Key points
- Two Russian ballistic missiles arrived in the center of the city of Northern Ukraine of Sumy on Sunday.
- The attack killed 34 people and wounded 117 in the most fatal strike on Ukraine this year, authorities said.
- The president of the United States, Donald Trump, has been trying to negotiate a high fire agreement between Russia and Ukraine.
The president of the United States, Donald Trump, said during his election campaign that he would end the Russia-Ukraine War “the first day”, but months after assuming the position, the conversations between Russia and the United States have not been mistaken to anything and have not been anything. on the continuous military commitment in the region.
In what is said to be the most deadly attack against Ukraine in months, a missile strike on the He killed at least 34 people on Sunday, authorities said. The leaders of the United States and Europe condemned the attack.
The Secretary of State of the United States, Marco Rubio, described the attack as “horrible” and a “tragic reminder of why President Trump and his administration are putting so much time and effort to try to end this war and achieve lasting peace.”
The strike occurred two days after the US presidential envoy, Steve Witkoff, traveled to Russia to meet with President Vladimir Putin and boost Trump’s efforts to end the war.
But experts believe that the way to end a war that extends for more than three years and killed Miles still without being clear.
A man cries on a bus that was beaten by a Russian missile in Sumy, Ukraine. Fountain: AAPA / Volodymyr Hordiiienko/AP
What is blocking a high fire between Russia and Ukraine?
The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, has repeatedly said that his country is willing to undertake a high fire.
“But the greatest obstacle is Russian interests,” researcher at the Center for European Studies at the National University of the Australian University, Sonia Mycak, told SBS News.
“The Putin regime shows absolutely no indication of wanting to reduce their attacks. On a day of religious importance for Christians, Ramos Sunday, the Russian army unleashed two ballistic missiles in the center of Sumy.”
The French president, Emmanuel Macron, said the attack highlighted the urgent need to impose a high fire in Russia.
In February, American and Russian officials met in Saudi Arabia for their first face to face conversations from the invasion, where the former tried to negotiate a high limited fire between Russia and Ukraine in the Black Sea.
But this collapsed when Russia requested the elimination of the sanctions imposed after its 2022 Ukraine invasion.
Since then, Trump has said that he is “very angry” and “angry” with Putin for the lack of progress made in the conversations of the United States and Russia.
He has returned from his promise to finish the war on the first day, first extending the promise to six months, and then said he was being “a little sarcastic” over a period of 24 hours.
Matthew Sussex is an associated professor at the Center for Strategic Defense Studies of the National University of Australia that specializes in the Russian Security and Defense Policy.
He told SBS News that the United States is forcing Ukraine concessions, but exerting minimal pressure on Russia to come to the table.
“If you were in the Kremlin and looked at how the United States went to negotiations and the great agreement of Alto El Fuego, then you will have seen that Americans have given virtually all their diplomatic capital that they could have used,” he said.
“And you never interrupt your adversary when you are making a mistake.”
He said that Trump’s desire for being loved by dictators as Putin stands on the path of a peace agreement “, as is the fact that the United States” does not understand how to treat Russia “and should be forcing to agree and make concessions.
Is Trump’s negotiation style helping or hindering a high fire?
In March, a burning meeting between Zelenskyy, Trump and the American vice president JD Vance ended abruptly, from Zelenskyy.
Mycak, who is of Ukrainian descent, believes that the Trump administration is demonstrating to be ineffective in negotiations.
“The president’s attitude towards Ukraine, the victim of an unpaved invasion, is erratic at best and biased in the worst,” he said.
“The United States has lost credibility as a fair and balanced negotiator.”
Sussex said the Ukrainian side probably sees Trump employees as “reliable as the Kremlin.”
“If there is a stop the fire, I would expect it to be quite partial, quite temporary and broken on both sides practically immediately,” he added.
“There seems to be a very easy way to get out of this war, mainly because for the two parts in question, they have fought with each other and, as a result, there is no real reason for them to stop.”
Putin said this month that before he could accept the fire, he would need to know the future of Ukrainian troops in the Kursk region of Russia, if Ukraine would use the time to mobilize the troops and rearm them and if the high fire could be verified to their standards.
Ukraine has demanded the release of all civil prisoners and detainees and expressed a desire for Russian security guarantees and territory concessions, all of which have been rejected in peace conversations.
How are Russia and Ukraine to continue the fight?
Russia has relentlessly attacked Ukraine in recent weeks, intensifying its last invasion that has continued for more than three years.
Sumy has been under increasing pressure since Moscow withdrew many of Ukraine’s troops from its Kursk region within Russia, through the border.
Ukraine warned for weeks that Russia could set up an offensive in the city.
Sussex said that many analysts assume that Putin has “basically ininperable” men available to fight Ukraine, but faces national economic problems and will be affected by the fall in the oil prices that he has.
Mycak said Ukraine is better located now than it has been.
“More than 40 percent of the Armament of Ukraine Defense Forces now occurs at the national level, which makes Ukraine less dependent on the military support of other countries,” he said.
“European partners are expanding their support, both in terms of financial and military aid for Ukraine and in recognizing that their own military capacities must increase, for their own protection against possible Russian threat.”
With additional agency-france presse reports.
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