Ukraine against the ropes as U.S. backing falters after 3 years of war

Ukraine has led a firm fight against the invasion launched by its larger and more powerful neighbor in Russia, but things seem to be horribly badly when approaching the third anniversary of the war.

Kyiv’s relationship with the United States, its largest military funder since the war on February 24, 2022, quickly descended since the inauguration of President Donald Trump.

In the state that things, the prospect of American military aid seems dead in water and the probability increases that a “bad” peace agreement could be imposed on Ukraine in which it is forced to concede the territory in Russia.

Even the prospect of American support for a future peacekeeping mission seems unlikely, which makes Ukraine isolated and at sea after three long and bloody years of fighting Russia.

“The first talks in American-Russia ceasefies [this week] On Ukraine, he did not offer little reason for optimism for kyiv, “said Andrius Tursa, central and oriental advisor in Europe on Thursday, in a note.

“Washington has reported the desire to consider several Russian requirements that undermine Ukraine’s long-term security, while bilateral format and the defrost of American-Russia links raise concerns concerning a cease-fire agreement that could Be very unfavorable to Ukraine. sent by e-mail.

Tensions have reached a head this week while US officials restored relations with their Russian counterparts, excluding Ukraine from preliminary talks laying the basics of peace. Then, the already tense relationship between Trump and Zelenskyy went badly to piss on Wednesday while the latter described the American president as “living in a Russian disinformation bubble”.

Trump struck, The description of the leader of Ukraine in wartime was a “dictator without election” ,, “ Referring to the absence of a democratic vote in Ukraine since 2019. Ukraine says that it is impracticable to hold elections during a period of martial law and war.

Special American envoy for Ukraine and Russia, Keith Kellogg, continued his visit to Kyiv on Thursday, but there was already doubts about the value of the meeting, with Kellogg absent from very publicized talks between Russian and American officials Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, earlier a week. Ukraine said Kellogg had canceled a press conference that was to take place after the meeting.

Relations between the United States, Europe and Ukraine took an unexpected turn last week, Trump leaving allies on the stunned continent when he announced that he had spoken to Russian President Vladimir Putin and that leaders had accepted talks. Trump said he had then informed Zelenskyy of the situation.

Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth Caused More Building by Stating that it was “unrerealistic” for ukraine to Join nato, and that it that could not expect to regain russian-occupied territory it has been hast lost since 2014, when russia invaded the ukrainian black sea peninsula of Crimea.

Hegseth also declared that there was no way that American troops were deployed to help maintain peace in Ukraine in the context of any future agreement because he told European leaders that they should intensify and assume the responsibility for any peacekeeping. Until now, European officials have appeared divided on the proposal to send a peacekeeping force to Ukraine in a post-war scenario.

Adepts close to the evolution of war and geopolitical relations between the United States and its former allies, criticized the approach of Washington, saying that the United States had made too many concessions to Russia before the talks even started By removing the potential lever effect from Ukrainian NATO membership of the table.

“Trump conceded in advance and above all talks with Ukraine, which could have been part of a more balanced agreement,” said Holger Schmieding, chief economist of Berenberg Bank on Thursday.

“For all that is known publicly, Russia has made no concession in return. Putin’s maximalist demands years ago,” he said, adding that Trump “seems to have approved almost all the false Russian story on the worst European War since 1945 “.

Russia certainly seems to love the disharmony between the United States and Ukraine every minute.

Asked about the growing fracture between former partners Thursday, the Kremlin press secretary Dmitry Peskov said that the “kyiv diet likes to live donations [referring to military aid] And does not like to be held responsible. “”

Russia has spent a significant proportion of its time presenting the United States as its arc enemy, but itself has made a dramatic turnover with regard to its rhetoric and its public position on Washington now that Trump is in charge . Putin congratulated Russia-US on Wednesday to speak, saying that he assessed them “very” and that the atmosphere was “very friendly”.

“On the American side, there were completely different people who were open to the negotiation process without any bias, without any damage to what has been done in the past,” he said in comments translated by NBC News.

Putin also congratulated Trump for showing a “restraint” in the midst of what he described as “hysteria” by European leaders who are angry to be excluded from negotiations on the future of Ukraine.

While Ukraine confronts a potentially “dismal” result of war and a massive sacrifice of human lives after three long years of war which caused up to $ 500 billion in damage to the country, kyiv puts a courageous face on the situation, with Zelenskyy insisted, after his dramatic falls with Trump, that “with America and Europe, peace can be safer; and that is our objective”.

“It should not only be our goal, but a sharing with our partners. Especially as we approach the third anniversary of the beginning of this war – a war that we, in Ukraine, want to end in the first second. I am confident that We will end it, and with lasting peace.