Trump reportedly backs Putin idea of Chinese peacekeepers in Ukraine

Sources told the publication that Trump allegedly supported the idea of deploying Chinese peacekeepers in Ukraine. Last week, during a meeting at the White House with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, he proposed sending Chinese soldiers to Ukraine to monitor a neutral zone along the 1,300-kilometer front line of Ukraine.

According to the sources, European leaders rejected this plan, as did the President of Ukraine. Earlier, Zelenskyy and Europe indicated that China provides the Russian regime with critically important support in the war.

The White House, for its part, said this is not true. Trump, they said, did not propose Chinese peacekeepers for Ukraine.

"This is false" and "no discussion of Chinese peacekeepers" one senior official told the publication.

The publication recalls that the idea of involving China is not new. Russia first raised the issue of peacekeepers from Kremlin-allied China back in the spring of 2022 during the first negotiations with Ukraine in Istanbul. It was planned that the "guarantor states" of a peace agreement would be the United States, the United Kingdom, France, China, and Russia.

However, much has changed since then. At the time of the proposal, the Kremlin had significant influence and occupied large parts of Ukrainian territory, with Russian troops standing near Kyiv. Zelenskyy rejected Russia's demands, and Russian soldiers were pushed all the way back across the border into Belarus, liberating a large area from occupation.

Attempt to make Kremlin ally a security guarantor

Not long ago Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov stated that Ukraine's security guarantees should be provided on an equal basis by countries such as China, the United States, the United Kingdom, and France.

After this, Zelenskyy emphasized that Ukraine does not consider China as a possible security guarantor after the war, since such guarantees can only be given by countries that actually provide real help. At the same time, China helps Russia, supplies critical goods and technologies, and also finances the war. Moreover, it was already a guarantor under the Budapest Memorandum of 1994 – but failed to fulfill its obligations.

In response, China declared that it supposedly wants to participate in finding ways to resolve Russia's war against Ukraine. However, it continues to call the war in Ukraine a crisis. And recently, information about the territorial division of Ukraine mysteriously disappeared from the website of China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Why China continues to support Russia in the war, what Ukraine's Western partners are doing to stop this, and why so far without success – read in the material of RBC-Ukraine.