The team of Donald Trump I would be in Conversations with the Ukrainian opposition to try to expel Volodimir Zelenski from the presidency. Some secret contacts that this Thursday reveals the medium ‘Political‘And they arrive while the US president increasingly elevates the pressure on his Ukrainian counterpart, after freeze military aid to the country and also cut, at least partially, the flow of Intelligence information.
Specifically, Four high -level people from Trump’s environment They have spoken with the leader of the Ukrainian opposition, Yulia Timoshenkoand also with high positions of the former president’s party Petro Poroshenko. ‘Political’ quotes as a source three Ukrainian parliamentarians and an American expert in foreign policy, Republican.
Always according to advanced information by ‘political’, these contacts focus on themselves could soon celebrate new ones Presidential electionssome elections that have been postponed – as the Ukrainian Constitution foresees – since the country is under martial law since the Russian invasion began three years ago. Trump’s allies, add the aforementioned medium, are convinced that Zelenski would lose the elections.
The opposite voices to celebrate elections in Ukraine warn that they would be chaotic elections that could benefit Russia, at a time when many voters are fighting on the front or refugees abroad. In recent weeks, however, Trump has been reproaching Zelenski not to celebrate presidential elections, to the point of Buy him as “dictator”. A tension that It exploded last week during the meeting of both leaders in the Oval Office in Washington.
The Republican president also said, several weeks ago, that support for the Ukrainian leader had dropped to 4%, when the figures handled by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology place Zelenski confidence in 52%. Another survey, cited in this case by ‘Politico’, points out that Zelenski would win the elections with 44% in intention to vote.
Trump, determined to bend Zelenski
After the total anger in the White House, it transpired that Trump had decided paralyze military aid To Ukraine, although he was later more conciliatory during his speech before Congress, in which he announced that Zelenski had sent him a letter showing himself willing to participate in negotiations of peace with Russia and to sign the mineral agreement with the United States.
Subsequently, however, the ‘Financial Times’ advanced that the North American country had cut the exchange of intelligence with kyiva measure that could seriously hinder the ability of the Ukrainian army to attack the Russian forces. The director of the CIA, John Ratcliffe, later confirmed this information in the ‘Fox News’ chain, related to Trump, specifying that it is a “selective” and not total cut.
Source: Lasexta
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