The White House was released between Donald Trump and Volodimir Zelinski-which led to an American decision to suspend military aid to Ukraine-through an exchange of potential ceasefire, as the Ukrainian leader demands security guarantees to deter Russia from the attack again.

On Monday, the US President rejected the fears raised by Zelinski that Russia had formed a violation of such agreements and suggested that the peace agreement be made with a different Ukrainian leader – a long Russian request.

“It shouldn’t be difficult,” Trump said. “It can be very quickly. If someone does not want a deal, I think this person will not be very long.”

Zelinski It has passed on the idea of ​​a rapid ceasefire, haunted, like many Ukrainians, by the period after 2014 when Moscow was often calm the conditions of truce and political settlement.

France and Germany mediated, in 2014 and 2015 agreements were aimed at ending the conflict in the East Dunpas region of Ukraine, where the separatists backed by Moscow were supported.

“We do not need any Minsk agreement,” Zellinski said on Sunday at the end of a flight to the United Kingdom. “It is a trap.”

Minsk has become a strange word for diplomatic failure, which paved the way for Russia Widespread In 2022 it is a precedent for Zelinski and his European supporters, including in Paris and Berlin, who are determined to avoid repetition.

Zelinski tried to revive the Minsk deal in 2019 at a summit in Paris hosted by French President Emmanuel Macron, but his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, did not exchange the same. Moscow was easily violating the ceasefire – although the Ukrainian forces sometimes crashed the truce.

“Russia was using this tactic to bring snipers and conduct direct training,” Zellinski said on Sunday. They were killing both civilians and military. children. It was completely brutal. “

Zelenskyy has repeatedly called for any ceasefire, including through the obligations of Ukraine’s allies to reach its defense if it attacked again.

In the Oval Office on Friday, Trump Zelenskyy’s anxiety As unimportant, the Ukrainians’ concerns confirm that he wanted the peace agreement at any cost.

“I don’t want to talk about security yet, because I want to get the deal,” Trump said. “Security is very easy, and this is about 2 percent of the problem. I am not worried about security. I’m concerned about the deal’s completion.”

“Peace is not just the absence of a war,” Zelinski on Sunday quoted former US President Ronald Reagan.

European leaders joined Zelenskyy in a warning against the frequency of failure in Minsk.

“We have to learn from the mistakes of the past,” UK Prime Minister Sir Kerr Starmer said at the end of the London summit on Sunday. “We cannot accept a weak deal like Minsk, which Russia can easily penetrate. Instead, it should support any power deal.”

“So we can avoid himself in one way or another,” said a senior French official after that.

The person said that this means that the Russians “adhere to the verified and measured obligations, and if they are broken, it is possible to fulfill a strong response from the Europeans and their American allies.”

The concerned officials and analysts said that the agreements were seriously defective, whether in design or implementation.

“They were a strange mix between the ceasefire and the settlement agreement.” It was very unfortunate. There was no clarity in terms of implementation. There was no clear sequence. “

Greminger, who is now the head of the Geneva Center for Security Policy, included other shortcomings: There was no clarity in the line of communication between the two sides and there is no area of ​​fully disengaged to maintain the forces far apart; It is important, there was no accountability for violations.

Ukrainian officials also complain that unarmed OSCE screens were not strong enough to summon the ceasefire violations.

The French official said that the current confrontation line now spanned more than 1000 km, unlike 400 km at the time of Minsk, was precisely why it was necessary to “persuade the Russians from Riposte that followed this if they started again.”

Christophe Hyousjin, the diplomatic advisor of the former German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who mediated in Minsk’s agreements alongside French President Francois Hollande at the time, said he did not consider them a mistake. What was possible at that time. The error was what happened next. “

Hyojin said he could have worked with “some goodwill” from Russia, adding that Berlin should have been doing more to help Ukraine after that.

Minsk Conventions were placed in 2014 and 2015 at moments of sharp weakness of Ukraine with its strength facing a defeat in the battlefield. Paris and Berlin faded at the time with the imagination that Russia was not a party to the conflict, but only the separatists supporting Russia.

Mary Domulin, a former French diplomat who helped implement Minsk and is now with the European Council for Foreign Relations, said. She said that the need to strengthen the position of Ukraine was of utmost importance. “The main lesson that we must draw at this stage is not to approach this as if we need a deal, whatever the cost.”

Pavlo Clememene, who served as Ukrainian Foreign Minister from 2014 to 2019, said that the position of Ukraine today is “a fundamental difference.”

“Minsk was about canceling the escalation and buying time,” while the peace agreement with Russia could include difficult barters and “a change in the current situation.” He said that these “difficult bars” can include the country’s sovereignty explicitly or implicitly.

Sabine Fischer, an older colleague in Eastern Europe at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs, said that the only lessons to be learned from the Minsk disaster was technical because the geopolitical context had changed dramatically since 2015.

First, for Putin, the “extremist”, it is no longer related to the control of Ukraine. “

Second, “Since last Friday, everyone must understand that the United States has already turned to the two sides. In fact, there is no longer a uniform with a clear situation in this conflict.

“Ukrainians are attacked by both sides.”