NEW YORK, February 26. /TASS/. The plan on the settlement of the Ukrainian conflict by US President Donald Trump does not in any way guarantee that the US would provide aid to Kiev in the event of the resumption of fighting, an unnamed source in the White House told The Wall Street Journal.
According to the source, the upcoming agreement also does not obligate the US to deploy military forces "in the region."
The article notes that French President Emmanuel Macron and UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer are attempting to sway Trump to change the US stance regarding Ukraine.
Macron, who visited Washington on February 24, failed this mission, as the US leader’s position stood unchanged. Now, Starmer, who is to come to Washington at the end of the week, hopes "that a combination of warm words, promises of more military spending and shared British-American history can help him persuade the US president to adjust his course," the newspaper noted.
According to it, "much is at stake for Europe. Trump’s decision to press for a rapid peace in Ukraine risks playing into Russian President Vladimir Putin’s hands and upending 80 years of trans-Atlantic security ties."
On February 23, US national security adviser Mike Waltz said that the United States was modifying its approach to engaging with Russia and providing assistance to Ukraine. According to him, Trump and Putin’s telephone conversation, as well as the talks between the Russian and US delegations in Riyadh became the first step toward Washington’s policy change. The second stage of this process will be represented by US leader’s communication with his French and British counterparts.