Trump loses patience with Ukraine, Russia's chances of peace increase

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In a meeting of the G20 foreign ministers on Thursday, China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi expressed that a "window for peace in Ukraine opened". This was done at a time when the Trump administration did its efforts to end the end of the War reinforced and working closely with Russia.

high diplomacy and important conversations

Wang Yi met on the edge of the conference in South Africa with his Russian colleague Sergey Lavrov. This was the first high-ranking meeting between the two narrow partners, since US President Donald Trump with a In the direction of Moscow the American attitude has changed to the conflict. Trump officers had bilateral conversations with Moscow and practiced a Flut-like criticism of the Ukrainian President Wolodymyr Selenskyj.

china supports peace efforts

During the meeting in Johannesburg,

Wang said that China "supports all efforts to secure peace, including the latest consensus between the USA and Russia". He added that a "window for peace opens" in relation to the war. According to a Russian message, the issues of war and US relationships were treated during the meeting between Wang and Lavrov. The two sides praised their growing cooperation.

Take the causes of the conflict

In terms of Ukraine, both countries seemed to agree that it was necessary to set the “causes of the conflict” - which was interpreted as an indirect allusion to NATO. Russia Started his full scale of Ukraine almost three years ago, which demanded tens of thousands of victims and sold about 10 million people. The invasion also devastated Ukrainian cities and led to war crimes on the part of the Moscow armed forces.

Trump and Selenskyj in conflict

The sharp turn of the US position on the conflict became clear on Thursday when Trump's security advisor Michael Waltz described the "frustration" of the President with Selenskyj after a meeting between the Ukrainian leader and the US Russia-Ukrainian envoy Kellogg in Kiev. "President Trump is obviously very frustrated with President Selenskyj - the fact that he did not come to the table, that he was not ready to take this opportunity to take this opportunity," said Waltz in a press conference in Washington.

The relationships between Trump and Selenskyj

Waltz’s comments fell into the framework of an in -depth ditch between Trump and Selenskyj, which creates additional uncertainty about how the interests of Ukraine are represented in future discussions on the end of the war. Trump has strengthened his criticism of Selenskyj in the past few days and has repeated the wrong claim of the Kremlin that Kiev started war with Russia.

according to Selenskyjs feedback, in which he accused Trump, in a "Desinformation room" Straighted Trump the conflict in a hair -raising contribution on his Truth Social platform by describing Selenskyj as the "dictator without elections".

The way to a possible economic deal

Selenskyj emphasized the interest of Ukraine in strong relationships with the United States after the conversations with envoys' Kellogg. "The meeting with General Kellogg is one that rests hope and we need strong agreements with America that really work," said Selenskyj in his nightly speech to the Ukrainian people.

Kellogg also explained that he understood the security needs of Ukraine after his arrival in Kiev on Wednesday. The negotiations between the envoy and the Ukrainian leader did not end with a joint press conference at the request of the US side, as a consultant Selenskyjs confirmed to CNN.

These events follow a meeting between Selenskyj and the US Vice President JD Vance at the security conference in Munich at the beginning of the month, which means that the diplomatic efforts to solve the conflict are still becoming more important.

In the comments on Thursday, Waltz defended Washington's approach, "shuttle diplomacy", the conversations with Russian and Ukrainian partners separately.

This reporting was supported by Nick Paton Walsh, Gul Tuysuz in Kiev, Alejandra Jaramillo, Alayna Treene, Kevin Liptak, Max Saltman, Victoria Butenko, Rob Picheta and Anna Chernova.