{"id":13819,"date":"2025-11-24T12:08:58","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T04:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tingchao.xyz\/?p=13819"},"modified":"2025-11-24T12:09:01","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T04:09:01","slug":"us-trumpets-ukraine-progress-but-will-the-kremlin-agree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tingchao.xyz\/?p=13819","title":{"rendered":"US trumpets Ukraine progress, but will the Kremlin agree?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

America\u2019s top diplomat struck a relentlessly upbeat tone in Geneva, after a rollercoaster day of intensive negotiations aimed at convincing a skeptical Ukraine to accept the latest US proposals<\/a> to end Russia\u2019s brutal war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI feel very optimistic that we can get something done here, because we made a tremendous amount of progress,\u201d the US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, told me at a late-night news conference at the US Mission in the Swiss city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even President Donald Trump, who just hours earlier had again publicly scolded the Ukrainian leadership<\/a> for expressing what he regarded as insufficient gratitude, was now \u201cquite pleased at the reports we\u2019ve given him about the amount of progress that\u2019s been made,\u201d Rubio added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the Secretary of State, who unexpectedly appeared in the briefing room alone, instead of being accompanied, as he had been earlier that day, by the powerful head of the Ukrainian delegation, Andriy Yermak, repeatedly refused to be drawn on the specifics of what had been achieved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019m not going to get into the details of the topics we discussed, because this is an ongoing process,\u201d Rubio told me, while suggesting in other comments that \u201cthe items that remain are not insurmountable.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But given the extent of the deep compromises Ukraine is being called on to make in the publicly available version of the US peace proposals <\/a>\u2013 which are seen as heavily favoring Russia<\/a> \u2013 the suggestion that they can be easily overcome rings hollow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The proposal for Ukraine to surrender key territories in the Donbas region of Eastern Ukraine, for example, that Russia has annexed but not captured, has been a longstanding red line for Kyiv, not least because the area includes the \u201cfortress belt\u201d of heavily defended towns and cities seen as essential to Ukrainian security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The US proposals seen by CNN suggest the area becomes a Russian demilitarized zone, which the Kremlin\u2019s military forces would agree not to enter. But ordering the Ukrainian military to hand over land that its troops have fought and died to keep would be a hard sell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A view of the ruined and abandoned town of Maryinka (Mariinka) in the Donetsk region, Russian-controlled Ukraine on April 1, 2025. – AFP\/Getty Images\u00a9\u00a0AFP\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Same too, the proposed limitation on Ukraine\u2019s armed forces. Although set at a maximum of 600,000-strong in the US plan, European officials say they fear it would leave the country vulnerable to future attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But Washington, seemingly even more determined to force through a peace deal, has made it clear it expects Ukraine to comply, threatening to withdraw US military support for Kyiv and allow the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky \u2013 in the words of President Trump \u2013 \u201cto fight his little heart out.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a statement on Sunday night from Washington, the White House said that the Ukrainians believe the latest draft of the peace proposals \u201creflects their national security interests,\u201d after various revisions and clarifications made with input from top US, Ukrainian and European officials in Geneva.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Ukrainian delegation affirmed that all of their principal concerns \u2013 security guarantees, long-term economic development, infrastructure protection, freedom of navigation, and political sovereignty \u2013 were thoroughly addressed during the meeting,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even if the current draft US peace proposal does indeed now work for Ukraine, it is very possible that it would no longer work for Russia, which has consistently refused to back down from its maximalist demands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And the Kremlin has so far faced limited US pressure to do so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Geneva, Secretary of State Rubio repeatedly side-stepped my attempts to ask him whether the US would also expect Russia, not just Ukraine, to make any significant concessions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if the White House is actually serious about achieving what it now calls \u201ca durable, comprehensive peace\u201d in Ukraine, somehow convincing the Kremlin to compromise may be its best bet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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