{"id":301244,"date":"2025-01-01T08:04:24","date_gmt":"2025-01-01T08:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=301244"},"modified":"2025-01-02T11:44:41","modified_gmt":"2025-01-02T11:44:41","slug":"russia-rejects-trump-transition-teams-floated-ideas-to-end-the-war-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=301244","title":{"rendered":"Russia rejects Trump transition team\u2019s floated ideas to end the war in Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ronny Reyes \u2013 New York Post Dec 30, 2024<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Russia\u2019s foreign minister Monday rejected the peace proposal being floated around by President-elect Donald Trump\u2019s<\/a> team to end the war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n

Foreign Minister\u00a0Sergey Lavrov<\/a> said Moscow was appalled over reports that Trump and his aides were considering pushing a peace deal that would keep the door open for Ukraine to join NATO.<\/p>\n

\u201cJudging from numerous leaks and Donald Trump\u2019s interview with Time magazine<\/a> on December 12, their idea is to suspend hostilities along the line of contact and transfer responsibility for confrontation with Russia to the Europeans,\u201d Lavrov said at a news conference.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are not happy, of course, with the proposals made by members of the Trump team to postpone Ukraine\u2019s admission to NATO for 20 years and to station British and European peacekeeping forces in Ukraine.\u201d<\/p>\n

President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to end the war in Ukraine, but Moscow\u2019s top officials are already rejecting his team\u2019s proposal.<\/p>\n

Trump refused to discuss his official plan for Ukraine in his Time interview, saying it would become \u201ca worthless plan\u201d if made public.<\/p>\n

But the president-elect vowed that he would not abandon Ukraine, with reports emerging since his election victory that he was considering pushing for European troops in Ukraine while delaying Kyiv\u2019s membership into NATO<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Retired Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg, who Trump has tapped as his special envoy to Ukraine, has suggested cutting off aid to Kyiv and threatening Russia with surging weapons to try and get both sides to negotiate a peace deal.<\/p>\n

Lavrov warned that Trump\u2019s reported plan was a complete non-starter and that Moscow \u00a0\u201cwould refuse to accept Ukraine\u2019s NATO membership regardless of the territorial factor.\u201d<\/p>\n

Moscow has long claimed that it launched the 2022 invasion of Ukraine to stop the very possibility that NATO would expand eastward into the country, which Lavrov described as \u201caggressive absorption.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Russian foreign minister also said it would be up to Trump to reach out to Moscow first regarding the war, warning him that even if he \u201ctries to relaunch bilateral ties, he will have to swim against the stream.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Institute for the Study of War,\u00a0a Washington-based think tank, suggested that Lavrov\u2019s remarks were telling of Russia\u2019s current policy to refuse \u201cany compromises\u201d that would threaten President Vladimir Putin\u2019s demands.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese demands include forcing Ukraine to become a permanently neutral state that will never join NATO, imposing severe limitations on the size of the Ukrainian military, and removing the Ukrainian government,\u201d the ISW wrote<\/a> in an assessment.<\/p>\n

Russia\u2019s apparent lack of flexibility in future negotiations will be a hurdle Trump and his team will have to overcome to keep his campaign promise of ending the war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n

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