{"id":5631,"date":"2025-03-02T09:44:08","date_gmt":"2025-03-02T09:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asadmirza.in\/?p=5631"},"modified":"2025-03-02T09:44:09","modified_gmt":"2025-03-02T09:44:09","slug":"peace-talks-to-end-russia-ukraine-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asadmirza.in\/?p=5631","title":{"rendered":"Peace talks to end Russia-Ukraine War"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pvc_clear\"><\/div><p id=\"pvc_stats_5631\" class=\"pvc_stats all  \" data-element-id=\"5631\" style=\"\"><i class=\"pvc-stats-icon medium\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" version=\"1.0\" viewBox=\"0 0 502 315\" preserveAspectRatio=\"xMidYMid meet\"><g transform=\"translate(0,332) scale(0.1,-0.1)\" fill=\"\" stroke=\"none\"><path d=\"M2394 3279 l-29 -30 -3 -207 c-2 -182 0 -211 15 -242 39 -76 157 -76 196 0 15 31 17 60 15 243 l-3 209 -33 29 c-26 23 -41 29 -80 29 -41 0 -53 -5 -78 -31z\"\/><path d=\"M3085 3251 c-45 -19 -58 -50 -96 -229 -47 -217 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https:\/\/asadmirza.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/e4-768x614.jpg 768w, https:\/\/asadmirza.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/e4.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/clarionindia.net\/peace-talks-to-end-russia-ukraine-war\/\n\">https:\/\/clarionindia.net\/peace-talks-to-end-russia-ukraine-war\/<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sentinelassam.com\/more-news\/editorial\/peace-talks-to-end-russia-ukraine-war\n\">https:\/\/www.sentinelassam.com\/more-news\/editorial\/peace-talks-to-end-russia-ukraine-war<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/raksha-anirveda.com\/peace-talks-to-end-russia-ukraine-war\/\n\">https:\/\/raksha-anirveda.com\/peace-talks-to-end-russia-ukraine-war\/<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pressreader.com\/india\/brighter-kashmir\/20250219\/281968908414150?srsltid=AfmBOopCE5zj5le_3yT7WBRv-vd4bGlaHUMvlD8ck5pDIK1CdH4g6Ye8\n\">https:\/\/www.pressreader.com\/india\/brighter-kashmir\/20250219\/281968908414150?srsltid=AfmBOopCE5zj5le_3yT7WBRv-vd4bGlaHUMvlD8ck5pDIK1CdH4g6Ye8<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Peace talks to end Russia-Ukraine war<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>By now the world should have strapped up to witness a completely unpredictable and more dictatorial American foreign policy, dictated by the 47th President of the United States, Donald Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Coming soon after the preposterous Gaza Ceasefire Plan, Trump, who had promised to get the Russia-Ukraine conflict ended within a day of his assuming the American presidency, last week unveiled a controversial new Peace Plan to get the three-year-old war ended, denying Ukraine any seat at the negotiating table. After his telephone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday last, he also said that he could meet Russian President Vladimir Putin \u201cvery soon\u201d as officials from the countries prepare to meet in Saudi Arabia for talks on ending the war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As expected, Ukraine immediately rejected these talks, apparently at which no Ukrainian negotiator would be present. Neither Ukrainian nor European officials are participating in the talks in Riyadh, though US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Sunday stressed that Ukraine and Europe would both have to be involved in any \u201creal negotiations\u201d that result from the meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In an interview with NBC\u2019s Meet the Press programme, which aired on Sunday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he would \u201cnever accept\u201d any agreement reached without his country\u2019s involvement. \u201cThis is the war in Ukraine, against us, and it\u2019s our human losses,\u201d Zelenskyy had said earlier while attending the Munich Security Conference on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zelenskyy has called for the creation of a unified European army, arguing that the continent must strengthen its military capabilities considering the ever-changing US foreign policy, bulldozing and destroying all set norms and precedents. Similarly, addressing the Munich conference on Saturday, European foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas drew parallels between the Trump administration\u2019s approach and the failure of appeasement in the run-up to World War II.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The choice by the Trump administration of Saudi Arabia as the location for key talks on Ukraine underscores how far the Kingdom has come diplomatically from the near pariah state it became after the murder of the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018. The shadow that cast over the country and its de facto leader, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in particular, appears to have been lifted by the new Trump administration apparently to influence MbS to invest $ One Trillion in the US economy. The whole plan seems to overshadow the European partners of the US, who had at America\u2019s behest, upped their monetary and military support to Ukraine. In addition, the whole mechanism seems to undermine the set diplomatic processes and will be led by one man and his cronies only.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even Republican lawmakers are grappling with an effective response to President Trump\u2019s seeming readiness to bend to Russia\u2019s demands on Ukraine\u2019s future. Their reactions &#8211; which range from outright alarm to careful soft-pedalling &#8211; signal the challenges GOP policymakers face as they try to make sense of the administration\u2019s actions and justify them to European allies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Moreover, the details of the proposed plan have been leaked by Trump\u2019s own advisors. It involves the return of all territory seized illegally by Russia and security guarantees backed by the US, preferably through NATO.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, the new American defence secretary, Pete Hegseth, told his NATO counterparts that the US no longer saw European security as its main priority. He added that while Ukraine could expect its security guarantees, these would be provided by Europeans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Marina Hyde, writing for The Guardian opines that Putin is no doubt delighted to be treated with respect by Trump. But he is only being offered a draw when he still wants a victory. The US is proposing an early ceasefire largely based on the current line of contact between the two sets of forces, to be followed by negotiations on a longer-term peace settlement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To be sure, this would allow him to hold a large chunk of Ukrainian land, but there would also be the prospect of Ukraine reconstituting its forces with Western support to return to the fight later. Russia would need to subsidise and police occupied territory, much of which has been ruined by a series of destructive battles, and defend a long border, Marina commented further.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In one stroke Trump has relegated the US\u2019 European allies with complete disdain, and Europe has reacted with barely concealed dismay. The EU\u2019s top diplomat, Kaja Kallas, reaffirmed her support for Ukraine, noting that the Europeans were \u201clooking forward to discussing the way ahead together with our American allies.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Putin would relish a summit with Trump, preferably in Moscow, perhaps around the time of the 80th anniversary of Russia\u2019s Victory Day celebrations in early May. He has long sought a direct engagement with Washington that would effectively sideline Europe and, crucially, Ukraine. A summit would allow him to reassert Russia\u2019s place as a global power on par with the US. It would be, in Putin\u2019s mind, a return to the kind of recognition Russia enjoyed in 1945 when Josef Stalin parleyed with Franklin D Roosevelt in Yalta about the fate of nations and the shape of Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ann Kiernan, writing for the Financial Times opines that Putin has demanded that a peace settlement that allows him to achieve his war aims of the subjugation of Ukraine be agreed upon prior to any ceasefire. His starting position is even more ambitious, as confirmed in his call with Trump. He wants to deal with what he considers the \u201croot causes\u201d of the situation &#8211; the development of a European security order unfavourable to Russia since the end of the Cold War, Ann wrote further.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally, what emerges from this new, seemingly preposterous Peace Plan suggests that Trump is least interested in the views and security of his European allies, whom he could chuck at any given moment, further, he is also not enamoured about NATO and its expansion. These two pointers are enough to predict a tumble ride of US foreign policy in the coming months and years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pvc_clear\"><\/div>\n<p id=\"pvc_stats_5631\" class=\"pvc_stats all  \" data-element-id=\"5631\" style=\"\"><i class=\"pvc-stats-icon medium\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" version=\"1.0\" viewBox=\"0 0 502 315\" preserveAspectRatio=\"xMidYMid meet\"><g transform=\"translate(0,332) scale(0.1,-0.1)\" fill=\"\" stroke=\"none\"><path d=\"M2394 3279 l-29 -30 -3 -207 c-2 -182 0 -211 15 -242 39 -76 157 -76 196 0 15 31 17 60 15 243 l-3 209 -33 29 c-26 23 -41 29 -80 29 -41 0 -53 -5 -78 -31z\"\/><path d=\"M3085 3251 c-45 -19 -58 -50 -96 -229 -47 -217 -49 -260 -13 -295 52 -53 146 -42 177 20 16 31 87 366 87 410 0 70 -86 122 -155 94z\"\/><path d=\"M1751 3234 c-13 -9 -29 -31 -37 -50 -12 -29 -10 -49 21 -204 19 -94 39 -189 45 -210 14 -50 54 -80 110 -80 34 0 48 6 76 34 21 21 34 44 34 59 0 14 -18 113 -40 219 -37 178 -43 195 -70 221 -36 32 -101 37 -139 11z\"\/><path d=\"M1163 3073 c-36 -7 -73 -59 -73 -102 0 -56 133 -378 171 -413 34 -32 83 -37 129 -13 70 36 67 87 -16 290 -86 209 -89 214 -129 231 -35 14 -42 15 -82 7z\"\/><path d=\"M3689 3066 c-15 -9 -33 -30 -42 -48 -48 -103 -147 -355 -147 -375 0 -98 131 -148 192 -74 13 15 57 108 97 206 80 196 84 226 37 273 -30 30 -99 39 -137 18z\"\/><path d=\"M583 2784 c-38 -19 -67 -74 -58 -113 9 -42 211 -354 242 -373 16 -10 45 -18 66 -18 51 0 107 52 107 100 0 39 -1 41 -124 234 -80 126 -108 162 -133 173 -41 17 -61 16 -100 -3z\"\/><path d=\"M4250 2784 c-14 -9 -74 -91 -133 -183 -95 -150 -107 -173 -107 -213 0 -55 33 -94 87 -104 67 -13 90 8 211 198 130 202 137 225 78 284 -27 27 -42 34 -72 34 -22 0 -50 -8 -64 -16z\"\/><path d=\"M2275 2693 c-553 -48 -1095 -270 -1585 -649 -135 -104 -459 -423 -483 -476 -23 -49 -22 -139 2 -186 73 -142 361 -457 571 -626 285 -228 642 -407 990 -497 242 -63 336 -73 660 -74 310 0 370 5 595 52 535 111 1045 392 1455 803 122 121 250 273 275 326 19 41 19 137 0 174 -41 79 -309 363 -465 492 -447 370 -946 591 -1479 653 -113 14 -422 18 -536 8z m395 -428 c171 -34 330 -124 456 -258 112 -119 167 -219 211 -378 27 -96 24 -300 -5 -401 -72 -255 -236 -447 -474 -557 -132 -62 -201 -76 -368 -76 -167 0 -236 14 -368 76 -213 98 -373 271 -451 485 -162 444 86 934 547 1084 153 49 292 57 452 25z m909 -232 c222 -123 408 -262 593 -441 76 -74 138 -139 138 -144 0 -16 -233 -242 -330 -319 -155 -123 -309 -223 -461 -299 l-81 -41 32 46 c18 26 49 83 70 128 143 306 141 649 -6 957 -25 52 -61 116 -79 142 l-34 47 45 -20 c26 -10 76 -36 113 -56z m-2057 25 c-40 -58 -105 -190 -130 -263 -110 -324 -59 -707 132 -981 25 -35 42 -64 37 -64 -19 0 -241 119 -326 174 -188 122 -406 314 -532 468 l-58 71 108 103 c185 178 428 349 672 473 66 33 121 60 123 61 2 0 -10 -19 -26 -42z\"\/><path d=\"M2375 1950 c-198 -44 -350 -190 -395 -379 -18 -76 -8 -221 19 -290 114 -284 457 -406 731 -260 98 52 188 154 231 260 27 69 37 214 19 290 -38 163 -166 304 -326 360 -67 23 -215 33 -279 19z\"\/><\/g><\/svg><\/i> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Loading\" src=\"https:\/\/asadmirza.in\/wp-content\/plugins\/page-views-count\/ajax-loader-2x.gif\" border=0 \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"pvc_clear\"><\/div>\n<p>https:\/\/clarionindia.net\/peace-talks-to-end-russia-ukraine-war\/ https:\/\/www.sentinelassam.com\/more-news\/editorial\/peace-talks-to-end-russia-ukraine-war https:\/\/raksha-anirveda.com\/peace-talks-to-end-russia-ukraine-war\/ https:\/\/www.pressreader.com\/india\/brighter-kashmir\/20250219\/281968908414150?srsltid=AfmBOopCE5zj5le_3yT7WBRv-vd4bGlaHUMvlD8ck5pDIK1CdH4g6Ye8 Peace talks to end Russia-Ukraine war By now the world should have strapped up to witness a completely unpredictable and more dictatorial American foreign policy, dictated by the 47th President of the United States, Donald Trump. 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