Nov. 10, 2024, 12:02 p.m.

Trump's team distances itself from his adviser's statements on Crimea

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Advisor to US President-elect Donald Trump, Brian Lanza , said the day before that the new US administration intends to achieve peace rather than return the territories of Ukraine annexed by Russia.

The Trump team said that Lanza was not speaking on behalf of the Trump campaign.

"Brian Lanza was hired for the campaign. He does not work for President Trump and does not speak on his behalf," a Trump team spokesperson, who declined to be named, told Reuters.

The day before, it became known that in an interview with the BBC, Republican Party strategist Brian Lanza said that "there is no more Ukrainian Crimea," and the new administration will ask Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to present his version of a "realistic vision of peace."

"And if President Zelensky sits down at the negotiating table and says, 'Well, we can only have peace if we have Crimea,' he will show us that he is not serious," he said.

At the same time, the Trump adviser said that he "does not speak" on behalf of Donald Trump, distancing the newly elected US president from his statements.

In general, Donald Trump's peace plan to end the war in Ukraine may include a demand to refuse to join NATO for 20 years and freeze the front line without returning the territories. However, Trump has not yet approved a specific plan, including how he will convince Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to sit down at the negotiating table.

Earlier, Mykhailo Shabanov , associate professor of political science at the Technikov National University of Kyiv, expressed the opinion on live TV on Intent.Insight that the victory of any of the presidential candidates in the United States will not lead to the termination of aid to Ukraine, but they will act differently.

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Mykhailo Shabanov assessed Donald Trump as a man who likes to be liked, and primarily by Americans. The American audience, according to the political scientist, is less interested in foreign policy, but in this area, the perception of the United States as a hegemonic country is important to them.

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