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Less than a day before that announcement, US media reported that Donald Trump had had a phone call with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to discuss steps towards a negotiated solution.
ADVERTISEMENTUS President Donald Trump’s national security adviser Mike Waltz has said senior members of the administration will meet with European officials this week about how to end the war in Ukraine.The push comes almost three years after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of its neighbour in 2022.Less than a day before that announcement, US media reported that Trump had had a phone call with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin to discuss steps towards a negotiated solution.There has been no immediate confirmation of that conversation from either the White House or the Kremlin.National Security Advisor Mike Waltz declined to comment on it in a television interview.Waltz said the Russian economy is not doing well and that Trump “is prepared to tax, to tariff, to sanction” Moscow to get Putin to the negotiating table.But Waltz also underscored the Trump administration is looking to use this week’s engagements to begin talks on clawing back some of the United States’ assistance to Ukraine.He said European allies will also need to take a greater role in supporting Ukraine going forward.”We need to recoup those costs and that is going to be a partnership with the Ukrainians in terms of their natural resources and their oil and gas and also buying ours,” Waltz said in an appearance on NBC’s Meet the Press.”Those conversations are going to happen this week. And I think an underlying principle here is that the Europeans have to own this conflict going forward. President Trump is going to end it. And then in terms of security guarantees, that is squarely going to be with the Europeans.”Vice President JD Vance will be in Paris later on Monday for an artificial intelligence summit that’s gathering government officials and later this week will head to the Munich Security Conference, where President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will lead Ukraine’s delegation.Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth and Trump’s special envoy on Ukraine and Russia, Keith Kellogg, will also attend the Munich conference.On Wednesday, Hegseth will join the main international forum for drumming up weapons and ammunition for Ukraine.The UK is convening the 26th meeting of the Ukraine Defence Contact Group, a consortium of around 50 partner countries, on Wednesday at NATO headquarters in Brussels. Kyiv under pressureTrump boasted during the presidential election campaign that he could end the war in 24 hours, which later became six months, but gave no details about how.ADVERTISEMENTHe’s indicated the US is talking to Russia about Ukraine without Kyiv’s input, saying his administration already had “very serious” discussions.That would run counter to the Biden administration’s position that echoed Zelenskyy’s call of “Nothing about Ukraine without Ukraine.”The Ukrainian leader has suggested any peace deal reached without Kyiv’s input would send the dangerous signal that adventurism pays to authoritarian leaders in China, North Korea and Iran.Meanwhile, Trump said he and Putin could soon take “significant” action toward ending the war, in which Russia is suffering heavy casualties daily while its economy endures stiff Western sanctions, inflation and a serious labour shortage.ADVERTISEMENTBut the economy has not collapsed and because Putin has unleashed the harshest crackdown on dissent since Soviet times, he faces no domestic pressure to end the war.
