{"id":1282741,"date":"2025-08-20T11:53:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T08:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/putin-wants-ukraine-to-surrender-the-west-is-preparing-for-the-failure-of-negotiations-and-increased-pressure\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T11:53:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T08:53:16","slug":"putin-wants-ukraine-to-surrender-the-west-is-preparing-for-the-failure-of-negotiations-and-increased-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/putin-wants-ukraine-to-surrender-the-west-is-preparing-for-the-failure-of-negotiations-and-increased-pressure\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin wants Ukraine to surrender: The West is preparing for the failure of negotiations and increased pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"

European leaders doubt the sincerity of Vladimir Putin’s intentions for peace, but support US President Donald Trump’s initiative to hold negotiations.<\/strong><\/p>\n

According to Politico<\/a> , Europe believes that the upcoming summit could be a chance to expose the “Russian bluff” and strengthen the arguments for introducing new sanctions against Moscow.<\/p>\n

French President Emmanuel Macron said before his visit to Washington: “Do I believe that Putin wants peace? No. Do I believe that Trump wants peace? Yes. But Putin wants to force Ukraine to surrender – that is his real goal.”<\/p>\n

EU diplomats share Macron’s skepticism. One said: “If Putin proves he is not interested in ending the war, it will encourage Trump to act more decisively and become a basis for new sanctions.”<\/p>\n

Despite this, the West supports the American initiative, seeing it as a “test of the Kremlin’s true intentions” and an opportunity to provide Ukraine with security guarantees to negotiate from a position of strength.<\/p>\n

Trump himself admitted after meetings with Putin and Zelensky: “We’ll find out in the coming weeks whether Putin really wants to make a deal. Maybe not.”<\/p>\n

At the same time, European capitals are already preparing for the possibility of the negotiations failing and are preparing a new package of sanctions, which could become a key tool for putting pressure on the Kremlin if the negotiation process drags on.<\/p>\n

As a reminder, the European Commission stated that sanctions against Russia will remain in force and will be strengthened as long as the aggression against Ukraine continues<\/a> . Brussels emphasizes: any negotiations without a real ceasefire will not change Europe’s position.<\/p>\n

As reported, Russia seeks not just to seize part of Ukraine, but to establish complete control over the entire country and remove the democratically elected government, replacing it with a pro-Russian one.<\/a><\/p>\n

By the way, the leaders of the European Union issued a joint statement after the meeting between US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, which took place on August 15 in Alaska. They welcomed the White House’s initiatives for a peaceful resolution to the war unleashed by Russia against Ukraine.<\/a><\/p>\n

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European leaders doubt the sincerity of Vladimir Putin’s intentions for peace, but support US President Donald Trump’s initiative to hold negotiations. According to Politico , Europe believes that the upcoming summit could be a chance to expose the “Russian bluff” and strengthen the arguments for introducing new sanctions against Moscow. French President Emmanuel Macron said […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":1246093,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76874,76885],"class_list":["post-1282741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-war","category-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1282741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1282741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1282741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1246093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1282741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1282741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}