{"id":6170,"date":"2025-02-13T13:47:14","date_gmt":"2025-02-13T10:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/?p=6170"},"modified":"2025-02-13T13:47:14","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T10:47:14","slug":"best-day-for-russia-sell-out-of-ukraine-and-eu-dismay-global-media-reacts-to-trump-putin-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/?p=6170","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Best day\u2019 for Russia, \u2018sell-out\u2019 of Ukraine and EU dismay: Global media reacts to Trump-Putin call"},"content":{"rendered":"

The historic talks left Kiev\u2019s backers in shock while raising the prospect of a \u201cgrim\u201d peace deal, Western outlets argue<\/strong><\/p>\n

The historic phone call between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart, Donald Trump, over the fate of Ukraine has left Kiev out in the cold, upended US relations with the EU, and is a major diplomatic coup for Russia, several global media outlets have argued.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, Moscow and Washington confirmed that the two leaders held a highly productive 90-minute conversation, marking the first time a US president has negotiated with his Russian counterpart since the escalation of the Ukraine conflict in 2022.<\/p>\n

Following the call, Trump signaled that he is \u201cOK\u201d<\/em> with keeping Ukraine out of NATO, which has been one of Russia\u2019s concerns for years. He also suggested it is \u201cunlikely\u201d<\/em> that Kiev will regain all of the territory it has lost to Russia over the past decade.<\/p>\n

While Trump dismissed the idea that he is \u201cfreezing out\u201d<\/em> Vladimir Zelensky from the peace process and confirmed that the two had spoken after the Putin call, he suggested that the Ukrainian leader will have to hold elections at some point. Zelensky\u2019s term as president expired in May 2024, with Moscow considering him \u201cillegitimate.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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No NATO for Kiev, Ukrainian territorial concessions, venue for talks with Putin: Key takeaways from Trump\u2019s briefing<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The phone call sent shock waves through the global media, which almost universally portrayed it as a blow to Ukraine and EU countries and a victory for Russia.<\/p>\n

Britain\u2019s Daily Telegraph<\/strong> published an article<\/a> titled \u2018This is Putin and Trump\u2019s world now\u2019, arguing that the US leader had trampled on the Biden-era principle of \u201cnothing about Ukraine without Ukraine.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

The paper added that if Russian and American teams have indeed started negotiations, \u201cit is a great victory for Putin\u2019s world view\u201d<\/em> and \u201ca grim deal that will reward Russia with stolen land and leave Ukraine vulnerable to a second attack in years to come.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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Pentagon rules out Ukraine joining NATO<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Politico<\/strong>\u00a0described<\/a> the Trump-Putin call as \u201cthe moment Europeans and Ukrainians have been dreading for months, if not years,\u201d<\/em> adding that when it finally came, it \u201cstill left Ukraine\u2019s allies in shock.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Bloomberg<\/strong>\u00a0echoed<\/a> this, with its sources claiming that Washington\u2019s key allies \u201chad gotten no notice\u201d<\/em> of the negotiations.<\/p>\n

One unnamed European supporter of Ukraine called the phone call \u201ca sell-out,\u201d<\/em> arguing that the US had caved in to Putin\u2019s key demands even before the talks could start in earnest, as cited by Bloomberg.<\/p>\n

CNN<\/strong>\u00a0called<\/a> the renewed engagement \u201cthe best day for Putin since the invasion,\u201d<\/em> suggesting that the phone call was a watershed after which \u201cUS relations with Europe will never be the same.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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Putin-Trump summit on the way \u2013\u00a0Kremlin<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Trump, the network argued, \u201cdeprived the Ukrainians of a bargaining chip that could have been used to win concessions from his old friend Putin,\u201d<\/em> adding that the US president seems to believe that great powers \u2013 including Russia \u2013 \u201care entitled to expansionism in their regional areas of influence.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

According to the Washington Post<\/strong>, the call was a \u201cbreakthrough<\/a>\u201d<\/em> for Putin, ending \u201cnearly three years of near isolation from Western leaders.\u201d<\/em> It added that in any peace deal, Trump is likely to agree to Russia retaining control of \u201csome or all of the Ukrainian territory it has captured since 2022.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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Trump adviser hails US-Russia \u201cfriendship\u201d<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The Financial Times<\/strong>\u00a0reported<\/a>, citing a number of senior EU officials, that the bloc\u2019s policymakers now expect Trump \u201cto tell them they must pay for Ukrainian reconstruction and deploy troops there to maintain a peace deal in which they would not be involved.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

One FT source predicted that the conundrum would be \u201ca real test of unity\u201d<\/em> for the bloc. \u201cTrump sees us as money. And frankly we haven\u2019t been clear on what our seat at the table would look like in exchange for that money,\u201d<\/em> he reportedly said.<\/p>\n

In a separate analysis, Bloomberg<\/strong>\u00a0calculated<\/a> that protecting Ukraine and strengthening the EU\u2019s military could cost the bloc an additional $3.1 trillion over the next ten years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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