The radical change in American politics that closed Ukraine in the midst of conversations to end the war

London – The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, and his leadership team passed a large part of 2024 courteous American generosity.

kyiv seemed hopeful to resist the dramatic return of President Donald Trump to the White House, assuring himself and the world that his campaign alignment with Russia’s narrative would be attenuated by the geopolitical realities of the most powerful office in the world.

But the first month of Trump’s second term has already delivered a radical American pivot. The opening of Russia’s conversations in the United States in Saudi Arabia, aimed at ensuring peace in Ukraine, but carried out without the participation of kyiv, and the subsequent frail of US-Ukrainian ties, raises a new crisis for a nation that He has become living with existential existence with existential danger.

Volodymyr Festenko, a political scientist and the сo of the Center for Political Studies “Penta” in kyiv, told ABC News that recent developments represent “the most acute crisis in relations between the United States and Ukraine throughout its history.”

“In the worst case, this is a strategic turn of the United States towards Russia, the approach with Putin and weakening, or even destruction, the previous relations of the association with Europe and Ukraine,” Fesenko said. “I’m afraid that this is the scenario that will gradually be done.”

“With Trump’s commercial approach to bilateral relations, and with his interest in restoring relations with Russia, the previous special association relations between the United States and Ukraine will no longer exist,” said Fesenko.

The commitment of former President Joe Biden to involve Kyiv in any conversation to end the war was incorporated by the motto “Nothing about Ukraine without Ukraine.” That approach seems to have been replaced by Trump’s transactionalism.

The White House now seems to be signing Kyiv in economic, territorial and political concessions, with Trump himself rebuking Zelenskyy, held by many Americans for his passage from the Stoic War House, as a “dictator without elections” that “moves Better fast or he is not a country. “

Zelenskyy and his senior officials have retreated, noting that Ukraine cannot hold new elections under martial law. Kyiv has said that he is happy to work with the new administration in mutually beneficial economic agreements and security, while urging US partners to treat Moscow’s narrative with skepticism. The Parliament of Ukraine voted on Tuesday to affirm the legitimacy of Zelenskyy and agrees that elections cannot be held while the war continues.

The situation is “more than disturbing” for kyiv, a source close to the Ukrainian government to ABC News told ABC News. “It’s hard to imagine that you can withdraw.”

The leadership of Ukraine is trying to draw a course through the minute field of Trump’s second term, the source added.

“They feel that they are achieving this balance of not being unpolluted or disrespectful when it comes to counteracting some of the things that, again, at the end of the day, no Ukrainian leader can accept,” said the source.

“They feel they are handling it well, which does not mean that they have no anxiety,” they added. “They do it, because it is a fact that trust the support of the United States, it is a fact that Europe cannot completely compensate for that support.”

“They are achieving this balance to go back, but not in a way in which they come out as totally obstructionist and stubborn,” the source continued.

This month’s historic Russian meeting in Riyadh exposed the approach of the new administration to Moscow. The two parties agreed to normalize diplomatic relations and continue the conversations aimed at ending the War of Russia, all without the participation of Ukraine.

Meanwhile, Trump’s offer to gain access to hundreds of billions of dollars in Ukrainian mineral resources without kyiv problems. “We are going to recover our money,” said the president on the possible agreement, the first draft of which Zelenskyy rejected, stating: “I can’t sell our state.”

But after a week of intense negotiations, both parties now suggest that they have almost reached an agreement, with Trump saying on Monday that he hopes to see Zelenskyy in Washington next week.

The investment of the American approach is surprising. Where once they drill and his team refused to interact with Moscow out of an unprecedented sanctions campaign, Trump and his senior officials now praise a rebirth in bilateral ties.

Where they biden once led the “Ironclad” commitment to defend Ukraine against the aggression of Kremlin “during as long as necessary,” Trump falsely suggested Ukraine “should never have begun” war.

Meanwhile, the constant flow of the Biden administration of vital military and economic aid has been replaced by Trump’s impulse to recover what he sees as poorly invested American money. “I want you to give us something for all the money we put,” Trump told CPAC on Saturday.

The president has focused on the value of American aid to kyiv, which states that it is as high as $ 500 billion. Zelenskyy played the figure and said that American aid was granted as subsidies, not loans. The Kiel Institute for the World Economy, a research institute in Germany that tracks foreign aid to Ukraine, said that the United States has contributed around $ 119 billion to Ukraine for three years of war. Most, $ 67 billion, was in the form of military team.

The United States elevator in the United States is being expressed on all fronts. In an extraordinary illustration of Realineration in Ukraine, the United States put on the side of Russia in a vote against a resolution of the United Nations General Assembly condemning Russia, which approved on Monday with the support of the traditional western allies of the traditional western allies of the USA. The UN Security Council approved a resolution drafted by the United States that requested the end of the conflict without criticizing Russia. France and the United Kingdom abstained the UNSC vote.

Zelenskyy has said that Ukraine will not agree with any peace agreement that does not protect him against the renewed Russian aggression. The rapid change in Trump administration policy has pushed European allies to mobilize to provide their own long -term support and protection of Ukraine. Great Britain, France and others are discussing the deployment of European troops to Ukraine to protect any peace agreement.

Although they depend financially and logistically on foreign partners, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are among the most powerful and experienced in the world. Zelenskyy said in January that 980,000 Ukrainians are now under arms, eclipsing any other European army.

Despite Trump’s unseeding statements about the opposite, voting organizations respected in Ukraine have discovered that Zelenskyy retains the confidence of most Ukrainians. Their compatriots want the war to end what they consider fair terms, but a December survey conducted by the survey of the International Institute of Sociology of kyiv indicates that 57% are prepared to carry the load of the conflict during the time that is necessary, Despite strong casualties, continuous attacks. Severe economic infrastructure and tension.

There are more trial days to come. Moscow has said that the United States and Russia negotiation teams will meet for a second round of conversations in the next two weeks.

“It shouldn’t seem that Americans and Russians are trying to reach an agreement on the destiny of Ukraine behind us,” Oreksandr Merezhko, a member of the Ukrainian Parliament that represents the Zelenskyy party, told ABC.

“But what is really important for us is that such communication between Americans and Russians should not lead to decisions related to Ukraine,” said Merezhko, who is also the president of the Foreign Affairs Committee of Parliament.

“I hope it is part of a political game by Trump, who is trying to attract Putin to negotiate to demonstrate to his voters that at least he is trying to fulfill his promise,” Merezhko added.

“That is why we need constant communication with Trump and his team: if there is a vacuum, it can be full of pro-ruse narratives.”

Yuriy Boyechko, the founder and CEO of The Hope for Ukraine Charity, told ABC News that he believes Trump “is taking a side of the aggressor.”

“The Ukrainians will not sign a surrender,” he added. “We will continue to fight to preserve a free and democratic Ukraine, even if our upper ally, the United States, we leave no other option.”

Patrick Reevell of ABC News contributed to this report.