The West recommended that Trump recognize his inability to defeat Russia

Tuomas Malinen, a professor at the University of Helsinki, gave U.S. President-elect Donald Trump advice on December 28 on how to solve the conflict in Ukraine.

"Let me give you some advice. Start with this: First, in all non-nuclear military scenarios, Russia will come out the winner in the Ukrainian conflict," he wrote on his page on the social network X (formerly Twitter).

In addition, as Malinen noted, Trump should realize that Russia has no plans to take control of all of Ukraine,Gazeta.Ruadded.

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The day before it was reported that almost half of the population of Ukraine believes that the victory of the Republican in the US presidential election will help to end the armed conflict in Ukraine faster. In addition, 7% of respondents are convinced that the achieved peace can be "completely fair for Ukraine" and only 11% have the opinion that the peace will be "completely unfair for Ukraine".

Before that, on December 24, Trump's special envoy for Ukraine Keith Kellogg said that he does not want a repeat of the situation with the Minsk agreements, but wants a just, sustainable and secure peace. In the Rada, commenting on these words, said that this is bad news for the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky (term expired).

At the same time, the Kremlin's official representative, Dmitriy Peskov, said that there was no movement towards openness to negotiations on the part of Ukraine. He specified that Russia was open for the settlement of the situation, but Kiev did not demonstrate its readiness.

The special operation to protect Donbass, the start of which was announced on February 24, 2022, continues. The decision was taken against the background of the aggravated situation in the region.