Trump's contacts with Moscow have already begun - politician

He expressed this opinion in an interview with Antin Borkovskyi, host of the Studio West program on Espreso TV.

"We see what Putin's system looks like. He’s not going into this offensive alone - there are North Koreans, weapons from China, Iran, North Korea, and they’ve even pulled out their Oreshniks from storage. They are truly moving forward like a bulldozer. But Trump promised that with his rise to power, the world would change, there would be no wars, and there would be a just peace. The biggest challenge lies in defining what this just peace means for each of us. I am sure that contacts with Moscow are already happening; in fact, I think they may have started earlier," the politician noted.

In his opinion, Trump or members of his team have their own communication lines. It seems that they never lost contact with Moscow and maintain these communications at various levels - business, lobbyists, influence agents, and official communication channels.

"In this sense, a very telling interview was given by an American official who had served as the U.S. ambassador to Moscow for several years, including when Putin began his full-scale aggression. The essence of this ambassador's statement was that it is not worth, and indeed impossible, to imagine negotiating with Putin in the traditional sense of the word, to make any agreements. With Putin, you cannot agree on anything. I believe Trump’s team understands this. That’s why there is a formula that I like, and one that Zelenskyy has repeated - coercion to peace, as the Russians once did in Georgia, or peace from a position of strength," concluded Oleh Rybachuk.

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