Trump breaks the taboo of negotiations over Ukraine’s territories
The US president will discuss the distribution of Ukrainian assets with Vladimir Putin on Tuesday to convince the Russian leader to accept a ceasefire
There was a particularly tense moment at the March 11 meeting in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, between the U.S. and Ukrainian delegations. It came when White House National Security Adviser Mike Waltz laid a map of Ukraine on the table to draw a diagram of the territorial division that could be negotiated with Russia to end the war. The Ukrainian team, led by Andriy Yermak, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s right-hand man, asked that this matter be left for later, but his interlocutors replied that it should be done now. This has been revealed by several Ukrainian media outlets that have spoken with witnesses of the meeting, although it has not been reported where Waltz’s pen passed. Donald Trump and his confidants have emphasized every day since then that Ukraine must accept that it will have to make territorial concessions.
