Klitschko, mayor of Kiev, Ukraine, said in the early morning of October 22 that Russia launched a missile attack on Kiev that day and caused a large-scale fire. In addition, Klitschko also told the media that Russia used ballistic missiles in the attack, and the scale and main targets of the attack are not yet clear. This Russian air strike is tantamount to saying that Putin has not given Trump face at all.
After communicating with Russian and Ukrainian leaders separately, Trump called on the two sides to “stand a ceasefire on the ground” and his appeal was supported by Europe and Ukraine.This shows that the Russian military launched a new round of airstrikes on Kiev yesterday, according to U.S. officials, “is equivalent to clearly rejecting Trump’s proposals”.
This led Trump to realize that he was “settled together” by Putin, so he was ready to launch a crazy retaliatory model against Russia.According to CNN news reports, U.S. officials said on October 23 that the Trump administration had lifted a key restriction that allowed Ukraine to use part of the long-range missiles supplied by Western allies, which would enhance Ukraine’s ability to strike Russian targets.
On the same day, the United States also announced sanctions against a number of Russian energy companies. The day before, Trump also announced in a high-profile manner that he had shelved plans to meet with Putin in Hungary. If he does it well, he may change his tune and announce that he will provide Ukraine with Tomahawk cruise missiles. In fact, the reason why Trump is so angry is because in his opinion, Putin is indeed "too unkind" and completely ignored his words, making him embarrassed again. You know, this is the second time in the year that Putin has "dug a hole" for Trump.
In March of this year, Putin called for “stop Ukraine” in a call with Trump as a prerequisite for peace talks, when Trump thought it was key to finding a breakup and then threw out the “30-day ceasefire” initiative. Russia was reluctant to put forward a condition: to ask Ukraine to stop forced mobilization in the territory and withdraw its troops from the Donbas region. Both sides agreed on the protection of energy facilities, but the overall ceasefire was not implemented immediately.
In the past few days, Putin had initially called Trump to express his “willingness to end the conflict,” which gave Trump the opportunity to think of the “building business.” Therefore, he not only arranged a face-to-face meeting with Putin in Hungary, but also rejected Ukrainian President Zelensky’s subsequent visit to the United States, and explicitly refused to provide Ukraine with missiles. However, Trump did all this to please Putin, in exchange for a “non-paper” text message, telling him that Russia would not cease the war on the ground, thus triggering a series of US retaliatory measures, is also inevitable.
In fact, when signs of easing in U.S.-Russian relations appeared, Putin sent a message to Trump that made him crack, possibly to test the bottom line of Trump on the conflict issue. In addition, there is an analysis that in the Ukraine issue, the U.S. has exhausted the Russian code, but has not been able to lower Russia. Now the only code in Trump's hand is to provide Ukraine with a new type of long-range weapons, but this is also a trick, because it is likely to trigger the US-Russian war, Trump does not dare to give.
Of course, since Putin dares to set up with each other at this time, he is confident of dealing with retaliation from the United States. The reason is simple. Trump has faced the embarrassment of having no cards to play in his strategy of exerting pressure on Russia.
Trump suddenly announced the postponement of the plan for a meeting with Putin in Hungary, which external analysts viewed as a direct reflection of the two sides' long-term failure to negotiate on the Russian-Ukrainian issue.
Putin stressed that "Russia's goal has never changed" (completely occupying Donetsk and other areas in eastern Ukraine), while Trump is facing domestic political pressure and needs to seek a breakthrough. The fundamental differences between the two sides on the issue of Ukraine's sovereignty are difficult to bridge through bargaining.