US President Donald Trump (R) and Russian President Vladimir Putin speak during their meeting on the occasion of the G20 summit in Hamburg on 7 July 2017.
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With dominating the news agenda with business wars – and with business wars – it is easy to forget that Russia and Ukraine’s soldiers continue to fight for every inch of the frontline area in Ukraine.
The ‘ax of power’ is also in the minds of global policy makers, along with the struggle in Gaza, the economic uncertainty in the US and Europe,, and, along with protesting, and protesting, the ‘ax of power’ is also in the minds of global policy makers, who carry on more than three-and-a-half years of war below Ukraine.
It seems that both Russia and Ukraine are being released into the cold, even with the talks of this week in Istanbul, including the teams interacting with both sides, harassing the media. As things stand, then there is an uncomfortable air when it comes in the direction of the direction of war and possibilities for peace.
Trump lost his patience when he said on 14 July that Ukraine could receive more American-made weapons-until NATO allies paid for him-and Russia gave a 50-day time limit to reach the peace deal with Ukraine. If this does not, he said, Russia will face up to 100%of “very serious” sanctions and “secondary” tariffs.
They could have killed Russia hard, as well as its remaining business partners, including India and China, Russian oil and gasBetween other items.
Russian wildcard
As things are standing, Russia has up to SEPT 2 to show that there is serious about a ceasefire and peace plan – which has made a little progress, Prisoner despite some agreements on swap,
Analysts suspect that the threat of more sanctions would move Russian President Vladimir Putin to come to the table of conversation in good faith, talk to Ukrainian President Volodimier Zelanski alone.
Research Fellow of Ukraine’s National Institute for Strategic Studies, Mycola Beeliskov, has made a stretch between Trump’s demand for a peace deal and any further sanctions.
“Kremlin is typically banking on the fact that under Trump is unable to support the United States Ukraine and pressurize Russia,” Beeliskov told NBC News in July.
File Photo: US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin hold a bilateral meeting on 28 June 2019 at the G20 Leaders Summit in Osaka, Japan.
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He said, “Severe secondary sanctions require a desire to quarrel with China and India, who buy raw materials from Russia,” he said.
He said, “Similarly, when it comes to weapons, the speed and quantity of the supply here and now. Therefore, many known unknowns. And I think Russia believes that America will not dare to impose secondary ban on Russia’s business partners.”
On the mercy of Ukraine, the US and European Largasi, when it comes to the supply of weapons, more desire has been shown to interact in recent months, with Trump, for a ceasefire with Russia, which has become unanswered.
When it was given something for the country’s ‘Holy Tomb’: NATO’s membership for the membership of NATO, it is still a desire to compromise when it prepares the Russian-Quiz Ukrainian region for Moscow.
In this aerial view, the ruins of the destroyed buildings are seen in Chasiv Yaar city on 24 July 2025 in Chasiv Yaar, Donnetsk Oblast, Ukraine.
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But there is little indication that Russia is receiving small but incremental benefits on the battlefield, which will be ready to accept the westernly given security guarantee for Ukraine, in any form, due to its force of manpower and intense drone war.
Disappointment
Worsening cases for Kiev are increasing domestral disturbance, with running martial laws, lack of elections and misunderstandings over the war -time leadership of Zelanceci.
There were protests in Kiev last week against the government’s steps to limit the freedom of two-corruption agencies. Top European Union top politicians expressed hurdle on this move To outlet to PoliticoSaying that it showed a lack of commitment to pursue European democratic values. Combining spatial corruption in Ukraine is seen as a condition for the membership of the European Union, which is Kiev Covets.
The protesters organized placards during the rally against the law, which prohibits the freedom of anti -corruption institutions in Ukraine’s Kiev on 23 July 2025.
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In mid -July, a government also alleged that Zelanski was focusing on power among loyalists, which could also ignite concerns between Ukraine’s international backchers and beneficiaries.
Ukraine Carnegie Russian Eurasia Center senior partner and political analysis firm, R. According to Tatiana Stanovaya, the founder of the Politic, Ukraine is “entering an important stage of internal consolidation.”
,The latest battlefield development coincides with a new American currency: Donald Trump has opted for a strategic delay on decisive engagement, moving operating in Europe, moving financial and political responsibilities in operations, “he said in email comments this week.
“Kiev, meanwhile, is using this interlude to renovate internal. The government recently reshuffled … the Zelanceci administration underlines the intention of strengthening the political control and to maintain harmony on the face of increasing pessimism, institutional inertia and an intense labor crisis,” he said.
Despite increasing Western discomfort about Ukraine’s domestic trajectory, Stanovaya said, “International support is getting more transacted, mainly ready to maintain the front line rather than advancing democratic reform.”
