MOSCOW, August 26. /TASS/. Kiev’s partners seek to push the US to bolster Ukraine’s positions; Syria and Israel ready to make a security agreement; and a Ukrainian strike on the Druzhba oil pipeline heightens Kiev’s tensions with Hungary and Slovakia. These stories topped Tuesday’s newspaper headlines across Russia.
Security guarantees have recently become the focus of efforts to pave the way for talks on resolving the conflict in Ukraine. Experts interviewed by Izvestia say that Western allies are trying to persuade the United States to reinforce Kiev’s positions. While the Kiev visit by US President Donald Trump’s Special Envoy Keith Kellogg is aimed at promoting a political solution to the conflict, European countries such as Germany, the United Kingdom and Norway, as well as Canada, are expanding military assistance to the Ukrainian armed forces.
Trump has given clear orders to his administration to launch peace talks on Ukraine, so Kellogg’s mission is to persuade Kiev to agree to surrender territory. In contrast, European nations and Canada in no way want the conflict to end on such terms, German political scientist Alexander Rahr pointed out. However, they don’t have a strategy, only the tactics of supplying Ukraine with weapons and making Trump accept that.
