Bryan Lanza, a senior adviser to the winner of the U.S. presidential election, has said that the new administration will focus on achieving peace in Ukraine, not on allowing the country to return territories occupied by russia.
This is what Mr. Lanza said on the air of the Weekend program on the BBC World Service, reports the portal of the British broadcaster BBC.
A Trump adviser since 2016 and a Republican Party strategist said the Trump administration will ask Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to present his version of a "realistic vision for peace."
"And if President Zelenskyy comes to the table and says, well we can only have peace if we have Crimea, he shows to us that he's not serious… When Zelenskyy says we will only stop this fighting, there will only be peace once Crimea is returned, we've got news for President Zelenskyy: Crimea is gone… And if that is your priority of getting Crimea back and having American soldiers fight to get Crimea back, you're on your own," Lanza emphasized.
He did not mention the occupied territories of the east of Ukraine, but said that the return of Crimea to Ukraine is unrealistic and "not the goal of the United States."
It should be noted that Ukraine never asked the U.S. to send its military to fight against russia, it was only about military assistance.
Lanza said he has great respect for the Ukrainian people, describing them as having "hearts made of lions". But, according to him, the U.S. priority is "peace and to stop the killing."
"What we're going to say to Ukraine is, you know what you see? What do you see as a realistic vision for peace. It's not a vision for winning, but it's a vision for peace. And let's start having the honest conversation," he said.
Trump's adviser also criticized the support that the Biden-Harris administration and European countries gave to Ukraine after russia's full-scale invasion in February 2022.
"The reality on the ground is [that] the European nation states and President Biden did not give Ukraine the ability and the arms to win this war at the very beginning and failed to lift the restrictions for Ukraine to win," he said.
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