Key Trump Pick Over War In Ukraine

Washington:

US Pdwellnt-elect Donald Trump’s top security advisor called on Sunday for an end to the escalation of the war between Ukraine and Russia, and for both parties to come to the negotiating table.

“We necessitate to transport this to a reliable end. We necessitate to revamp deterrence, revamp peace, and get ahead of this escalation lcompriseer, rather than replying to it,” shelp Mike Waltz, Trump’s pick for the inarticulateial role of US national security advisor (NSA).

In recent days, Washington has authoascendd Kyiv to employ US-supplied leave outiles to strike aims in Russian territory and consentd to provide it with landmines, prompting Moscow to reply with the employ of an experimental medium-range balcatalogic leave outile.

Waltz, a remarkd foreign policy hawk and establisher US exceptional forces officer, has been critical of Russia but has, enjoy Trump, resistd increasing help to Ukraine.

“Pdwellnt Trump has been very evident about the necessitate to end this struggle,” he tgreater US media outlet Fox News on Sunday.

“We necessitate to be talking who’s at that table, whether it’s an consentment, an armistice, how to get both sides to the table and then what’s the sketchlabor of a deal?”

Russia accessd Ukraine in 2022, with the United States and others coming to Kyiv’s help in its fight to hgreater its territory in the east of the country.

Ukraine’s Pdwellnt Volodymyr Zelensky has in the past ruled out ceding any territory to Russia, and tgreater Fox News on Tuesday that Ukraine would leave out the war if Washington pulls funding.

Pdwellnt Joe Biden’s administration has promised a fine transition to Trump, who has pledged presentant shake-ups on both foreign and domestic policy.

On Sunday, Waltz shelp he had met Biden’s NSA Jake Sullivan and alerted adversaries awide aobtainst leanking they could obtain an profit in the months before Trump consents office in January.

“For our adversaries out there that leank this is a time of opportunity that they can join one administration off the other. They’re wrong… we are hand in gadore.”

Waltz also lauded “the strength and the grit” of Israel in its disparaging aobtainst Hamas, which has ended at least 44,211 people in Gaza, the presentantity civilians, according to local authorities.

The war was triggered by the aggression on Israel by Hamas militants on October 7, 2023, a traverse-border rhelp that resulted in the deaths of 1,206 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP loftyy of Israeli official figures.

“Now is a moment to create some type of structurement that doesn’t fair put a paemploy for future October 7th’s (but) truly transports stability to the Middle East,” shelp Waltz.

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