A certain clarity is emerging. But it is still very fragile. What do we have today?
Today, there is a statement. From U.S. President Donald Trump regarding his entire address to Congress during his speech, specifically concerning Ukraine.
The fact that he received a letter from Ukrainian President Zelensky and that he accepted this letter with approval. That is, the words chosen by the President of Ukraine are acceptable and fall within the framework of the policy pursued by the President of the United States.
Does this mean that we can hope for a quick ceasefire? It means that a process has begun.
The ball is now in the court of the American administration.
The fact is that stopping the war and achieving a ceasefire—which is obvious to all world leaders of the Western world, in particular those on whom the support that allows Ukraine to remain in a strong position within the framework of this ceasefire proposal depends—will be impossible without decisive actions from the United States against Russia. It is necessary to force Russia to also agree to the terms of a global agreement.
Moreover, these terms must not show Western weakness and must not harm Ukraine in order for them to be acceptable.
So, what do we have? The visit of President Zelensky to Washington has been announced. And there is an important statement that the President of France and the British Prime Minister plan to accompany the President of Ukraine—this is good news. Such a European delegation will make the negotiations stable enough. And in fact, it will become a kind of major summit of the most powerful Western countries—this is very important. Analysts say that 7 to 10 days is the period within which this visit could take place.
An important announcement is that the British Prime Minister himself held lengthy consultations with Ukrainian President Zelensky, and they developed a position. Starmer presented his arguments on how and why it is necessary to resolve the conflict that arose in the Oval Office.
And, in principle, we are seeing the result. This is Zelensky’s tweet.
Now it is necessary to monitor Russia’s actions. How will Russia act? In what format will it act? What overt and covert measures will the United States take?
None of the military analysts, none of the economists involved in the development of military planning for the European Union and the United States, took seriously the statement from the head of the European Commission about the need to allocate a budget of 800 billion euros. This statement was met with sarcastic reactions. The project is unrealistic, especially since decades are mentioned in the plan.
Also, a large number of materials are being published regarding the possibility of deploying British and French troops either along the front line or at a certain distance. This suggests, along with other direct and indirect information being received, that such plans are currently not at the stage of implementation but at the stage of active preparation—active preparation so that when a decision is made, the implementation can occur as quickly as possible.
I will repeat once again that measures concerning only Ukraine will not stop this war.
Donald Trump will need to use serious arguments against Russia, and we will see this. Also, in the next ten days, actions will be taken that will make it impossible for Russia to refuse to cease hostilities.
The situation is quite complex.
We can only state that hope has appeared compared to yesterday. A tunnel of interaction has emerged between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky—this is extremely important.
At the very least, according to official statements, we can see that Europe has maximally facilitated this, in a certain sense, reconciliation of positions.
We will monitor the situation. Any delay in this process will lead to even greater problems in its implementation. I am talking about the ceasefire and, of course, the legal and factual guarantees that Ukraine must receive.
A ceasefire is of paramount importance.
We must understand that no halt in hostilities should give Russia the opportunity to improve its positions and quickly resume fighting.
And we wish success to all parties involved. Today, I can say that there is once again a continuum of unified partnership between the U.S., Ukraine, the U.K., and France.
It is necessary for this continuum to only strengthen and not collapse.
