While senior US officials are preparing to attend a meeting with a Russian delegation in Saudi Arabia on Sunday, the questions have left how the Trump administration pushes Moscow to extend a Premium.
Russian President Vladimir Putin approved this week to temporarily stop the strokes on the energy infrastructure in Ukraine, which includes the largest nuclear power plant in Europe, Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant.
Foreign Minister Marco Rubio and National Security Adviser Mike Waltz, who will travel to Jeddah in the negotiations, said the next step is to secure a ceasefire on the Black Sea.
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From the left, US National Security Adviser Mike Waltz, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan, and Saudi National Security Adviser Moussad bin Mohammed Al -Aiban, Foreign Minister Ukrainian, Saida, Saida, Saida, Saida, Saida. 2025. (Saul Loeb/Pool Photo via AP)
Moscow had previously agreed to a similar deal in which Turkey and the United Nations mediated in 2022, known as the Black Marine Cereal Initiative, which tried to secure Ukrainian exports of agricultural products to control global prices, but Putin withdrew from An agreement in 2023.
Security experts remain not convinced of that Putin can be trusted this time.
But there is another issue that appears to be on the negotiating table in the Middle East – the nuclear force of Ukraine.
With the president's focus on a metal deal with Ukraine, he has been interested in a new commercial project, “ownership” “electric power supplies and nuclear energy” KYIV.
“The American Royal for these plants will be the best protection of this infrastructure and support for Ukrainian energy infrastructure,” said a joint statement issued by Rubio and Waltz after Trump on Wednesday. Ukrainian President Voludmir Zelinski.
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When asked by Fox News Digital How Putin, who has it Make his attention At the Zaburisvia Power of Nuclear Energy, it will respond to Trump's new aspirations, Rebecca Kovler, a former intelligence officer in Dia and the author of “The Book of Play”, she does not think that it will continue well.
“It is certain that Putin does not support this idea and will try to sabotage such a deal,” said Kovler, who briefed NATO officials on Putin's ambitions in Ukraine years before the invasion of 2022. “Moreover, Zelinski's signature is unlikely to sign such a deal as well.
“Zelinski is likely to agree to control the nuclear power plant in Zaborisvia to the United States, which is currently under the control of Russian. The Russians will not voluntarily abandon the control of Zaborisvia.
The graph was established in Ankara, Türkiye, August 12, 2024. (Yasin Demirci/Anadolu via Getty Images)
It is not clear when Trump's interest in energy infrastructure began in Ukraine, although he seems to be linking his previous assurances that Ukraine will be better protected if American workers and companies operating within its borders have.
The basis of this argument was discussed due to the existence, remaining, American companies operating In Ukraine during the invasion of Russia. The discussion contributed to the bombing of an oval office between Trump and Zelinski last month.
Kovler said that Putin can look at the United States for the independence of the four nuclear power plants in Kiev as a “background” of the United States to expand some security guarantees for Ukraine and “a smart way to control Ukraine's nuclear ability, which the Russians believe can be heated.”
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“He will be seen as a threat to Russia,” Kovler said.
When asked how the United States' ownership of energy infrastructure in Ukraine could affect the negotiations, the head of the former CIA station, Dan Hoffman Fox News Digter, told that he was not convinced that he would have a significant impact on peace insurance.
“Show me the deal. We don't have a deal yet. We have a ceasefire that has been broken on the energy infrastructure,” Hoffmann noted. He pointed out that even after Putin agreed to stop Railway Energy System In the Dniproptrovsk area, which led to the power outages.
President Donald Trump will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the first day of the G20 summit in Osaka, Japan, June 28, 2019. (Kremlin Press Office/Bulletin/Anadolu/Getty Images)
Hoffman added, “It is just another discussion point. There are many other issues of great importance,” Hoffman added.
“He wants Ukraine. He wants it Glimpse the government. This is his goal, and Hoffman added. “Whatever the deals agreed upon in the short term, what he really wants to do is to destroy Ukraine's ability to deter in Russia in the future and give Russia the utmost advantage.
“At the present time, he can earn by negotiating what he cannot acquire in the battlefield.”
While a number of problems will be discussed, the former CIA head of the CIA said that the real key in completing any kind of ceasefire will need to be an authentic signal from Putin already wants the war to end.
“The big question that John Ratclifter has to answer is an explanation of me why Putin wants to stop the shooting. I would like to claim that he does not do it.” “There is no indication that he wants one.
Ukrainian soldiers are firing with Caesar 155 mm/52 -caliber gun towards Russian positions in a confrontation line in the Ukrainian region east of Donbas, June 15, 2022. (Aris Messenger/AFP via Getty Images)
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“If he wanted to stop the war and stop killing his people and stop leaking a lot of blood and treasure, he would have stopped it,” Hoffman said.
Hoffman said, when considering how most of the major wars end, history indicates that the war in Ukraine can only end except in the battlefield.
Hoffman said: “One of the two sides, one of the two sides, or both sides, does not have the means to fight anymore,” Hoffman said. “Thus wars end.”
