Have you missed the latest events on the war in Ukraine? 20 Minutes Get the point for you every night. Between strong statements, advances on the front and the results of the fighting, here is the essentials of this Wednesday, February 12, 2025, 1,085th day of war, which saw Putin and Trump discuss “Pis players” on the phone and the United States explain their red lines to Europeans.
The fact of the day
If the conflict must find a resolution, they will draw the strings. This Wednesday Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin this Wednesday staged their cordial, even warm, understanding. Make both public a 1.5 hour telephone conversation, which some commentators already call “historic”, Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin have agreed to launch “immediate” negotiations.
The American president, on his Truth Social network, speaks of an “prolonged and very productive conversation” with his Russian counterpart. “We want to end the millions of deaths linked to the Russian/Ukraine war. President Putin even used my very impactful country slogan: “common sense”. We both believe in it very strongly, ”said the American president. “We talked about the forces of our respective nations and the great benefit that there will one day work together,” wrote Donald Trump
For his part, Vladimir Putin told Donald Trump, wanting to find a “long -term solution” to the Ukrainian conflict via “peace talks”, the Kremlin announced, speaking of a one and a half phone call.
“President Putin mentioned the need to tackle the deep causes of the conflict and agreed with Trump that a long-term solution could be found through peace talks,” the spokesperson for journalists told the journalists Kremlin, Dmitri Peskov.
The Declaration of the Day
« It is impossible. Russia has never discussed and will never discuss an exchange involving its territory ” »
It is in these terms that the Kremlin swept this Wednesday the hypothesis of a “exchange” of territory between Russia and Ukraine mentioned the day before by Volodymyr Zelensky in the columns of the Guardian. Dmitri Peskov also assured that the Ukrainian forces occupying part of the Russian region of Koursk will be “destroyed” or “hunted”.
Not really inclined to chat directly with Ukraine, Russia launched strikes on kyiv on Wednesday. The sign that Vladimir Putin does not “prepare for peace,” immediately commented on his Ukrainian counterpart.
The figure of the day
14. At least. The number of cases of “illegal activities” including a high ranking of Ukrainian intelligence (SBU) intelligence would have been guilty for the benefit of Russia. “It turned out that the chief of staff of the SBU anti-terrorist center worked for the enemy,” the SBU said in a statement published on Telegram, referring to an “extremely complex” operation to unmask this alleged agent. This “taupe”, whose identity has not been revealed, is now continued for “high treason” and risks a heavy penalty.
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The trend
It was the American defense secretary Pete Hegseth who played the messengers. On a visit to Brussels, he traced, very firmly the red lines fixed by Donald Trump on NATO and Ukraine, putting great pressure on Europeans. He notably considered “unrealistic” to consider a return of Ukraine at its borders before 2014, that is to say comprising Crimea. Likewise, Ukraine membership in the Atlantic Alliance after peace negotiations is “not realistic,” said the former Fox News columnist.
The new tenant of the White House wants peace in Ukraine and the end of the “massacre”, recalled Pete Hegseth before the other 31 NATO defense ministers, and their Ukrainian colleague Roustem Oumerov. And, for that, Europeans must commit much more in the field, but also financially. No question for example for the United States to deploy soldiers in Ukraine in the context of a peace agreement, he also warned.
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