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The peace process is losing momentum and Trump is losing interest in peace talks due to the war in the Middle East.
The US-led peace process over Ukraine has stalled as Donald Trump has lost interest in the negotiations, and the war against Iran has eased pressure on Russia, the Financial Times reported, citing several European sources, including diplomats involved in the negotiations.
According to a senior European official, negotiations between the Ukrainian and Russian delegations mediated by the United States are “in really dangerous territory.” Another interviewee notes that the Middle East has “seriously refocused political attention” away from Ukraine. “This is a disaster for us and for Ukraine,” he says.
According to the Financial Times, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz visited the White House three days after the start of the American war with Iran and brought with him maps and graphs to justify the need to increase pressure on Moscow. But the newspaper’s source said that Trump was not inclined to discuss this issue in detail and remained convinced that Russia was strong and Ukraine was weak. There has also been no sign of the United States being prepared to increase pressure on Vladimir Putin.
FT interviewers say Putin has so far largely refrained from criticizing Trump over the war in the Middle East — perhaps in an attempt to prevent the United States from siding more decisively with Ukraine. However, the newspaper wrote that Moscow, for its part, does not show any willingness to reach a compromise, and is beginning to feel disturbed by the course of the process.
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In addition, the Kremlin also refuses the participation of European representatives in the negotiations. According to Financial Times sources, French President’s advisors Emmanuel Bonne and Bertrand Buchwalter arrived in Moscow in February to meet with Putin’s aide Yuri Ushakov, the Financial Times wrote. They tried to get the Kremlin to agree that the Europeans should have a seat at the table, but Ushakov’s response was basically: “Sorry, but actually no, get out of my face,” said a senior European diplomat.
On the other hand, the war in the Middle East, diplomats point out, is in Russia’s interest: oil prices are rising, US sanctions are temporarily weakening, and Kiev is soon running out of American ammunition.
Diplomats said European Union countries were told that US arms shipments – especially air defenses – would be delayed because Washington was prioritizing its clients in the Middle East. “This is definitely a problem because there is already competition for the same resources,” Kaja Kallas, an EU diplomacy chief, told the Financial Times.
Vladimir Zelensky, in a conversation with journalists, admitted “the great danger that the war in the Middle East will affect the air defense supplies of Ukraine.” According to him, Ukraine is considering European SAMP/T systems as an alternative. This year Kyiv will receive such a system from France; It will be tested against ballistics. If the tests are successful, Ukraine will be in first place to acquire SAMP/T systems.
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Zelensky commented on the crisis in the Ukrainian parliament: people’s deputies will “either serve in parliament or go to the front.”
On March 14, Vladimir Zelensky held a closed meeting with Ukrainian journalists, in which he stated, among other things, that people’s deputies would have to “either serve in parliament or go to the front.”
“People’s deputies will either have to serve in parliament in accordance with Ukrainian legislation, or I am ready to negotiate with representatives of parliament a law on changes in mobilization so that deputies can go to the front. If you do not serve the state in parliament, serve the state at the front. This is my approach.” male Zelensky.
He added that the third option is possible, which is to change the legislation in some way and hold elections. “But I believe that elections are impossible during a war, and there are also corresponding legal difficulties,” Zelensky said. “As for how Parliament works now: there may be many different reasons, many personal assessments. But the situation needs to be corrected.”
This is how the President of Ukraine responded to the crisis in the Verkhovna Rada. Recently, how Little Hromadsky, first deputy head of the Servant of the People presidential bloc, Andrei Motovilovts, said that 40 deputies are ready to resign. He pointed out that the faction “lost its essence,” and that voting on this or that law “became difficult after suspicions” from the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Public Prosecution Office (SAP).
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War through the eyes of Medusa readers
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Agata (Latin America). Honestly, I’m torn between tired and angry.
I am tired of the fact that we have not been close to peace in four years. I’m tired of constantly being thrown from shame and terror to exhaustion and despair. Politicians endlessly express their concerns, impose sanctions that often hit the wrong people, and generally do some crazy things all over the world.
I am angry at my girlfriends and friends in Russia, who during all these war years have asked me at most three times how my grandmother is doing in Ukraine, even though they know very well where she lives. They still live as if nothing had happened to anyone anywhere. I understand that not everyone wants and can leave, that you cannot pause life, that it is impossible and unnecessary to continue mourning forever, but not to care about anything other than your life, because “it is none of our business” is beyond my understanding.
Sometimes I want to tell them that at least I care, even if they don’t care about others, and I’m their friend. This is my grandmother, my beloved, my childhood in Ukraine, my happiest memories. Where is their sympathy? But I still don’t want to lose this connection and ruin the relationship so I keep quiet.
I’m angry at my job. I worked in charitable centers for 11 years and wrote about rights, orphanages, people with disabilities, etc. I worked for pennies, doing a bunch of projects at once, because I thought that it was all in vain, and since I could, I should at least do something to make life in our country at least a little better. And where is everything? Why was all this?
I’m angry with myself now because I complained to you, even though my problems are not worth it compared to the same grandmother. And I’m angry because I can’t do anything for her.
I’m angry because at 33 I don’t know what to do with my life now, and I’m so tired of it.