May 3, 2025

Russia requested that Ukraine negotiate directly instead of through the United States as mediator.

And the United States said that it does not intend to mediate.

“It is now between the two parties [Ukraine and Russia], and now — now is the time that they need to present and develop concrete ideas about how this conflict is going to end. It’s going to be up to them.”

So per Russia’s request, questions about possible EU membership, territorial ownership, and Russian sanctions relief, are up to Presidents Putin and Zelensky.

This writer suggests that EU membership for Ukraine and full sanctions relief for Russia would economically benefit all sides maximally. And it would be wonderful to peacefully reunite those temporarily separated by the border of Ukraine and Russia.

The United States seems to this writer to have done the right thing and to be doing the right thing for peaceful resolution.

It’s now up to you!

April 20, 2025

President Donald J. Trump’s newspaper

"Hopefully Russia and Ukraine will make a deal this week," Trump wrote in a Truth Social post... "Both will then start to do big business with the United States of America, which is thriving, and make a fortune!"

All sides asked me to save airplanes.

And that would not have been possible without substantial help from all sides.

U.S. peace accomplishments

President Vladimir Putin said to the Moscow Times on March 13, 2025, “We agree with the proposal to cease hostilities.”

The minimum all sides should agree to is a return to the "Minsk Peace Treaty," because it's essentially the same line of control that kept the peace there for almost a decade under an agreement entered into by President Barrack Obama, and that was signed by several European leaders and the Ukraine head of state. The peace agreement held throughout President Trump’s first term in office. It was unnecessarily ended by the Ukrainian side during the Biden administration.

But this writer hopes the Ukrainian and Russian governments might agree to a weapons-free Ukraine from all sides. That seems like the most brilliant way to resolve the matter.