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The Trump administration appears to be losing patience with Russian President Vladimir Putin, even as President Trump holds face-to-face meetings to end the Ukrainian war.
Trump met with Putin this week in talks between Russian and Ukrainian officials with his speeches traveling to Turkey to meet with Putin, but the Kremlin expects that the Russian president will not participate in the negotiations but send low-level officials before the negotiations begin.
This led Secretary of State Marco Rubio to attend a meeting in Türkiye on European support for Ukraine to skip the negotiations. Rubio later suggested that the Trump-Putin meeting was the “only way” to end the war, a statement that seemed to raise the ante and expressed dissatisfaction with Putin’s drag on foot.
The Russian leader said he hoped for a better U.S. relationship in the end, but had little intention to offer any concessions on Ukraine.
On the other hand, Trump criticized the U.S. military support for Ukraine and hoped to do business with Russia. The President believes that war is destructive to both people and property.
“Vladimir, stop!” Trump killed more than a dozen civilians in Kiev last month after scoring more points, and after he wrote the truth about socializing.
Despite this, Putin continues to reject Trump’s call for a ceasefire.
“We have to meet,” Trump told reporters on Air Force One on Friday after Putin’s latest refusal. “He and I will meet and I think we’ll fix it, or maybe it won’t. But at least we’ll know. If we don’t fix it, it’ll be very interesting.”
The president’s final effort to ensure the meeting is risky, with foreign policy experts pointing to Trump’s history of the occupation of Putin, which depends on his first administration.
In 2018, Trump recognized Putin’s denial of Russian interference in the 2016 election, abandoning the discovery of the U.S. intelligence community after meeting him.
“President Putin is very powerful in today’s denial,” Trump said at a press conference at the time. Later, in a social media post, he wrote: “In order to build a better future, we cannot focus on the past only – as the two largest nuclear powers in the world, we must get along!”
Today, Trump’s special envoy, Steve Witkoff, held talks with two European countries, and even returned from a meeting with Putin to repeat the Kremlin.
“For most observers, it is clear that Putin is not interested in serious negotiations or ceasefires,” said Maria Snegovaya, a senior researcher in Russia and Eurasia, at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) plans for Europe, Russia and Eurasia.
She continued: “If anything, such a meeting would only incite Putin, because it shows that his diplomatic quarantine ends without requiring him to make any concessions.”
Ukrainians fear being eliminated during conversation
“We are very grateful to our partners for all their efforts in the peace process. But it is very important for us to be a member of any negotiation and all conditions must be justified within the framework of our constitutional framework,” Lesia Zaburranna, a member of the Ukrainian parliament of Volodymyr Zelensky, President of the Ukrainian Islands (Ukrainian Islands), wrote in the text.
She added: “I’m sure Putin doesn’t want peace. He’s a very cunning and mean person. Only with Trump’s strong position can his power change the situation.”
Ukrainian and Russian officials held direct talks in Istanbul for the first time in years. Türkiye’s Foreign Minister said in an article on social media platform X that the two sides agreed to exchange 1,000 prisoners of war, saying they would write down the terms of the parties and work on future negotiations.
But Ukrainians are still worried about what a one-on-one meeting between Trump and Putin might lead to.
One of Ukraine’s main concerns is whether Trump will recognize Russian-occupied Ukrainian territory. According to a draft U.S. proposal to end the war, the U.S. will provide de jure, according to a draft U.S. proposal reported by Reuters last month Recognizes the five areas that Moscow occupies completely and partially.
These include Crimea, the Russian invasion and annexation in 2014, the eastern regions of Donetsk and Luhansk, and the southern provinces of Zhaporzhzhia and Zhaporzhzhia and Kherson, which are partially controlled by Russia.
Other possible concessions listed in the draft U.S. peace proposal include a ban on Ukraine from joining NATO-Putin’s red line, and the troubles of Kiev, which is the alliance’s support as a key security guarantee.
The draft also proposes to lift the sanctions imposed on Russia for the first time in 2014 and cooperate with Russia with the energy and other industrial sectors.
European leaders and Ukraine rejected the terms, offered an anti-joint, and even took a charismatic offensive in an attempt to put Trump around them.
Zelensky sat with leaders from France, Germany, Poland and Britain on Friday on a phone call with Trump, urging Unity to force Putin to end the war.
“It is important that Ukraine is ready to take the fastest steps to bring true peace,” Zelensky said in a statement on social media platform X.
“Our position – if the Russians reject a full and unconditional ceasefire and end the killing, then the difficult sanctions must be followed,” he wrote. “Pressure on Russia must be maintained before Russia is ready to end the war.”
Deputy Presidential assistant Sebastian Gorka suggested Thursday that a meeting between Trump and Putin is about to take place.
“The deal is about timing, and that’s when the president is in the room with Putin. My expectations are limitless,” he said in a speech at the Politico National Security Summit in Washington.
Snegovaya said the promise of sanctions relief is unlikely to push Putin to concessions as the Russian economy adapts to punishment. She said CSIS’s upcoming report will show how the prospect of removing fines will disappoint businesses.
“If sanctions are lifted, many businesses are now losing the adapted business model. This strengthens sanctions rather than relaxing their cases, and is the only viable way to influence the Kremlin strategic calculations,” she said.
Ukraine’s Republican supporters on Capitol Hill are eagerly awaiting Trump’s instructions, and the president’s most determined allies will impose bipartisan sanctions on Moscow’s bipartisan sanctions package to provide room for negotiation.
“I think it’s too early to negotiate now,” Senator Eric Schmitt, a member of the Senate Armed Forces Committee, said in a speech at the Politico summit on Thursday.
“I think if they don’t make an agreement, it’s definitely on the table,” he added. “I think all of this should be on the table.”
A spokesman for Senate Majority Leader John Thune told Hill earlier this week that there was no announcement when asked about bringing the sanctions bill to the floor.
The bill is made by Sens. sponsored by Lindsey Graham (RS.C.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and have 70 supporters.
Ukraine’s Republican allies in Congress are shocking Trump’s impatientness with Putin, pointing out that Russian leadership is an obstacle to peace.
Senator John Cornyn (R-Texas) posted on X, saying: “Putin does not respect the goodwill of the United States and the president.”
Rep. Michael McCall, honorary chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said he supports the House version of the Graham Blumenthal bill and called on Trump to ship weapons to Ukraine with funds allocated from the April 2024 supplementary package in addition to sanctions.
“The Wartime Act I passed has a presidential reduction authority that can still use more weapons,” he said at the Politico summit.
According to government data, about $20 billion in unpaid funds remain.
“So, I think bringing him to a place where he negotiates sincerely is a combination of sanctions and more weapons.” explain.
Snegovaya agrees.
“At this point, the United States has provided Putin with a lot of carrots,” she said. “The long-standing late delivery of sticks: tougher sanctions and clear commitments to Ukraine’s future deadly aid.”