“Zelensky’s task is not how to inspire the world, but how to keep it on the side of Ukraine.”, – WRITE: www.unian.ua
Zelensky’s task is not how to inspire the world, but how to keep it on the side of Ukraine.
Zelensky faced his greatest fear – war without US support / photo president.gov.uaThree years after a full -scale invasion, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy faced his greatest fear – war without supporting the US, Financial Times writes.
“A complicated political battle awaits him. The task is not to inspire the world, but to keep it on the side of Ukraine … Now that the future of the country hangs on the hair, the actor who became president, is in the play Another kind – in the way where the life of Trump rewrites the script for him, “the newspaper writes.
The conflict on the subsoil agreementAs FT writes, Zelensky conflict with Finance Minister Trump Scott Bessent because of the details of a proposal that demanded 50 percent of the rights to valuable minerals of Ukraine to return $ 500 billion – allegedly for past military assistance, a price tag that Trump seemed to have taken out of air . At the same time, high -ranking Ukrainian officials told Financial Times, which the Bessent demanded from Zelensky to sign the agreement right there right there, and then Zelensky was “very angry”.
“The Ukrainian president refused, after which he told reporters, standing near a markedly excited Bessent, who trembled his hands, that Kiev would take an agreement to Munich, where he will be discussed with Vice President Jay Di Vance and other American officials,” the publication wrote.
As of Sunday, the agreement was still not agreed, even after the negotiations that lasted at night for several days. At the same time, Trump’s recent verbal war with Zelensky is considered in Kiev as an attempt to force Ukraine to approve the mineral resource agreement. Yes, the US President called his Ukrainian colleague a “dictator without an election” and mistakenly accused him of solving war. Trump also crashed on the popularity of Zelensky, mistakenly stating that the rating of approval of the Ukrainian President had fallen only to 4 percent.
“Zelensky, whose own team has stated that he, like Trump, can be vulnerable and could respond badly to criticism, then collapsed on Trump, saying that the US president lives in the Russian” misinformation bubble, “FT writes.
At the same time, a former high -ranking Ukrainian official who worked closely with the President, said in a comment to the publication that “Zelensky from time to time allows his emotions to make decisions.”
“He was in trouble because he gave an honest and immediate answer,” he said.
Lack of tight connections The head of the Presidential Administration Andriy Yermak said FT that it was not easy to establish close ties with the new administration.
According to Yermak, he maintained contacts with the national security advisor Mike Waltts and a special Trump envoy in Ukraine Kellog. However, these relationships are still new and far from the strong connection that Jermak has established with Jake Sullivan, a national security advisor to the former US President Joe Biden, whom the head of OP often called his “close friend”, FT writes.
One of the former government officials noted that “it does not look like Trump and Trump’s people.” Yermak has “invested all the forces” in relations with the former State Secretary of Trump Mike Pompeo, and Zelensky listens to the Senator-Republican Lindsey Graham, “but his influence is overestimated,” he added.
At the same time, the publication emphasizes, such a confrontational position of Trump not only brings problems, but also has an inadvertent positive effect. Instead of isolation of Zelensky, his statements may contribute to the growth of internal support of the Ukrainian leader.
Ukraine and the USA are Zelensky’s statementsEarlier, the President of Ukraine told why he refused to sign a mineral agreement with the United States. According to him, the document did not provide specific security guarantees for Ukraine.
He also stated that someone would disinfect Donald Trump on elections in Ukraine.
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