Zelensky Admits Defeat: "The War Will End Faster" Under Trump Administration
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky had admitted that the war with Russia would end within weeks of President Trump entering the White House in January.
By Tyler Durden
November 16, 2024
Update(1120ET):
Merely a year ago or less, Ukrainian officials and Kiev's staunchest supporters essentially considered it 'treason' to even broach the possibility of peace talks with Russia.
President Zelensky had frequently made it clear that he would not consider it so long as Putin is in power.
But on Friday, Zelensky issued some remarks which constitute a glaring 180-degree reversal, in the wake of President Trump's election victory, on the prospect of peace in Ukraine.
Zelensky stated that under the Trump administration "the war will end faster". He laid out the following in a fresh interview, according to a regional source:
As for the earlier Putin-Scholz phone call, it ended on a note that the two leaders should talk again soon. Their discussion has been described as "frank" and "detailed" concerning the Ukraine conflict.
Putin conveyed to the German leader that Russia-German relations have seen "unprecedented degradation"Â - according to TASS.
Below is the call summary/readout from the Russian side:
And most importantly the two expressed a desire for formal Ukraine talks:
All of this - especially Zelensky's apparent change of heart (or else realization that the war is unwinnable at this point) - points to strong momentum that talks could get underway before President Trump is even sworn in on Jan.20.
Zelensky, when he last met President Trump in New York, had described that Ukraine has "been through hell".
Potential near-term Russia-Ukraine negotiations to end the war continue to move toward reality in the wake of President Donald Trump's election win.Â
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Russian President Vladmir Putin are planning to hold their first phone call in almost two years on Friday.Â
Scholz spoke with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday, with the German chancellor’s spokesman saying the two discussed working "toward a return to peace in Europe."
The last phone call between Putin and Scholz was all the way back in December 2022. Scholz made the call to urge that Russian troops leave Ukraine and return home, and there's been radio silence between the two throughout the war.
Since then, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock has insisted that Putin was "no longer even prepared" to speak with the chancellor, amid Berlin ramping up is military support for Ukraine and drastically expanding its defense budget, reversing a posture of historic neutrality.
France's Macron had been the only European leader to hold semi-regular contact with Putin throughout the opening months of the war, but he came under severe criticism from some corners of Europe for doing so.
But the drastic political change in Washington is clearly changing the mood in war-weary Europe as well. Now, even Ukraine is getting the memo - that there's about to be a different track.
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