Financial Times forecasts path to peace in Ukraine next year
Photo: Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine and Vladimir Putin, dictator of Russia (RBC-Ukraine collage)
Ukraine and the Russian Federation may sign a peace agreement in 2025. However, for this to happen, the 47th President of the United States (USA), Donald Trump, will need to enhance support for Kyiv and increase pressure on Moscow, according to Financial Times forecast for the upcoming year.
As FT writes, to achieve an end to the full-scale war in Ukraine, the United States will need to threaten harsher sanctions against Russia and intensify support for Kyiv. This will help convince the Kremlin to take peace negotiations seriously.
Meanwhile, US allies will urge Trump not to remove the issue of Ukraine's NATO membership from the agenda, at least in the initial stages.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in turn, will agree to de facto but not de jure Russian control over the temporarily occupied territories, in exchange for European security guarantees supported by Washington.
Ultimately, Ukraine's NATO membership will allegedly be frozen.
The end of the war between Ukraine and Russia
During his election campaign, Trump has repeatedly addressed the issue of the full-scale war in Ukraine. In particular, he claimed that he could end it "within the first 24 hours of his presidency." However, experts believe that the Republican’s plan is still taking shape.
Meanwhile, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has called the end of the full-scale war in Ukraine a priority for Istanbul in the upcoming year.
For more details on what to expect at the front and whether negotiations between Ukraine and Russia are possible in 2025, read RBC-Ukraine's report.
