{"id":1357690,"date":"2026-02-14T12:42:32","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T10:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/mock-negotiations-why-ukraine-and-russia-are-afraid-to-annoy-trump\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T12:42:32","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T10:42:32","slug":"mock-negotiations-why-ukraine-and-russia-are-afraid-to-annoy-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/mock-negotiations-why-ukraine-and-russia-are-afraid-to-annoy-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Mock Negotiations: Why Ukraine and Russia Are Afraid to Annoy Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Western media often fall victim to disinformation through statements by Ukrainian politicians, which creates a false impression of the real state of affairs in the country.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> Investment banker Serhiy Fursa <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qB95BL8Jl80\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">expressed the opinion<\/a> on the air of &#8220;Pryamoy&#8221; that the current talks about a diplomatic settlement of the conflict have the characteristics of a theatrical production, as the parties are trying to demonstrate loyalty to the American administration.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;We don&#8217;t really have a real negotiation process anymore. Both Ukraine and Russia want not to irritate Trump. And that&#8217;s why we are all very actively imitating the negotiation process, understanding that there is no basis for reaching a compromise,&#8221; Fursa noted.<\/p>\n<p> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qB95BL8Jl80<\/p>\n\t\t<aside class=\"shortcode-also\" data-title=\"Read also\" >\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/strange-deadlines-who-is-really-pushing-ukraine-towards-elections\/\">Strange deadlines: who is really pushing Ukraine towards elections?<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\n<p> In his opinion, Western journalists perceive the words of respected officials as fait accompli, without taking into account internal political games. An example of such imitation, he calls the preparation for the meeting in Geneva with the participation of Medinsky. Fursa suggests that sending such a figure to the negotiations may be a certain signal from Putin, although in general the process remains only a shell without real content for achieving peace.<\/p>\n<p> The day before, Kremlin dictator Vladimir Putin&#8217;s spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/novyy-raund-perehovoriv-za-uchasti-rosii-ssha-ta-ukrainy-vidbudutsia-nastupnoho-tyzhnia\/\">the next round of talks<\/a> on the war in Ukraine would take place next week. The President&#8217;s Office confirmed this information, saying that the Ukrainian delegation was preparing for <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/ukrainska-delehatsiia-vzhe-hotuietsia-u-zelenskoho-pidtverdyly-novu-zustrich-z-rf\/\">a meeting in Geneva on February 17-18<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p> Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv appealed to US President Donald Trump to use the political moment to end the war between Russia and Ukraine. The Ukrainian leader declared his readiness for peace negotiations, but emphasized that <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/krashche-bez-uhody-nizh-pohanyy-myr-zelenskyy-ozvuchyv-pozytsiiu-shchodo-perehovoriv-z-rosiieiu-ta-ssha\/\">he would not agree to agreements that were disadvantageous to the state<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p> As is known, in early February in Abu Dhabi, Ukraine, the United States and Russia held another round of talks on the settlement of the war. The parties have made some progress on procedural issues, but <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/perehovory-v-abu-dabi-chy-varto-ochikuvaty-velykoho-myru\/\">key differences remain<\/a> . The most controversial issue in the negotiations remains control over the entire Donetsk region, on which the parties have not yet reached an agreed solution.<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Western media often fall victim to disinformation through statements by Ukrainian politicians, which creates a false impression of the real state of affairs in the country. Investment banker Serhiy Fursa expressed the opinion on the air of &#8220;Pryamoy&#8221; that the current talks about a diplomatic settlement of the conflict have the characteristics of a theatrical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":1357649,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76885],"class_list":["post-1357690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357690","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\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1357690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1357649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1357690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1357690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}