Trump's mission in Moscow and Kiev. Why is Putin calling the shots?

Trump's mission in Moscow and Kiev. Why is Putin calling the shots?

Posted by Maruch on 2026-09-05March/Mission-Trumpa-in-Moscow-and-Kijov-why-it-putin-dicts-conditions

Donald Trump says the problem of war in Ukraine is hate between Zelenski and Putin.

[Burning a fewer twelve Russians alive, bombing the population in Donbasa, killing civilians – that's not important. The most crucial thing is “hate”. most likely due to the incorrect tie – admin]

So he sent Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner first to Moscow and then to Kiev with a peace idea. Emissaries landed in Russia on Saturday. They're due to visit Zelenski tomorrow. A temporary halt was announced during the visit.

From Washington's perspective, it looks like another effort to end the conflict. Moscow shows it differently. Trump wants to take Ukraine off his desk due to the fact that he has a second, inactive open front: Iran. And that's why Putin can make terms alternatively of accepting them.

The war with Iran, launched by the US and Israel in late February, pushed Ukraine to a second phase for months. The same people present who go to Putin and Zelenski — Witkoff and Kushner — had conversations around the Strait of Ormuz and the ceasefire with Tehran. Ammunition, Patriot systems, and White home attention then came to the mediate East. Ukrainian talks are frozen.

American services later reported that Putin read it as Trump's weakness. Since Washington is bound by Iran, Moscow can wait and rise the stakes in Ukraine. CIA chief John Ratcliffe went to Moscow, among another things, to inform the Kremlin not to number besides heavy on the distraction of Americans. The fact that specified a message had to be delivered in individual shows how the Kremlin interprets the situation.

Trump has been treating the war in Ukraine from the beginning as a decline after Joe Biden. He promised to close the subject quickly, which he did not do. Now it returns to it as Iran continues to deplete its political capital, and the United States wants at least a partial cut off of Tehran from support and trade.

For Putin, this is not a request for peace. It is simply a signal that Washington needs order in Europe to master the situation in the mediate East.

Therefore, Russian conditions do not soften. The Kremlin continues to talk about Donbas, the neutrality of Ukraine, its restrictions on armies, sanctions and the written declaration of the West that NATO will not decision further east. Sources akin to Moscow before this weekend said: expectations are low, and Putin will only agree on his own terms due to the fact that he thinks he has the advantage.

The communicative of 2 presidents' individual hatred is convenient. It allows Trump to present an impasse as a character problem, not a power distribution problem. hatred truly exists and makes it hard to talk directly. However, war has not stood inactive for years due to the fact that 2 leaders do not like each other. It continues due to the fact that Moscow wants land and a certain position of Ukraine, and Kiev does not give it back. The Emissaries can bring in a proposal, but they can't change the fact that Trump is the 1 who cares more about putting the subject out.

The production of little advanced Patriots in Ukraine fits into this picture. Washington doesn't want to quit the latest technology, but he wants to show Kiev a gesture. For Moscow, this is not an argument for concessions. This confirms that Americans are looking for a cheaper way to retreat from the front line.

If nothing comes up this weekend but another constructive message, the Kremlin logic will only strengthen. Trump needs to close the Ukrainian front more than Putin needs American approval. In this configuration, the conditions are dictated by the 1 who can wait. And Moscow can wait.

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Comments 2 are “The Trump Mission in Moscow and Kiev. Why does Putin dictate the terms?”

1. Быдлошевский Л.З. Said 2026-09-05 (Saturday) @ 22:05:06 https://www.youtube.com/embed/1NnQMZ1Dghk?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=pl&autohide=2&wmode=transparent 13 minutes. Константин Сивков – a colonel and a very wise man present said that the Banderovt Буданов estimated the monthly losses of his army on 30 000 Banderovt in the period and Putin said that 12,000 The banderer for a period and everything agrees Putin assessed only the killed and the wounded incapable to fight... A good year ago I read in “Rzeszow Nowiny” that it is above
   100,000 Banders without arms, legs, even without 2 hands and 2 legs. The stupid president of the city proudly told that Poland gives these people prostheses and heals them for free...How stupid is Poland...
2. Быдлошевский Л.З. Said 2026-09-05 (Saturday) @ 22:23:15 https://www.youtube.com/embed/eZ6S0NPaRmc?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=pl&autohide=2&wmode=transparent 14 minutes.
3. W Moscow is having talks with Putin and 2 Americans and there are already good films from this gathering and the journalist's comment...