Will continue to Easter: why politicians and media are actively talking about the rapid end of the war

Focus has collected statements by politicians and the publication of the media as to when it can be appropriate for negotiations between the Russian Federation and Ukraine. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has repeatedly said that 2025 should be the year of the just end of the war and peace. The Head of State also told this in a recent interview for American journalist Lex Friedman. "Ukraine wants peace and the United States. We have to sit with Trump.

This is 100%," the Ukrainian president said, adding that Trump is waiting for this meeting "looking forward", which will be one of the first after the inauguration of the chosen US head. Zelensky is convinced that the Ukrainian issue about the end of the war is "one of the most relevant for President Trump. " "Therefore, I believe in his words and hope we will meet. We need his vision because he can stop Putin because Putin is afraid of him. It is a fact," the head of state said.

Experts are convinced that Friedman's interview is a tactical course of the Ukrainian authorities to reach Trump's surroundings on the end of the war. Experts also note that despite emotionality and verbosity in a three -hour interview of the head of state, it should be noted that "the peace process goes gradually.

" Since the beginning of 2025, leading Western politicians have begun to comment on the probable negotiation process, as well as the possible time when it can happen on a number of reasons. At the same time, on January 6, French President Emanuel Macron said that Ukraine should conduct "realistic discussions" on the return of the occupied territories. According to the head of the French state, it is the United States who should "help to persuade Russia to sit at the negotiating table.

" Specific terms, when Macron may end, he did not speak. After Donald Trump's recent speech, the media actively discussed the fact of probable negotiations as if half a year after the politician inauguration. Subsequently, Trump's Special Representative in Ukraine Kel Kelloggus said that the decision to end the war in Ukraine will be found in the "near time", and the elected head of the United States does not seek to give something Putin or Russians, but seeks to "save Ukraine's sovereignty.

" Subsequently, David Lemmy, the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the United Kingdom, voiced his opinion. The official noted that the terms of reaching a peace agreement between Ukraine and Russia in one day, as Donald Trump said "I think that, judging by what I saw in the last few days, there are signs of a small rollback from this feeling that in some way the agreement will be reached on January 21, I think it is unlikely.

On January 3, Bild wrote that "there are" signs "that Russian leader Vladimir Putin signals the completion in 2025. The media is convinced that the Russian Federation is waiting for elections in 2026, there are problems with the economy and the lack of significant results, so by the end of this year there is a possible scenario of completion of hostilities.

The next day, The Washington Post wrote that in the issue of completing the war in 2025, haste can be a reward for the Russian leader and will be the foundation for new Russia attacks against Ukraine. According to journalists, Ukraine can lose the war if Trump has a disadvantageous agreement for Kiev during the peace talks of Ukraine and Russia. In this case, the country will be separated, the US authority is undermined and Putin is rewarded.

Subsequently, Sky News reported that a peace agreement may appear until April 20. The Yorktown Institute analyst Robert Clark is convinced that the US side will probably offer the belligerent parties some agreement, and everything will be reduced to which mutual concessions are ready for Ukraine and the Russian Federation.

On January 9, CNN wrote that the negotiations of the Russian Federation and Ukraine were planned in the first half of 2025 without attachment before Trump's arrival in the White House.

Unnamed US officials have reported that negotiations should have taken place regardless of the election results, and before the US meetings wanted to strengthen the military capabilities of Kiev at the same time the Russian Federation continues to publicly deny the facts of any negotiations and states that it continues to observe certain positions. On December 26, 2024, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Lavrov stated that a truce with Ukraine was "path".

According to the chief Russian diplomat, Russia needs reliable agreements, not "empty conversations". Moscow allegedly does not put forward the preliminary conditions for negotiations in Ukraine, but requires to fulfill the available agreements. Lavrov repeated the same opinion on December 30. In an interview for the propaganda edition of RIA Novosti, the Foreign Minister said that there is no prerequisite for the end of the war against Ukraine.