US President Donald Trump has brought Ukrainian power plants into play. “The best protection” for the Ukrainian energy infrastructure would be if it was owned by the United States, Trump’s spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said on Wednesday after a phone call between Trump and the Ukrainian President Wolodymyr Selenskyj.
Meanwhile, Selenskyj said his willingness to suspend attacks on Russian energy infrastructure and other civilian infrastructure. This could be “a first step towards an end to the war”, Selenskyj said after the phone call with Trump in the online service X.
Ukraine: Russia violates arrangement
The day before, the Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a 30-day stop of his attacks on energy infrastructure in Ukraine after a telephone conversation with Trump. According to Ukrainian information, Russia already violated the arrangement on Wednesday night.
The nuclear power plants used by Trump have so far been the backbone of Ukrainian electricity production because many coal -fired power plants are damaged. The Kiev leadership also decided to build other reactors. Selenskyj did not respond to Trump’s initiation in his message for the conversation. A special problem with the nuclear power plant is that the largest system in Ukraine, the nuclear power plant Saporischschja, is Russian.
Trump’s proposal follows the logic of the planned agreement on the joint exploitation of rare raw materials in Ukraine. In this case too, US engagement should serve as an economic security guarantee for Ukraine. However, the agreement was not signed after a scandal in the White House when Trump publicly caught Selenskyj. The US government no longer seems to be pursuing the raw material agreement.
Selenskyj contradicts Trump
Wolodymyr Selenskyj contradicts the presentation of the US government on his conversation with President Donald Trump on an important point. While Trump claims to have proposed a takeover of all four Ukrainian nuclear power plants as a security guarantee, according to Selenskyj was only talked about the Russian Saporischschja nuclear power plant. This was said by the Ukrainian President of the newspaper “Financial Times”.
The Ukrainian nuclear power plants are the backbone of electricity production for the war -torn country because many coal -fired power plants are damaged as a result of Russian attacks. The government in Kiev is currently in control of three of the Ukrainian nuclear power plants, while Russia has conquered the fourth in Saporischchja in 2022 and still holds it today.
Whether the largest nuclear power plant in Europe can play a role in future security agreements depends on “whether we can get it back and put it back into operation,” said Selenskyj of the “Financial Times”. With Washington he had explored whether the USA couldn’t get Saporischeschja back from the Russians.
Selenskyj would like to see further air defense systems from Donald Trump
The spokeswoman for the US government center, Karoline Leavitt, said that in the process in the process, one has been much further and over the raw material agreement, almost “got out” and reached a place where you move on a complete ceasefire and permanent peace.
According to the US government, the Ukrainian President also asked Trump for other Patriot air defense systems. According to the US side, Trump agreed to work with Selenskyj, “to determine what is available-especially in Europe”.
Note: This article was supplemented by Selenskyj’s statements in the “Financial Times”.
