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Trump administration’s deals matter more than Ukraine’s sovereignty, expert says

From Dagens Nyheter · () Swedish

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  • U.S. envoys are holding peace negotiations in Moscow, but analyst Jakob Hedenskog says the Trump administration is not exerting enough pressure on Russia.
  • Hedenskog says European countries are too weak to apply that pressure on their own, leaving Ukraine’s sovereignty vulnerable in the negotiations.

The Trump administration’s deals appear to matter more than Ukraine’s sovereignty, according to Jakob Hedenskog, an analyst at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs.

U.S. envoys are conducting peace negotiations in Moscow over the weekend. But Hedenskog says Washington is not putting the necessary pressure on Russia to change the Kremlin’s position in the war.

“And the Europeans are too weak to do it on their own,” he says.

The assessment presents Europe as unable to compensate for the pressure that Hedenskog believes the United States is withholding from Russia.

And the Europeans are too weak to do it on their own.

· Jakob HedenskogThe analyst said European countries could not independently apply enough pressure on Russia to change the Kremlin’s position in the war.
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