Analysis: Trump's ear is the new front line in the Russia Ukraine War

Cnn
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Do not make a mistake, the actual battle in the Ukraine war is currently not in heaven about Kyiv or Dnipro, where Russian drone attacks have intensified dramatically in the past few days.

Also the slow, grinding progress of the Russian army on the brutal front lines of Eastern Ukraine, as the conflict is decided in its third year, is also decided.

No, the crucial struggle that is knocked out between the warring parties and their allies is for the ear of the US President Donald Trump, who increasingly seems to be frustrated with the efforts to convey peace.

And that's why his phone call, which will later take place with Russian President Vladimir Putin, could be of such crucial importance.

Moscow and Kyiv compete to demonstrate that it is the other who is the real obstacle to peace, in the hope of swinging Trump's changeable opinion on their way, at least for a while.

European civil servants say that they will also speak to Trump before calling Putin, since Trump's view of the conflict can be shaped by whom he speaks of.

Only last month after Trump spoke to the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky with Pope Francis, Trump made some of his most critical comments on Putin and condemned the Russian leader to start a rocket attack on Kyiv.

As long as the call lasts on Monday, Putin, who refused to accept a 30-day ceasefire, will be accepted by President Trump and approved by Ukraine. He was able to enable all business incentives, flattery or poison -Tutin calculations.

Trump and Putin already seem to share an unshakable conviction that they alone have personal authority and skills to pay the Ukraine war, while the Europeans and the Ukrainians ultimately do what is told them.

In the Turkish city of Istanbul last week – the first directly between Russian and Ukrainian negotiators for years – the lower talks seem to be underlined in the past week. It encouraged him to involve himself by calling Putin directly into peace efforts, from which he had recently threatened.

The great Ukrainian fear is that the two guides with President Trump will cook their own peace plan with President Trump, who will then call his Ukrainian counterpart Zelensky, then possibly try to force Putin's conditions back on a new danger of withdrawing the military and economic support of the US military and economic aid.

President Trump also has Russia when he uses it. With increasing victims and a tense economy, the Kremlin undoubtedly wants to avoid warding off an angry and wrapped Trump in order to restore the support of the US war efforts.

As always, the problem remains that neither Russia nor Ukraine are currently willing to accept the minimum conditions of the other to satisfy the other side.

This does not mean that conversation OB is direct, personal or phone-senseless. If nothing else, you can emphasize how far the two sides are really apart.

But which means that even under US printing with a direct phone call with President Trump, both Moscow and Kyiv may still decide to fight for it.