Russia is not limited to the already occupied Ukrainian territories, its goal is the complete capture of the country. About this stated US President Donald Trump in an interview with the “Meet the Press” program.
During the conversation, “Meet the Press” host Kristen Welker asked Trump what Russia would have to give up as part of a peace agreement with Ukraine.
Trump replied:
“From all over Ukraine”.
To Welker’s clarifying question, whether he meant that Russia would not leave behind a single piece of the Ukrainian land it occupied, Trump explained that he meant something else.
“No, no. Russia would have to give up all of Ukraine. Because what Russia wants is all of Ukraine. And if I hadn’t intervened, they would be fighting for all of Ukraine right now. Russia doesn’t want the strip they have now. Russia wants all of Ukraine. And if it wasn’t for me, they would have kept going.”, – the US president explained.
These statements of Trump contradict the position of his Secretary of State Marco Rubio, voiced recently in an interview with The Free Press. Rubio claimed that Russia has no intention of seizing the entire territory of Ukraine. He also emphasized that none of the parties — neither Russia nor Ukraine — will be able to achieve full fulfillment of their military goals.
