NYT: Trump Must Resolve A Sensitive Political Issue
7- 30.12.2025, 9:33
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In the event of a peace agreement.
Hours before U.S. President Donald Trump and Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky meet on Sunday, Dec. 28, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov suggested that the two leaders could have saved their efforts, The New York Times.
The publication noted that Lavrov said Moscow would never agree to any agreement that would allow European troops to be stationed in Ukraine. At the same time, the deployment of European troops in Ukraine is a key element of the security plan that the Ukrainian president is drafting in talks with the Trump administration.
The piece said the presence of European troops would aim to prevent future invasions and control the situation in the so-called "demilitarized zone" of Donbass, which Russia is demanding that Ukraine give it without a fight.
The publication noted that Lavrov's tough comments reminded of three realities. First, Russia has not yet conceded anything, or at least it has not been officially asked to do so.
Adds that so far the negotiations between Ukraine and the US on the peace plan have centered on what compromises Zelensky is willing to make and what the US is willing to give in exchange. Russian President Vladimir Putin has only stated that he will never give in to his desire to seize more Ukrainian territory.
Second, as the publication points out, despite the complexity of territorial issues, Trump and Zelensky are still discussing the future of parts of eastern Ukraine and the fate of Europe's largest nuclear power plant.
It is emphasized that a long-term plan to deter Russia from another invasion is the most difficult task.
Third, the insistence on the part of the head of the White House to achieve "strategic stability" with Russia. The article notes that these words are specified in the US national security strategy. According to the publication, Trump understands this term not only as nuclear stability, but also normalization of diplomatic and economic relations.
To achieve such a reset, it will be necessary to lift all economic sanctions against Moscow, restore trade, free the flow of Russian oil and gas, and once again accept Russia as the West.
Trump, who has always been attracted by the prospect of deals with an economic component, has caught fire with this idea, although European leaders and a significant part of his own party consider it dangerous Moreover, the US president is already declaring that "there is no deadline for ending the war." It is added that this is the most detailed attempt at peace so far.
The piece notes that there is a sensitive political issue that Trump himself will eventually have to address in the US in the event of a peace agreement between Ukraine and Russia. Specifically, it concerns US commitments to provide Ukraine with military aid in the event of another Russian invasion.
The details of the security guarantees contained in the proposed peace agreement, worked out jointly by the delegations of Ukraine and the US, remain unknown. However, Zelensky's statement that they would be similar to NATO's Article 5 would represent a huge change in US policy.
It is noted that former US President Bark Obama was not prepared to go that far when Russia seized Crimea in 2014. Also subsequently, Joe Biden was hesitant to send troops to Ukraine in February 2022 when there was a full-scale Russian invasion of that country, although he did provide arms, ammunition and intelligence to Ukraine.
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