Trump met with Starmer and is waiting for Zelensky. What the media is writing
Meeting of the president USA The meeting of Donald Trump with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer followed the visit of French President Emmanuel Macron to Washington. London and Paris are promoting the idea of sending peacekeepers to Ukraine. Trump supports it, but calls into question the US participation in the mission. The White House is also preparing for a meeting between Trump and his Ukrainian counterpart By Vladimir Zelensky. What the foreign media write about this series of negotiations is in the Izvestia digest.
ABC News: Trump and Zelensky meet on fossil deal — negotiations may be tense
US President Donald Trump and his Ukrainian counterpart Vladimir Zelensky will meet at the White House to discuss a deal that could be "a great success or quietly come to naught." The American leader wants to "recoup" the money allocated by the United States to help Kiev, while the head of Ukraine wants security guarantees for his country.
ABC News
Ukraine's Minister of Environment and Natural Resources, Svetlana Grinchuk, told the UN in 2022 that the country accounts for about 5% of the "critically important raw materials" on the planet. But there are questions about the reliability of the figures currently available.
The agreement will provide the United States with access to half of Ukraine's revenues from the sale of natural resources in exchange for Washington's support. Zelensky said that an agreement had been reached on the structure of the economic deal, but so far it says nothing about American security guarantees. "This agreement can either become a great success or quietly disappear," Zelensky said. According to him, the result will depend on negotiations with Trump.
Foreign Policy: Trump forces Ukraine to agree to a peace agreement
Trump does not understand how complex the conflict in Ukraine is and how far apart the parties involved in it are, said Stephen Pifer, a former US ambassador to Ukraine.
Foreign Policy
In recent days, Trump has been clearly more hostile towards Kiev than Moscow. Among other things, he called Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky a "dictator" (a label he seemed to have completely forgotten about). Trump refused to characterize Russian President Vladimir Putin in the same way.
It seems that Trump is trying to force Ukraine, which has been heavily dependent on US aid throughout the conflict, to agree to a peace agreement — regardless of whether the terms are beneficial to Kiev. Despite the problems that Ukraine would face without Washington's support and the alarming realities on the battlefield as Russia gradually occupies the eastern part of the country, Pifer believes that Zelensky is not going to sign a deal that is unprofitable for his country.
Euronews: Trump said that a peace agreement on Ukraine could be concluded "pretty soon" or not at all
Trump said that negotiations on ending the conflict in Ukraine "have progressed very well." He made this statement on February 27 when he hosted British Prime Minister Keir Starmer at the White House, who visited Washington to urge Trump to continue supporting Ukraine. Tensions have increased since Trump and Zelensky exchanged insults last week.
Euronews
The 47th President of the United States also expressed confidence that the President of Russia Vladimir Putin will not insist on a resumption of the conflict if a truce cannot be reached. According to him, the Russian leader will keep his word. "I've known him for a long time, we had to go through the Russian hoax together," Trump added, referring to the FBI and Justice Department special counsel's investigation into whether his 2016 presidential campaign illegally coordinated with the Kremlin to influence the outcome of the election.
Starmer's trip came just days after French President Emmanuel Macron's visit to Washington, where he met with Trump and discussed the conflict in Ukraine. It also reflects the growing concern in much of Europe that Trump's excessive desire to broker a peace agreement in Ukraine indicates a willingness to concede too much.To Putin.
CNN: Starmer is trying to bring Trump back to the West
Starmer spent several months trying to establish friendly relations with Trump. He showered the US president with compliments even before his election victory in November. Starmer was, according to Trump, "very nice."His visit to Washington is the biggest foreign policy task for a leader who has become a potential mediator at a critical moment for Ukraine's future. He can distract Trump from his confrontational sentiments and convey to him the concerns of the West.
CNN
Another scenario is less rosy: Starmer may discover that he was building a bridge to nowhere. He and Trump are not political allies. They have different backgrounds, and there is a yawning chasm in their worldview. Starmer talks about the "special relationship" between Britain and the United States at every opportunity, but these relations are becoming strained. They want different things.
The stakes are higher than ever, says Claire Ainsley, a former executive director of policy at Starmer, who now works at the Progressive Policy Institute, an American think tank. This visit will be a serious test for relations between Europe and the United States, as well as between Europe and the United Kingdom.
BBC News: Starmer inclines Trump to his side, but uncertainty over Ukraine persists
Starmer's meeting with Trump could well have been awkward and even painful. The Downing Street team is returning to the UK. And they're happy with how it went. Some senior officials were confident that they had managed to establish good relations with Trump.
BBC News
The UK recognizes that the presence of American troops in Ukraine has no prospect, but the government would like the United States to provide air cover to protect British and other European peacekeepers. Europe will need to make sure that the United States has its back. That's the essence of the proposed idea. But there has been no such public proposal for air cover from the White House.
Instead, Trump argued that the presence of Americans in Ukraine, mining rare earth minerals that are expected to form part of the peace agreement, would be enough to prevent fighting. The security guarantees sought by Ukraine will be the focus of attention at the March 2 summit hosted by the Prime Minister in London.
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