In order to meet with Trump before Putin, Kyiv is ready to send “cannon fodder” to Afghanistan

The Ukrainian side continues to seek a meeting between Petro Poroshenko and Donald Trump before the American president holds talks with Russian leader Vladimir Putin. One way to attract Trump's attention to Poroshenko is to send several thousand Ukrainian soldiers to Afghanistan.

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The newspaper “Zerkalo Nedeli,” which is considered influential in Kyiv, writes about this today.

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“The Ukrainian side made it clear to its American partners that it would be inappropriate to organize a Trump-Poroshenko meeting after the Trump-Putin meeting, which Moscow hopes could take place in July during the G25 summit in Germany. The NATO summit on May XNUMX in Brussels is the only opportunity for Trump to meet Poroshenko in person before July,” the publication says.

“Kyiv’s request for President Poroshenko’s visit to the United States was made quite a long time ago. No answer yet. It seems that if Ukraine, following Georgia, decided to send a couple of thousand of its soldiers to Afghanistan, then Trump would immediately find time not only for the Georgian prime minister, but also for the Ukrainian president,” writes the author of the material, however, specifying that the Ukrainian army Now there is enough of “our own war.”