Ukrainian diplomat: Trump not a neutral mediator between Moscow and Kyiv

Former Ukrainian diplomat Volodymyr Shumakov said that "US President Donald Trump is a businessman who cannot serve as a neutral mediator between Moscow and Kyiv."

Speaking in an interview with Al Arabiya FM, Shumakov added that "Ukraine has proposed an open-ended truce to Russia as a path toward genuine negotiations, while Trump has introduced a new formula but is unable to remain impartial."

Shumakov continued, "It is Russia that refuses the truce and to sit at the negotiating table, seeking instead to impose surrender on Ukraine in this conflict," noting that "the US president ultimately wants a stake in a Russian-American oil company."

It is worth noting that phone talks between Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin resulted in an agreement to resume Russian diesel exports to global markets in exchange for a partial lifting of US sanctions on Moscow, a decision Ukraine has objected to.

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