{"id":5630,"date":"2025-08-16T15:02:32","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T15:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friscotimes.org\/?p=5630"},"modified":"2025-08-16T15:02:32","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T15:02:32","slug":"trumps-ceasefire-pivot-will-have-caused-dismay-in-kyiv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friscotimes.org\/?p=5630","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s ceasefire pivot will have caused dismay in Kyiv"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div xmlns:default=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" id=\"\">\n<div xmlns:default=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" data-component=\"byline-block\" class=\"sc-3b6b161a-0 dEGcKf\">\n<div data-testid=\"byline-new\" class=\"sc-801dd632-0 eSlECZ\">\n<div data-testid=\"byline-new-contributors\" class=\"sc-801dd632-12 jSIeFi\">\n<div class=\"sc-801dd632-5 kRoBHa\">\n<div><span class=\"sc-801dd632-7 lasLGY\">Paul Adams<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>BBC Diplomatic Correspondent<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<figure>\n<div data-component=\"image-block\" class=\"sc-3b6b161a-0 gyQxwn\">\n<div data-testid=\"hero-image\" class=\"sc-d1200759-1 kycbVO\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.files.bbci.co.uk\/bbcdotcom\/web\/20250814-092707-b0ec5bc3fc-web-2.27.1-1\/grey-placeholder.png\" class=\"sc-d1200759-0 dkIvM hide-when-no-script\" aria-label=\"image unavailable\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1280px) 50vw, (min-width: 1008px) 66vw, 96vw\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/240\/cpsprodpb\/3d12\/live\/a71c63d0-7aaa-11f0-919c-e1195b87955e.jpg.webp 240w,https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/3d12\/live\/a71c63d0-7aaa-11f0-919c-e1195b87955e.jpg.webp 320w,https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/480\/cpsprodpb\/3d12\/live\/a71c63d0-7aaa-11f0-919c-e1195b87955e.jpg.webp 480w,https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/640\/cpsprodpb\/3d12\/live\/a71c63d0-7aaa-11f0-919c-e1195b87955e.jpg.webp 640w,https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/800\/cpsprodpb\/3d12\/live\/a71c63d0-7aaa-11f0-919c-e1195b87955e.jpg.webp 800w,https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/1024\/cpsprodpb\/3d12\/live\/a71c63d0-7aaa-11f0-919c-e1195b87955e.jpg.webp 1024w,https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/1536\/cpsprodpb\/3d12\/live\/a71c63d0-7aaa-11f0-919c-e1195b87955e.jpg.webp 1536w\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/480\/cpsprodpb\/3d12\/live\/a71c63d0-7aaa-11f0-919c-e1195b87955e.jpg.webp\" loading=\"eager\" alt=\"Getty Images US President Donald Trump and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky sitting side by side during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House on February 28\" class=\"sc-d1200759-0 dvfjxj\"\/><span class=\"sc-d1200759-2 gwFzuU\">Getty Images<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><figcaption class=\"sc-536eff7b-0 FPsqq\">Zelensky and Trump will meet on Monday<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\" class=\"sc-3b6b161a-0 dEGcKf\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">No deal in Alaska. It was always the most likely and, in the absence of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, perhaps the most desirable outcome.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">But US President Donald Trump&#8217;s pivot away from the need for an immediate ceasefire, which he said beforehand he wanted, will have caused profound dismay in Kyiv and around Europe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Russia&#8217;s position has long been that a ceasefire can only come in the context of a comprehensive settlement taking account of Russia&#8217;s interests &#8211; and inevitably implies Ukraine&#8217;s capitulation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">That&#8217;s the position that Trump, once again, appears to have endorsed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\" class=\"sc-3b6b161a-0 dEGcKf\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">&#8220;It was determined by all that the best way to end the horrific war between Russia and Ukraine,&#8221; he wrote on Truth Social, &#8220;is to go directly to a peace agreement.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Ceasefires, he noted, &#8220;often times do not hold up&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">This appears to fly in the face of Ukraine&#8217;s main demand, endorsed by all its European backers: that an unconditional ceasefire has to come first.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Crucially, it also buys Russia&#8217;s Vladimir Putin time on the battlefield, where he is convinced he&#8217;s winning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">&#8220;If Putin&#8217;s military objective was to avoid immediate constraints on Russian operations in Ukraine then he appears to have succeeded,&#8221; says Matthew Savill, the director of military sciences at the Royal United Services Institute.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">At their brief press appearance last night, Putin warned Ukraine and the Europeans not to &#8220;throw a wrench&#8221; in the works of the unspecified progress he and Trump had made.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">But that, for Kyiv and its allies, is precisely what Trump has done, undoing the achievements of what they all hoped was a successful preceding week of frantic diplomacy aimed at influencing the outcome in Alaska.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">It&#8217;s a reminder, as if one were needed, of Trump&#8217;s tendency to echo the views of the last person to have his ear.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">For a short while this morning, European leaders will have held their breath, waiting to see if their efforts had borne fruit or been cast aside.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">True to his word before the summit, Trump got on the phone to Zelensky. The two men spoke for an hour, before being joined by European leaders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Zelensky said the call was &#8220;long and substantive&#8221; and that he would travel to Washington on Monday for his first visit since the disastrous Oval Office encounter in February.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">A lot has happened since then, with Kyiv&#8217;s European allies working assiduously to repair the damage and school Zelensky in the best ways of handling the capricious and volatile occupant of the White House.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">&#8220;I am grateful for the invitation,&#8221; Zelensky posted, adding &#8220;it is important that America&#8217;s strength has an impact on the situation&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">But in a later post, after Trump&#8217;s statement on Truth Social, Zelensky adopted a more urgent tone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">&#8220;Killings must stop as soon as possible,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The fire must cease both on the battlefield and in the sky, as well as against our port infrastructure.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<figure>\n<div data-component=\"image-block\" class=\"sc-3b6b161a-0 hoQmHM\">\n<div data-testid=\"image\" class=\"sc-d1200759-1 kycbVO\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.files.bbci.co.uk\/bbcdotcom\/web\/20250814-092707-b0ec5bc3fc-web-2.27.1-1\/grey-placeholder.png\" class=\"sc-d1200759-0 dkIvM hide-when-no-script\" aria-label=\"image unavailable\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1280px) 50vw, (min-width: 1008px) 66vw, 96vw\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/240\/cpsprodpb\/56f1\/live\/2a5fe7d0-7aab-11f0-a34f-318be3fb0481.jpg.webp 240w,https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/56f1\/live\/2a5fe7d0-7aab-11f0-a34f-318be3fb0481.jpg.webp 320w,https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/480\/cpsprodpb\/56f1\/live\/2a5fe7d0-7aab-11f0-a34f-318be3fb0481.jpg.webp 480w,https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/640\/cpsprodpb\/56f1\/live\/2a5fe7d0-7aab-11f0-a34f-318be3fb0481.jpg.webp 640w,https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/800\/cpsprodpb\/56f1\/live\/2a5fe7d0-7aab-11f0-a34f-318be3fb0481.jpg.webp 800w,https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/1024\/cpsprodpb\/56f1\/live\/2a5fe7d0-7aab-11f0-a34f-318be3fb0481.jpg.webp 1024w,https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/1536\/cpsprodpb\/56f1\/live\/2a5fe7d0-7aab-11f0-a34f-318be3fb0481.jpg.webp 1536w\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/480\/cpsprodpb\/56f1\/live\/2a5fe7d0-7aab-11f0-a34f-318be3fb0481.jpg.webp\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Reuters US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin shake hands during a press conference following their meeting at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, in Anchorage, Alaska\" class=\"sc-d1200759-0 dvfjxj\"\/><span class=\"sc-d1200759-2 gwFzuU\">Reuters<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><figcaption class=\"sc-536eff7b-0 FPsqq\">On his way to Alaska, Trump said he wouldn&#8217;t be happy if he left without a ceasefire, but afterwards posted on social media that ceasefires &#8220;often times do not hold up&#8221;<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\" class=\"sc-3b6b161a-0 dEGcKf\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Europe&#8217;s &#8220;Trump whisperers&#8221; picked up this morning where they left off last week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">They highlighted the vital importance of involving Ukraine in conversations about its future but also paused, as they know they must regularly do, to show appreciation for Trump&#8217;s efforts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">&#8220;President Trump&#8217;s efforts have brought us closer than ever before to ending Russia&#8217;s illegal war in Ukraine,&#8221; said Sir Keir Starmer, the UK&#8217;s prime minister.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Starmer said he welcomed what he called the &#8220;openness&#8221; of the US, along with Europe, to provide &#8220;robust security guarantees&#8221; for Ukraine in the event of a deal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">If and when the fighting does eventually end, the precise nature of those guarantees will need to be spelled out in a great deal more detail than has so far been the case.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<figure>\n<div data-component=\"image-block\" class=\"sc-3b6b161a-0 hoQmHM\">\n<div data-testid=\"image\" class=\"sc-d1200759-1 kycbVO\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.files.bbci.co.uk\/bbcdotcom\/web\/20250814-092707-b0ec5bc3fc-web-2.27.1-1\/grey-placeholder.png\" class=\"sc-d1200759-0 dkIvM hide-when-no-script\" aria-label=\"image unavailable\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1280px) 50vw, (min-width: 1008px) 66vw, 96vw\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/240\/cpsprodpb\/fb4a\/live\/6ffc3a90-7aac-11f0-919c-e1195b87955e.jpg.webp 240w,https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/fb4a\/live\/6ffc3a90-7aac-11f0-919c-e1195b87955e.jpg.webp 320w,https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/480\/cpsprodpb\/fb4a\/live\/6ffc3a90-7aac-11f0-919c-e1195b87955e.jpg.webp 480w,https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/640\/cpsprodpb\/fb4a\/live\/6ffc3a90-7aac-11f0-919c-e1195b87955e.jpg.webp 640w,https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/800\/cpsprodpb\/fb4a\/live\/6ffc3a90-7aac-11f0-919c-e1195b87955e.jpg.webp 800w,https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/1024\/cpsprodpb\/fb4a\/live\/6ffc3a90-7aac-11f0-919c-e1195b87955e.jpg.webp 1024w,https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/1536\/cpsprodpb\/fb4a\/live\/6ffc3a90-7aac-11f0-919c-e1195b87955e.jpg.webp 1536w\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/480\/cpsprodpb\/fb4a\/live\/6ffc3a90-7aac-11f0-919c-e1195b87955e.jpg.webp\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Getty Images Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz face a screen during a video conference of European leaders with the US President on the Ukraine war ahead of the summit between the US and Russian leaders\" class=\"sc-d1200759-0 dvfjxj\"\/><span class=\"sc-d1200759-2 gwFzuU\">Getty Images<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><figcaption class=\"sc-536eff7b-0 FPsqq\">European leaders held a virtual meeting with Trump on Wednesday ahead of the US president&#8217;s meeting with Putin<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\" class=\"sc-3b6b161a-0 dEGcKf\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Despite Europe&#8217;s emerging role as Ukraine&#8217;s principal military, economic and political backer, everyone knows Ukraine&#8217;s future security cannot really be assured without the substantive backing of the US.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">In her own comments on the Alaska summit, Italy&#8217;s leader, Giorgia Meloni, said guarantees for Ukraine could be &#8220;inspired by Nato&#8217;s Article 5&#8221; &#8211; the principle of collective defence signed on to by all Nato members.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Several reports this morning suggested the idea of guarantees outside Nato but equivalent to Article 5 were discussed during the latest call between Trump and European leaders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">But in the wake of Trump&#8217;s apparent about-face this morning, you can almost hear the sound of minds spinning across European capitals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">In London, the government appears to be putting on a brave face.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">&#8220;If you can get that all done [a ceasefire and a peace agreement] in one go or in quick succession that&#8217;s obviously a good thing,&#8221; said a senior Downing Street source. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">&#8220;But we all want to see the fighting stop&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<figure>\n<div data-component=\"image-block\" class=\"sc-3b6b161a-0 dFZIgd\">\n<div data-testid=\"image\" class=\"sc-d1200759-1 kycbVO\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.files.bbci.co.uk\/bbcdotcom\/web\/20250814-092707-b0ec5bc3fc-web-2.27.1-1\/grey-placeholder.png\" class=\"sc-d1200759-0 dkIvM hide-when-no-script\" aria-label=\"image unavailable\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1280px) 50vw, (min-width: 1008px) 66vw, 96vw\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/240\/cpsprodpb\/18a4\/live\/a23676c0-7aab-11f0-919c-e1195b87955e.jpg.webp 240w,https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/18a4\/live\/a23676c0-7aab-11f0-919c-e1195b87955e.jpg.webp 320w,https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/480\/cpsprodpb\/18a4\/live\/a23676c0-7aab-11f0-919c-e1195b87955e.jpg.webp 480w,https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/640\/cpsprodpb\/18a4\/live\/a23676c0-7aab-11f0-919c-e1195b87955e.jpg.webp 640w,https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/800\/cpsprodpb\/18a4\/live\/a23676c0-7aab-11f0-919c-e1195b87955e.jpg.webp 800w,https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/1024\/cpsprodpb\/18a4\/live\/a23676c0-7aab-11f0-919c-e1195b87955e.jpg.webp 1024w,https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/1536\/cpsprodpb\/18a4\/live\/a23676c0-7aab-11f0-919c-e1195b87955e.jpg.webp 1536w\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/480\/cpsprodpb\/18a4\/live\/a23676c0-7aab-11f0-919c-e1195b87955e.jpg.webp\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Getty Images US President Donald Trump waving as he boards Air Force One to depart Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson \" class=\"sc-d1200759-0 dvfjxj\"\/><span class=\"sc-d1200759-2 gwFzuU\">Getty Images<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\" class=\"sc-3b6b161a-0 dEGcKf\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Trump has walked away from the idea of an immediate ceasefire, no doubt informed by Putin&#8217;s highly contentious account of how ceasefires broke down in the past.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The quasi-summit in Alaska already represented a cost-free win for Putin. The return of an international pariah to the international stage (albeit one festooned with unambiguous displays of American military might at the Elmendorf-Richardson airbase) and some of the trappings of a state visit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The threat of increased US sanctions on Moscow receded too, with Trump saying it may be two or three weeks before he even has to think about it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">All this raises a host of questions about what may greet Zelensky, both on Monday in Washington and when he finally finds himself in the room with Putin and Trump.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">What advice does Trump have for the Ukrainian leader, Fox&#8217;s Sean Hannity asked.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">&#8220;Make a deal,&#8221; came the blunt reply. &#8220;Russia&#8217;s a very big power and they&#8217;re not.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Adams BBC Diplomatic Correspondent Getty Images Zelensky and Trump will meet on Monday No deal in Alaska. 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