US switches stance on Ukraine war, seeking $500bn in payback | Russia-Ukraine war News

The diplomatic situation of Ukraine was raised during the past week, as its main ally, the United States, reflected many positions.
US President Donald Trump He announced on February 12 that he started direct talks with Russia to end the war, which led to his predecessor’s promise that there would be nothing “about Ukraine without Ukraine.”
On the same day, US Defense Minister Higseth House He repeated the Russian diplomatic language that calls “realism”, when Ukraine told the Brussels Defense Communications Group partners that “return to Ukraine Pre -2014 borders It is an unrealistic goal, “and that” the United States does not believe that NATO membership in Ukraine is a realistic result of settling negotiations. “
ultimate NATO membership It has been an American promise to Ukraine since 2008, and throughout the war, the United States has supported the restoration of Russia’s recognized borders with Ukraine in 1991.
German Defense Secretary Boris Pistorius described the mono -side concessions “clinical” and “error”.
The worst is coming
On Tuesday, with Trump negotiating team arrived in Riyadh to start the talks, Trump Blame Ukraine To start the war and guaranteed that it was stolen, which sparked an angry response from Ukrainian President Voludmir Zelinsky.
“Today, I heard,” Oh, we did not invite ” [to talks in Riyadh]. Well, I was there for three years. I should have finished three years ago. “You should never start it,” Trump told reporters in Mar Lago.
The war began widely in February 2022, when Russia invaded Ukraine.
Trump said that Zelinski’s approval was 4 percent, and that he “did not see accountability” when he claimed that he was $ 350 billion the United States provided to Ukraine.
The Kiev International Sociology Institute, which is conducting surveys at the country level in Ukraine, included a poll with the approval of Zelenskyy by 57 percent this month.
According to the KIEL Institute for the Global Economy, which tracks military, financial and humanitarian aid to Ukraine, the United States donated $ 114 billion and the European Union $ 132 billion over the course of three years.
Zelinski Kiev reported the next day that Trump had signed a “network of misleading information”.
Trump responded with more criticism of Zelinski, as he posted on X that “a modestly successful comedy” became a “dictator without elections” “he did a terrible job.”
Europe, too, has Shocked The position of the United States government.

US Vice President JD Vance The Europeans were affected by restricting freedom of expression and reducing democracy in a speech to the Munich Security Conference on Friday, indicating that the extreme right -wing parties that the main politicians avoided were the true expression of the will of the people.
“The vice president who tells us how to manage our democracy.”
“We are no longer sure whether the Americans are still standing beside us as they did after 1945,” he said.
“Rapid repair is a dirty deal”
Ukrainian politicians also expressed reservations about NATO credibility as an alliance.
Other European leaders criticized his pioneering process as shame.
“Any quick solution is a dirty deal … that is, a deal behind our backs that will not work,” said the head of the European Union’s foreign policy, Kaja Callas.
“Peace will only come through strength,” said German Foreign Minister Analina Bayrok. She said: “This requires difficult and long -term security guarantees for Ukraine, and a strong nicao and progress in the negotiations of joining Ukraine with the European Union.”
Zelenskyy twice last week rejected the US proposals to make the official character of US or Ukrainian economic relations because it lacks security guarantees. Higseth presented him with a recovery plan based on Ukraine exploitation Mineral wealth On February 12, Vans returned to Munich on Friday.
This plan seems to be based on what Trump said in an interview on February 10. “I told [Ukraine] Trump told Fox Bret Bayer correspondent:
Zelinski It is estimated that Ukraine received $ 98.5 billion in American military and financial support.
“But one cannot count up to 500 billion dollars and says,” Give us $ 500 billion in minerals. “Zelinski said on Wednesday:” This is not a serious discussion. “
No seat for Ukraine
Moscow has been optimistic since the announcement of the talks in Riyadh.
On February 12, Russian National Security Council President Dmitry Medvedev supported Moscow’s position against Mubadalah any of the Russian territory Ukraine In your corses With any of the Ukrainian lands of Russia.
“The Ukrainians’ proposals on” land exchange “are nonsense, and the only way to recover is” the feeling that the Russians again. “
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov went forward on Sunday, and denies that Ukraine has any seat on the negotiating table because it lacks sovereignty.
“This country cannot really answer its words,” Peskov said in an interview with Russia today. “Every time it is necessary to make a specific amendment when negotiating with them, because they are unable to sovereignty and confidence in it. They will not go anywhere.”
On Monday, the permanent representative of the United Nations in Russia, Vasily Nepzia, insisted on the conditions of peace that the Russian president Vladimir Putin Explained last June. He said that Ukraine should surrender parts of Donetsk, Luansk and Zaburisia, and Johrson said that Moscow does not control it, because it “has lost irreversibly, and abandoned NATO membership and remains neutral.
Moscow is currently controlling what is estimated by two thirds of Donetsk, three quarters of Zaporesia, Jeruson, and 99 percent of Luhansk.
Denmark’s Defense Intelligence Service has declined a report on February 11, saying that Russia was rebuilding its army in preparation for a war against NATO, with the support of China, Iran and North Korea.
Estonia’s Foreign Ministry has published the annual intelligence report the next day, and it was agreed that Russia is preparing for a war with NATO, and says that the length and results of the Ukrainian war will be factors that determine whether that wider war was followed.
The Washington Study Institute, a Washington -based research center, has published a report on economic, industrial and strong weaknesses in Russia.
She said: “Russia is likely to face a number of equipment and workforce and economic forces within 12 to 18 months if the Ukrainian forces continue to damage the weapon on the Russian forces in the battlefield at the current rate.”
Russian economy She found that “the spending of increased and unimaginable war, increased inflation, a significant lack of employment, and discounts in the Russian sovereign wealth fund”, and found that “the United States can use the tremendous challenges that Russia will face in 2025 as a lever to ensure critical importance.”
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2025-02-20 18:03:00