Trump expects action from Putin to continue pressure on Ukraine — professor Aizenberg
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Thu, 27 Nov 2025 22:00:00 +0200

Manhattan University Professor Igor Aizenberg expressed this opinion on Espreso TV."I believe that Donald Trump will seek to make a deal with Putin, so at the first opportunity, he will continue to pressure Ukraine. He will also expect certain things from Putin that will allow him to pressure Ukraine's leadership. He will do everything to make Ukraine agree to a de facto capitulation. That is how I see events unfolding. On the other hand, modern European leaders, with the exception of Hungary and Slovakia, understand the historical parallels of this situation well. After all, any victory for Putin in Ukraine will become a serious threat to their countries and to Europe as a whole," Aizenberg explained.The professor stressed that in this situation, Ukraine must coordinate its position with its European allies."I think that Europe will not agree to any capitulatory deal for Ukraine. That is why Ukraine now needs to coordinate its position very closely with the Europeans, so that Trump cannot pressure Kyiv too harshly and so that he backs down, as happened in March and August of this year," he concluded.On November 23, in Geneva, Switzerland, the Ukrainian and American delegations discussed the 28 points of the so-called Witkoff-Dmitriev peace plan, drawn up with the participation of the Kremlin.At the same time, Europe proposed its own 28 points for a plan to end Russia's war with Ukraine: the full text of the proposal has been published.On November 24, the spokesman for the Russian dictator, Dmitry Peskov, said that the Russian Federation had not received any information about the negotiations between Ukraine, Europe, and the U.S. in Geneva, and was also unaware of the new text for a war settlement based on the results of the meetings.Later, Trump expressed doubt about the possibility of achieving "great progress" in the Ukrainian-Russian negotiations.On November 24, the President's Office stated that the 28-point plan, in the form that everyone had seen, no longer exists.The next day, the head of the President's Office, Andriy Yermak, announced that Volodymyr Zelenskyy wants to hold talks with President Trump "as soon as possible" to finalize the peace agreement. The meeting could take place on Thanksgiving, November 27.






