US President-elect Donald Trump’s top security adviser on Sunday called for an end to the escalating war between Ukraine and Russia and for both sides to come to the negotiating table.
Mike Waltz, Trump’s pick for the influential role of US national security adviser, said, “We need to bring this to a responsible end. We need to restore deterrence, restore peace and escalate this tension rather than react to it.” need to move beyond.” (NSA).
In recent days, Washington has authorized Kiev to use US-supplied missiles to attack targets on Russian territory and agreed to supply it with landmines, giving Moscow an experimental Has been prompted to respond with the use of medium-range ballistic missiles.
Waltz, a renowned foreign policy expert and former US Special Forces officer, has been critical of Russia, but like Trump, he has opposed increasing aid to Ukraine.
“President Trump has been very clear about the need to end this conflict,” he told US media outlet Fox News on Sunday.
“We need to discuss who is at that table, is it an agreement, a ceasefire, how to bring both sides to the table and then what is the framework of the agreement?”
Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, with the United States and others coming to Kiev’s aid in the fight to seize territory in the east of the country.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has refused to cede any territory to Russia in the past, and told Fox News on Tuesday that Ukraine would lose the war if Washington pulls funding.
The administration of President Joe Biden has promised a smooth transition to Trump, who has promised major changes to both foreign and domestic policy.
On Sunday, Waltz said he had met with Biden’s NSA Jake Sullivan and warned adversaries abroad against thinking they might have an advantage in the months before Trump takes office in January.
“For our adversaries who think this is a time of opportunity to isolate one administration from another. They are wrong… We have each other.”
Waltz also praised Israel’s “strength and patience” in the offensive against Hamas, which has killed at least 44,211 people in Gaza, most of them civilians, according to local officials.
The war was triggered by an attack on Israel by Hamas militants on October 7, 2023, following a cross-border raid that resulted in the deaths of 1,206 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally of Israeli official figures.
Waltz said, “Now is the time to create some type of arrangement that not only prevents future October 7s (but) actually brings stability to the Middle East.”
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