{"id":1406929,"date":"2026-06-18T13:03:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T10:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/zelenskyys-meeting-with-trump-will-the-g7-summit-be-a-step-towards-peace\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T13:03:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T10:03:19","slug":"zelenskyys-meeting-with-trump-will-the-g7-summit-be-a-step-towards-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/zelenskyys-meeting-with-trump-will-the-g7-summit-be-a-step-towards-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelenskyy&#8217;s meeting with Trump: will the G7 summit be a step towards peace?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Source: Author&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/portnikov\/posts\/pfbid025YmFMSnfz3U8e7LXM3kL4vU5zjPbUgmzfYFiscwYTswfJdqNBzMoAa817Yunk97Al\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a> page<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <strong>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy took advantage of his American counterpart&#8217;s anniversary to congratulate him and talk about an upcoming meeting during the Group of Seven summit. The very fact of this meeting is telling.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> More than four years after the start of the great Russian-Ukrainian war, the leading powers of the civilized world can neither ignore the continuation of this conflict nor resolve it. Moreover, the President of the United States is clearly interested in achieving at least a ceasefire on the Russian-Ukrainian front before the congressional elections. After all, this would indicate serious achievements of the administration in foreign policy.<\/p>\n<p> The question is whether this can be realistically achieved and what Trump and Zelensky will discuss in this regard during their upcoming meeting. I have always said that ending the war depends primarily on Putin. After all, if the aggressor stops its military actions, there are no problems with either a ceasefire or peace. Putin also spoke with Trump and congratulated him on his birthday. And we saw again that the Russian president has no interest in ending the war with Ukraine. That he is interested in the war continuing, Ukraine being destroyed, and Zelensky being humiliated. After all, during his conversation with the American president, his Russian counterpart once again reminded that he is ready to meet with the Ukrainian leader only in the Russian capital. That is, he is inviting Zelensky to surrender.<\/p>\n\t\t<aside class=\"shortcode-also\" data-title=\"Read also\" >\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/zelensky-and-trump-will-meet-at-the-g7-talks-will-take-place-today\/\">Zelensky and Trump will meet at the G7: talks will take place today<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\n<p> But nothing else was expected from Putin: the Russian president has long lived in his own reality and stubbornly ignores the fact that his troops are failing to achieve the expected results. Putin, like any dictator, is confident that time is on his side and that he can afford to waste as much time as he wants to achieve the goals he has planned.<br \/> But now the end of the war depends not only on Putin. It also depends on Zelensky. That is, on how the Armed Forces of Ukraine will act in the coming months, whether they will be able to shake up Russia&#8217;s economic and energy potential.<\/p>\n<p> We are already hearing news that was not there in the first years of this war. And about the real fuel crisis, and about the beginning of the isolation of the occupied Crimea, and about the threat to the land corridor that Russia has laid through the occupied Ukrainian territories to Crimea, and about fires at the factories of the military-industrial complex, and about problems in Russian oil refining. And I have no doubt that in the coming months and years, all these problems for Russia will increase.<\/p>\n<p> The question here is different: how to prevent the destruction of Ukraine, the destruction of Ukrainian infrastructure under Russian strikes, the growth of economic and demographic problems. And here we cannot do without the help of Western allies, without the help of the United States. The Ukrainian air defense system works incredibly professionally, actually neutralizing the vast majority of drone attacks and missiles of various types. However, it is powerless against ballistics in a situation where there are no missiles for the Patriots. And this, by the way, could become an important topic for the negotiations between Trump and Zelensky &#8211; so that Ukraine moves from the back of the queue for these missiles to the front lines.<\/p>\n\t\t<aside class=\"shortcode-also\" data-title=\"Read also\" data-right>\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/ukraine-has-disappeared-from-us-priorities-why-it-benefits-zelensky\/\">Ukraine has disappeared from US priorities: why it benefits Zelensky<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\n<p> After all, if we neutralize Russian attacks on Ukraine and make Ukrainian attacks on Russia more effective, this will be the key to a quick end to the war. If Russian strikes do not achieve their goals, and Russian troops do not advance &#8211; and at the same time Ukrainian strikes bring the Russian economy to its knees &#8211; then even such a stubborn rascal as Putin will be forced to think about the need to end hostilities. At least for the time it will take him to prepare for a new war. And he should not be given such a chance either &#8211; by turning Ukraine into a fortress and further developing our country&#8217;s military-industrial complex, with the understanding that Ukraine&#8217;s fate is its protection from Russia. At least for decades of domination in the neighboring country by this chauvinistic regime.<\/p>\n<p> But if the United States fails to provide such support and, on the contrary, encourages Ukraine to make political concessions to Russia and give up its own territories, then a mutual exchange of blows will simply destroy both countries and will not lead to any results. We will live in a war that can turn from a war of armies into a war of missiles, and we will watch as ballistics turns Ukrainian cities into territory unfit for life. And this is certainly not the end that either Ukraine or the United States would like to achieve.<\/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<p> <span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><em>\u2022 Materials published in the \u201cOPINIONS\u201d section reflect the opinion of the author of the publication, who bears full responsibility for the accuracy of the information.<\/em><\/span><br \/> <span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><em>\u2022 The editorial staff of prm.ua may not share the opinions expressed in the author&#8217;s material.<\/em><\/span><br \/> <span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><em>\u2022 The owner of the webpage in the \u201cOPINIONS\u201d section is the author of the publication.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Author&#8217;s Facebook page Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy took advantage of his American counterpart&#8217;s anniversary to congratulate him and talk about an upcoming meeting during the Group of Seven summit. The very fact of this meeting is telling. More than four years after the start of the great Russian-Ukrainian war, the leading powers of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":1406814,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76893],"class_list":["post-1406929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1406929","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=1406929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1406929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1406814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1406929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1406929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}