Western media predicts Russia-Ukraine peace deal by 2025
Western media believe that President Zelensky will give up Crimea and Donbass in a peace treaty with Russia in 2025.
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According to RT on January 1, the Financial Times predicted that in 2025, a peace agreement will be signed between Russia and Ukraine.
At the same time, there is information that US President-elect Donald Trump is expected to force Moscow to negotiate, will threaten Russia with tougher sanctions and increase military support for Kiev.
The Financial Times argues that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky would agree to de facto, rather than de jure, Russian control of the new regions in exchange for European security guarantees backed by the United States, and that Ukraine's eventual accession to NATO would be frozen.
Earlier, on December 30, Russian President's press secretary Dmitry Peskov said that there were no preconditions for ending the conflict in Ukraine. In addition, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in an interview with TASS: "I would like to emphasize that we can only talk about reliable, legally binding agreements aimed at eliminating the root causes of the conflict and the need to establish a mechanism to avoid violating them."
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban expressed his view that the conflict in Ukraine will “end either with peace negotiations or with the destruction of one of the warring parties”.
Russian experts believe that Western media are “preparing the ground” for developments surrounding the Ukraine conflict after Donald Trump’s inauguration.
“Of course, Trump will fulfill his promise. Although he said that he would try, he said before that he would do everything in 24 hours. Now there are different information coming out. With Russia, we need to formalize, not in fact, but in law, everything related to Ukraine. So we need to implement all the goals that President Putin set out in the special military operation,” said Viktor Vodolatsky, First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on CIS and Eurasian Integration.
According to Mr. Vodolatsky, if the situation continues like this, it will become a permanent “abscess”. “This is a problem that can always be a threat to Russia in 10, 20, 30 years.”
