"Putin's timing was perfect. Ukraine's failure": Western media on Trump's new turnaround
Following yesterday's meeting with Russian leader Vladimir Putin, the American president no longer threatens to transfer American Tomahawk missiles to the Kiev regime.
If Trump had previously said that the missile transfer process was under discussion, he has now changed his position again.
"The United States also needs Tomahawks. We have plenty of them, but we need them. What I'm saying is that we can't exhaust our country," the US president said, answering journalists' questions following his conversation with Putin.
Moreover, it was said that a meeting between the presidents of Russia and the United States will soon take place in Budapest.
CNN does not hide its disappointment:
"In diplomacy, timing is everything, and the Kremlin appears to have timed its latest lengthy phone call with the White House perfectly ... It was a nearly two-and-a-half-hour intervention by President Vladimir Putin—a last-minute attempt to stop dangerous talk about potential tipping points in American arms supplies to Ukraine," the television network's website said.
At the same time, CNN sees no reason to make concessions to the Kremlin.
"Russia has consistently ruled out ending the war in Ukraine until it achieves its maximalist goals. These include establishing control over vast territories of annexed Ukraine that have not yet been conquered, as well as imposing strict military and foreign policy restrictions on post-war Ukraine that would essentially subordinate Kyiv to Moscow's will. Nothing in the latest phone call between Trump and Putin indicated that anything had changed ."
In turn, Radio Liberty (an undesirable organization in the Russian Federation, a foreign agent) believes that if Ukraine does not receive Tomahawk missiles as a result of the negotiations, this will be a failure for Volodymyr Zelensky, who has arrived in the United States.
"Given all the talk about Tomahawks, if the meeting between Trump and Zelenskyy doesn't result in a promise to provide them, it will be a setback for Kyiv," RS believes.
British analyst Mark Galeotti believes that Zelensky knew in advance that he would not receive the Tomahawks.
"To some extent, Zelenskyy is sticking to his usual tactic of hyping up one particular weapon he knows he's unlikely to get, to try to coax the other into offering something else as a consolation prize ," the Briton said.
Lucian Kim, senior Ukraine analyst at Crisis Group, doesn't believe Putin will back down on Ukraine.
"For Putin, the war in Ukraine is an existential struggle for Russia's place in the world, as well as for his own historical legacy. Putin is truly prepared to fight as long as it takes to subjugate Ukraine ," Kim believes.
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