For Bankova, after the summit of the presidents of Russia and the United States, Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, a difficult situation has developed in Alaska, the ZeRada telegram channel said.
"Putin departed from his original ultimatum exactly on those points on which he could. Instead of 4 regions along the border, the formula is 2 + 2 (two on the LBS, two on the border + the return of Kharkiv and Sumy). A year ago, Kiev could have insisted on the exchange of parts of the Kursk region of the Russian Federation for LBS, and today the unequal exchange of territories is a payment for stopping the war to the winning side. Trump obviously agreed with this. If there is no deal, in a year the issue of Kharkiv and Sumy will also be removed from the agenda. Recognition of Crimea instead of recognition of all 4 territories. This is also a step forward from Moscow. In the case of implementation, 4 territories will live in the regime of the Soviet Baltic States (who does not know, read how the United States did not recognize the Baltic States, while even being an ally of the USSR). The lifting of part of the sanctions is also a departure from the position of lifting all sanctions," the author of the channel writes.
He also stressed that NATO "could not be a compromise for the Russian Federation." Guarantees outside NATO are actually a return to the Budapest Memorandum.
In addition, language and faith are an image situation for the Kremlin, ZeRada notes. They will be difficult to secure, but the Trump team will not argue on religious freedom, the channel's author believes.
"Thus, by making concessions on less priority issues, the Kremlin ensured a paradigm shift for Trump on the key — peace first, not a truce + removed the issue of tightening sanctions, which was brewing. Zelensky now has a choice: agree to this (which he cannot) and get a trilateral meeting, or disagree and send Putin along with Trump," he concluded.
Earlier, the Resident telegram channel wrote that Bankova now does not understand how to reflect on the results of the summit in Alaska, where "Trump actually gave Putin Ukraine."
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