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As the best US officials are preparing to meet with the Russian delegation in Saudi Arabia on Sunday, questions arose about how Trump administration will push Moscow to expand A Pre -cessation of fire.
Russian President Vladimir Putin this week agreed to stop the strikes on the energy infrastructure of Ukraine this week, which includes the largest nuclear power plant in Europe, The Zaporizhzhia NPP.
Secretary of State Mark Rubio and National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, who both goes to the Jed for negotiations, said the next step would be to stop the fire over the Black Sea.
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On the left, US Advisor to National Security Mike Waltz, US Secretary of State Mark Rubio, Foreign Minister Saudi Arabia Prince Bin Farhan, Saudi National Security Advisor Bin Mohammad Al-Aiban, Foreign Minister of Ukraine Andri Sibikh and Ukrainian Saudi, 1125, 2025, 2025. (Saul forehead/photo pool via AP)
Earlier, Moscow agreed to a similar transaction stipulated by Turkey and the United Nations in 2022, known as the Black Maritime Initiative, which tried to provide Ukrainian exports of agricultural products to control global prices, but Putin pulled out of Agreement in 2023.
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But there is another question that, apparently, will be on the negotiating table in the Middle East – Ukraine’s nuclear energy.
As the president’s focus on the mineral transaction with Ukraine fell, he turned his interest in the new business enterprise, in the US “ownership” from “electrical and nuclear power plants”.
“American property for these plants will be the best protection for this infrastructure and support of Ukrainian energy infrastructure,” said in a joint statement that Rubio and Waltz said after Trump’s phone call on Wednesday with President of Ukrainian Valodimir Zelensky.
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Asked by Fox News Digital as Putin having made his interest Zaporizhia Nuclear Power Plant will respond to Trump’s new ambitions, Rebecca Coffler, former DIA intelligence officer and Putin’s book, said it does not think it will be fine.
“Putin almost certainly favors this idea and will try to sabotage such a case,” said Coftener, who informed NATO officials about Putin’s ambitions in Ukraine over the years before the 2022 invasion. “Moreover, Zelenskyy is unlikely to sign such a deal.
“Zelensky would most likely agree to give in control of Zaporizhia’s nuclear power plant, which is currently under Russian control. The Russians will not voluntarily refuse control over the steam.
Infographic, created in Ankara, Turkey, August 12, 2024. (Yasin Demirci/Anadolu via Getty Images)
It is unclear when Trump’s interest in acquiring the energy infrastructure of Ukraine has begun, although it seems to be related to its previous allegations that Ukraine will be better protected if it has US workers and enterprises working within its borders.
The reason for this argument was discussed because there were and remained, American companies that work In Ukraine during the invasion of Russia. The discussion contributed to the Oval Office between Trump and Zelensky last month.
Caffler said Putin could consider the absorption of four nuclear power plants in the US as a “back way” to extend some security guarantees for Ukraine and “a reasonable way of controlling Ukraine’s nuclear capacity, which Russians may be militarized.”
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“It will be regarded as a threat to Russia,” Coftener said.
Asked how the US property on the energy infrastructure of Ukraine may affect the negotiations, former CIA Station Chief Dan Hoffman said that Fox News Digital is not convinced that it would have a great influence on the actual support for peace.
“Show me the deal. We do not yet have a deal. We have a ceasefire that was broken on energy infrastructure,” Hoffman said. He noted that even after Putin agreed to stop the attack Rail energy system In the Dnipropetrovsk region, which led to a civil shutdown of electricity.
President Donald Trump meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the first day of the G20 summit in Osak, Japan, June 28, 2019. (Kremlin in Press/Gambling/Agency Anadolu/Getty Images)
“This is just another debat moment. There are so many other issues that are of much greater importance. What Putin will probably make for his negotiating strategy, say,” Oh, I’ll let you do it the United States, but I want it in return. “
“He wants Ukraine. He wants overthrow the government. This is his goal, ”Hoffman added.
“Now he can negotiate that he can’t get on the battlefield.”
While discussing a number of issues, the former CIA head of the Moscow station stated that the real key in the execution of any ceasefire should be a true signal of Putin, which he actually wants the war to end.
“The big question that John Ratcliffe must answer is why Putin wants to stop the fire. I would claim he didn’t,” Hoffman said with reference to the CIA director. “There are zero signs that he wants him.
Ukrainian military fire with French self-governed 155 mm/52nd Caesar caliber to Russian positions on the front line in the eastern Ukrainian region of Donbass on June 15, 2022. (Aris Messinis/AFP via Getty Images)
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“If he wanted to stop the war and stop the killing of his own people and stop pouring so much blood and treasures, he would stop it,” Hoffman claimed.
Ultimately, Hoffman said, looking at how most major wars have ended, history suggests that war in Ukraine can only end on the battlefield.
“One side loses, one side wins, or both parties no longer have the means to fight,” Hoffman said. “That’s how the wars ends.”
