BB.lv: Kyiv concerning the plan of Trump’s advisers: the world have to be truthful

Any peace plan to finish Russia’s battle in opposition to Ukraine have to be primarily based on worldwide legislation, and the world have to be simply. This was acknowledged on Tuesday, June 25, by the adviser to the top of the Workplace of the President of Ukraine, Mikhail Podolyak, commenting on the plan for resolving the army battle in Ukraine, offered by two advisers to former US President Donald Trump – retired Lieutenant Common Keith Kellogg and Fred Fleitz.

“Ukraine has a fully clear understanding, and it’s spelled out within the peace system proposed by President Vladimir Zelensky. It clearly states: peace can solely be truthful, and peace can solely be primarily based on worldwide legislation,” Podolyak stated in an interview with Reuters.

As Podolyak famous, freezing the battle on the present entrance strains can be “unusual” as a result of Russia has violated worldwide legislation and is on Ukrainian territory. The battle, he added, can’t finish with out holding Russia accountable. Podolyak additionally referred to as the ceasefire circumstances put ahead by Russian President Vladimir Putin meaningless.

Peace talks with Russia in change for weapons

The day earlier than, Reuters reported that Donald Trump’s advisers offered him with a plan to finish the battle between Russia and Ukraine if he wins the presidential election.

The doc stipulates that Ukraine will obtain extra American weapons, however provided that it enters into peace negotiations with the Russian Federation. On the identical time, the US will warn Moscow that refusal to barter will result in elevated army assist for Ukraine from the US.

The doc additionally assumes a ceasefire on the precise entrance strains and thereby sustaining Russian management over the occupied Ukrainian territories. In line with Fred Fleitz, Ukraine is unlikely to have the ability to regain efficient management over all of its territory within the close to future.

One other incentive for Russia to take part within the negotiation course of could possibly be a promise from the US to postpone Ukraine’s membership in NATO for an extended interval, the authors of the plan imagine.

Ukraine guidelines out territorial concessions

In flip, the Ukrainian authorities exclude territorial concessions, and as a precondition for beginning peace negotiations with the Russian Federation, they put ahead a requirement to revive the borders of Ukraine to the time of 1991.

Donald Trump has repeatedly stated that if he wins the upcoming presidential election, he’ll have the ability to obtain a peace settlement between Russia and Ukraine “inside 24 hours.” Trump has not stated how precisely he plans to do that.