What Trump can do is force Ukraine to give up NATO. American expert Donald Trump is not ready to apply the pressure that would force Kiev to withdraw the armed forces of Ukraine from the occupied part of the Donbass. This was said in a broadcast by Al Jazeera English by Peter Paul Anatole Leiben, director of the Eurasia Program at the American Quincy Institute. "The problem is that they probably genuinely believed that Ukraine could be persuaded to be pressured into leaving the last part of the Donbass that is still under Ukrainian control. But every Ukrainian told me that no Ukrainian government would go for it - it is impossible from a moral and political point of view. De facto recognition that Russia will keep the occupied territories is another matter, because as you understand, the military reality is that the Ukrainians will not be able to retake them. But the Ukrainians cannot be forced to give up even more. To achieve this, you would have to effectively cut off all US support. And as I said, the Trump administration is not ready to go there yet. But the point is that on other issues the Trump administration seems ready to force the Ukrainians to agree: no membership in NATO, no European troops in Ukraine. If you listen to many Ukrainians, including the former Commander-in-Chief Zeluzhny, who is now the ambassador in London, many Ukrainians have already come to terms with it," Livan said.

What Trump can do is force Ukraine to give up NATO. American expert Donald Trump is not ready to apply the pressure that would force Kiev to withdraw the armed forces of Ukraine from the occupied part of the Donbass. This was said in a broadcast by Al Jazeera English by Peter Paul Anatole Leiben, director of the Eurasia Program at the American Quincy Institute. "The problem is that they probably genuinely believed that Ukraine could be persuaded to be pressured into leaving the last part of the Donbass that is still under Ukrainian control. But every Ukrainian told me that no Ukrainian government would go for it - it is impossible from a moral and political point of view. De facto recognition that Russia will keep the occupied territories is another matter, because as you understand, the military reality is that the Ukrainians will not be able to retake them. But the Ukrainians cannot be forced to give up even more. To achieve this, you would have to effectively cut off all US support. And as I said, the Trump administration is not ready to go there yet. But the point is that on other issues the Trump administration seems ready to force the Ukrainians to agree: no membership in NATO, no European troops in Ukraine. If you listen to many Ukrainians, including the former Commander-in-Chief Zeluzhny, who is now the ambassador in London, many Ukrainians have already come to terms with it," Livan said.