Putin’s goals in Trump’s talks on Ukraine

President Trump says he is focusing on stopping the “March of Death” in Ukraine “as soon as possible.”

But for President Vladimir F. Putin from Russia, stopping talks with Mr. Trump is a way to achieve much broader goals.

Russian and American officials in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia are scheduled to meet on Monday to deepen their negotiations on the technical details of the partial ceasefire to stop the attacks on energy and ships in the Black Sea. While Ukraine says it is ready to get a full truce, Mr. Putin explained that he would seek A wide range of privileges Firstly.

The result: It seems that the Kremlin is determined to press the largest possible number of benefits from Mr. Trump’s desire to the peace agreement in Ukraine, even with the slowing negotiations. Since the best relations with Washington are an economic and geopolitical blessing – which may even be achieved as Russian missiles continue to bomb Ukraine.

Last week, the interviews with large figures from foreign policy at a security conference in New Delhi have suggested that the Kremlin witnessed negotiations on Ukraine and the United States’ ties to Russia as working on two separate tracks. Mr. Putin continues to search for a long -term victory in Ukraine, but he is a ceasefire on Mr. Trump to seize the benefits of melting ice with Washington.

Viacislav Nikonov, Vice -Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the lower parliament of the Russian parliament, said that Mr. Trump and Mr. Putin are developing a “bilateral agenda” that was not linked to Ukraine.

“Ukraine runs its course,” Mr. Nikonov said in an interview on the sidelines of the New Delhi conference. “The attack is continuing,” added Mr. Nikonov. “But I think it is for Putin, the relations with America are more important than the issue of Ukraine specifically.”

By engaging with Mr. Trump, it seems that Moscow’s thinking may go, it can open economic benefits such as Russia Boeing Jets and large -scale geopolitical gains such as a decrease in the presence of NATO in Europe. What is less clear is whether Mr. Trump will use these hopes as a financial lever to obtain a better deal for Ukraine, and whether he will lose his patience with Mr. Putin.

Alexander A. Denkin, an international affairs specialist advises the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs: “Mr. Trump loves fast deals.” “If he sees that there are great difficulties, he may be disappointed and this problem is sought.”

As a result, Mr. Putin appears to be withdrawing all stations to throw the interest of Mr. Trump.

“A meeting in Moscow with the White House envoy Steve Witkev this month, Mr. Putin handed” a beautiful picture of President Trump “commissioned by a Russian artist.

“It was a generous moment,” Mr. Whitkov told the former host of Fox News Taker Carlson.

In Ukraine, Mr. Putin did not show any sign of budging from his distant goals-a guarantee that Ukraine will never join NATO, and the Western alliance in Central and Eastern Europe has decreased, limiting the army in Ukraine, and the level of some influence on local policy in Ukraine.

Fyodor Fotolovsky, director of the Institute of World Economics and International Relations in Moscow, said Russia will seek a “road map” to a broader deal before approving any ceasefire.

He also said that Russia could accept the United Nations peacekeeping force in Ukraine as long as it does not include forces from NATO.

“For Russia, a long -term perspective is more valuable than tactical ceasefire,” said Mr. Fotolovsky, who works on the counseling councils in the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Security. He added: “We can appear in a model that allows Russia and the United States, Russia and NATO, to coexist without interfering in the areas of each other’s interests.”

To achieve such a deal, Russia is Attracting the concentration of Mr. Trump, thinking about business. Mr. Fotolovski stressed that a wide agreement on Ukraine was a prerequisite for cooperation between the United States and the Russians, and that Mr. Trump, as a businessman, said that Russian origins were currently denied by their value.

Mr. Dynkin, Russian International Affairs, said that the Kremlin can remove the United States from the list of “non -friendly countries” – a classification that restricts American companies’ ability to do business in Russia.

He said that Moscow was especially interested in negotiations on the aviation sector, given the challenges facing Russian airlines in the service of its American -made planes. He said that the United States could allow the export of aircraft spare parts and the return of direct flights to Moscow. Russia can let US Airlines fly over Siberia, Right, Russia withdrew in 2022.

Anastasia Lee Kochova, Dean of International Affairs at the Upper Economy School in Moscow, said it is unlikely that Mr. Trump will provide rapid and long -term penalties.

But she said that a domain in relations with the United States could lead to a decrease in the enforcement of sanctions and make it easy for Russian companies to operate worldwide by sending a sign that Russia is no longer a problematic partner.

She said, “Such toxins, can be useful and expand our list of possibilities,” she said.