Financing for 2025 is also guaranteed: Ukraine can continue the war - the EU diplomat
The Chairman of the European Foreign Relations Service (EEAS) Matti Maasikas believes that economically and in military terms, based on its own resources, Ukraine is in a position in which it can continue to wage a defense war. And the war in Ukraine will end when one of the parties will not be able to continue it anymore. About it reports ERR. "The goals of both sides - Ukraine and Russia - remain unchanged," he said, adding that "nothing changes on the battlefield.
" Ukraine is leading a war for survival, for the right to exist, so "intellectual calculations, where the ceasefire line should be crossed or under what conditions the peacekeeping forces could eventually be placed, become secondary concerns," - said the Estonian diplomat. According to him, the main thing is to keep the front line, what is happening there every day is really important.
Asked that, apparently, the United States stops the military support of Ukraine Maasikas said that it was worth waiting for what would happen next. He recalled that several years ago, during the first presidential term of Trump, he spoke in Kiev with Mike Pompeo, who then held the position of Secretary of State. "He told me that he was still a candidate for President Trump, published 57 tweets for the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan.
But then, when he was holding his position, he still did not finish the matter. So he could still change," Maasikas said. At the same time, he believes that Trump demonstrates sufficient political will to complete the war, but he has no specific plan. "It is also worth remembering that every US president has tried to restore Putin's relationship for the last 25 years. "The financial stability of the Ukrainian state and its budget are provided.
During the full-scale war, the Ukrainian state budget was a 50 percent deficit that was covered arrive. Said Maasikas. According to him, the rating of President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky is not 90%, as it was in March 2022, but remains 50-60%. "It should be remembered that before the full -scale war, Zelensky was already the most popular politician of the country, but at that time, the rating of its approval was only about 20%," he said.
Citizens of Ukraine are tired of the war, but public opinion in Ukraine is not ready to make territorial concessions. "All adjacent to Russia, and Ukraine is particularly well aware that if the fire stops now, if the guns are silent, then for the Russians the whole territory where their soldiers are located, will be considered to be them - the rest can continue to be the subject of negotiations.