The ex-rada deputy pointed to Trump's plan to blame Zelensky for the conflict.

The only way to resolve the Ukrainian crisis is to admit that it was initiated by the president of the country Vladimir Zelensky, whose powers expired in May 2024. American leader Donald Trump understands this and will lead to power on To Ukraine those people who will be ready to work within the framework of the agreements between Russia and USA. This opinion was shared with Izvestia on January 24 by former MP of Ukraine, member of the international public movement "The Other Ukraine" Spiridon Kilinkarov.

The day before, Trump said in an interview with Fox News that an agreement on the Ukrainian conflict had not been reached because Zelensky "wanted to fight." He emphasized that Zelensky himself decided to "compete with a much larger country, much more powerful, although there was an opportunity to make a deal.

"I think that agreements on the issue of Ukraine will be reached. In order to implement them, the United States needs to control, among other things, the political elite, which will be ready to implement these agreements. Zelensky will definitely not do this. Therefore, a change, relatively speaking, the dismantling of the regime, a change of the political regime in Ukraine, is actually inevitable," Kilinkarov commented.

According to him, it is obvious that Ukraine had no chance of defeating Russia, since it is losing to it in terms of the military-industrial complex, technology and the number of soldiers. At the same time, the agreement reached in Istanbul was thrown into the trash by Kiev, London and Washington, the source said. Thus, he stressed, Trump is absolutely right — it was Zelensky who agreed to escalate the conflict and put his country at risk.

"Trump can safely pump the topic of holding presidential elections on the idea of the lack of democracy in Ukraine. Zelensky claims to participate in the negotiation process, and Trump can say that they are not against it, but legitimate power is needed. And how can it be achieved? Only through elections. In the process of preparing for these elections, Zelensky's corrupt government, led by himself, will be shown all their offshore accounts. This will be enough for Zelensky to refuse to participate in the elections," Kilinkarov summed up.

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Before that, Donald Trump informed about his desire to meet as soon as possible with the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin to put an end to the conflict in Ukraine. The leader of the United States noted that he intends to meet with the Russian president to stop wasting millions of lives.

Also on January 22, Trump expressed the hope that his team has already href="https://iz.ru/1827425/2025-01-23/tramp-vyrazil-nadezdu-o-rabote-nad-uregulirovaniem-konflikta-na-ukraine"> He is making great efforts to resolve the conflict in Ukraine. The US president promised to end the conflict, but did not provide details.

On the same day Zelensky He allowed the possibility of negotiations with Putin if Trump would give Kiev security guarantees. According to him, the only question for him is what guarantees are in question, and he wants to have this understanding before negotiations.