Zelenskyy accuses Putin of being ‘scared’ on peace talks

Yet, “what looks like a growing consensus in the West that some kind of peace talks between Russia and Ukraine are not taking a closer one, does not always take into account whether Russia and Ukraine can see negotiations as viable or even useful,” Keir Giles, told a defense analyst in London’s Chatham House think tank to NBC News.

While European leaders have accelerated the planning of a worst case where the Kremlin pushes troops further into the continent and Washington does not help with their help, Trump has made ever -stronger threats to his Russian colleague.

Trump’s claim that he would end the Ukraine war in one day after joining, not happening even though members of his national security team have recognized the difficulties of mediating a possible peace agreement in recent weeks.

“Let’s set it to 100 days and move back all the way back and find out that we can do this in the short term to make sure the solution is solid, it’s sustainable and that this war ends, so we stop the carnage,” Retired General Control Keith Kellogg, Trump’s choice to act as special envoy to Ukraine, Fox News told last month.

Still, the conflict has shown no evidence of dragging down despite Trump’s departure from the warmer feelings he conveyed during his first period.

“If we don’t make a ‘deal’ and soon,” Trump said last week in a social media post, “I have no choice but to put high levels of taxes, customs and sanctions against everything sold by Russia to USA and various other participating countries. “

This shift in tone against Russia is a “wildcard” in the efforts of the Trump administration to end the war, Giles said, and “a striking and remarkable shift from his first term of office.”

“Observers of Trump have noticed that what he says is not always translated directly into what he instructs his administration to do,” he told NBC News, adding that even a superficial change is “a cause of Ukraine and its Friends to have limited optimism.

Deputy Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov told Russian State Press Monday That no one from the Trump administration had reached the Kremlin so far to set up a meeting with Putin.

On his part, Zelenskyy Trump’s threats of sanctions called “fair and fair” in an interview on Fox News on Tuesday.

Meanwhile, Russian troops continue to achieve territorial gains in Ukraine after caught the village of Dvorichna in northeastern Kharkiv, the army said Tuesday.