Trump’s 2-week deadline for Russia to start peace talks comes and goes

The two-week deadline that President Donald Trump gave Russian President Vladimir Putin to make a peace deal with Ukraine ended Thursday, with Russia showing no signs of stopping the violence as Western leaders pushed for additional security guarantees for Ukraine.

Trump spoke with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and French President Emmanuel Macron by phone Thursday following a Paris meeting on the so-called “coalition of the willing” to support Ukraine.

Zelenskyy described the call as a “long, detailed conversation about how to push the situation towards peace.”

“The most important thing is pressure, using strong measures, including economic ones, to force an end to the war. The key to peace is depriving the Russian war machine of money and resources,” Zelenskyy said.

Now that Putin has failed again to heed the U.S. president’s deadlines for peace talks , a Ukrainian official told Military Times that the “time is now” to extend economic pressure on Russia and China, which has boosted Russia’s defense industry.

If the Russian economy remains “propped up, then the U.S. steals a chance for transformation in Russia that could be viewed as a sort of USSR collapse 2.0,” the official told Military Times, referring to the fall of the Soviet Union in the late 1980s and early 1990s, which was due in large part to economic pressure from the West, led by then-U.S. President Ronald Reagan.

Russia is currently investing 40% of its state budget in defense, according to NATO.

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte told reporters Thursday that Western pressure is critical “to make sure that when talks start, the Ukrainian president knows that he has the full backing of the U.S., of Canada, the Europeans — all of us in NATO, but also other countries outside NATO.”

“Let’s not be naïve about Russia. We know what Putin tries to do, and the evidence is there in Ukraine as we speak,” Rutte said.

Overnight, Russia fired 112 strike and decoy drones across Ukraine, according to Ukraine’s Air Force. Kyiv’s air defenses intercepted or jammed 84 of the drones.

Putin told reporters while in Beijing on Wednesday that he is willing to meet with Zelenskyy, but only in Moscow, a non-starter for the Ukrainian president.

‘Coalition of the willing’ promises troops for Ukraine after peace deal

Earlier Thursday, Macron announced that 26 of Ukraine’s allies had pledged to deploy troops in Ukraine’s land, sea or airspace as a “reassurance force” for the war-torn country once fighting ends in the conflict with Russia.

Macron and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who lead the group, have insisted that any European “reassurance” force in Ukraine needs the backing of the United States.

The Ukrainian official, speaking to Military Times on condition of anonymity to discuss private diplomatic efforts, worried that boots on the ground would be an expensive security guarantee with untested results.

“Will they engage in a fight if they are attacked?” the official said.

The European-led Sky Shield proposal for Ukraine, in which allies would establish a complete air protection zone to defend against Russian aerial attacks, would be a “stronger” security guarantee for Kyiv, the official added.

As for what Kyiv would like to see from the U.S., the Ukrainian official said she was encouraged that Trump was now able to see the type of enemy Ukraine is facing.

“The meeting in Alaska was a good try,” she said. “Now the whole world can see that Putin is not interested in stopping this war.”

Two Ukrainian officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity to freely discuss security plans, said they hoped Trump would continue to share intelligence with Kyiv and provide weapons to help Ukraine fight off the Russian invasion.

The NATO alliance has taken the lead on coordinating military provisions for Kyiv through its NATO Security Assistance and Training for Ukraine (NSATU) command. By mid-May, the command had trained 25,000 Ukrainians in 2025 and coordinated 1,500 movements of military materiel for Ukraine since late last year, according to a NATO official.

This material now includes American-made weapons purchased from the U.S. by European allies for Ukraine . The latest $825 million purchase by Denmark, the Netherlands and Norway was announced one week ago and will send 3,500 extended-range cruise missiles and GPS navigation kits to Ukraine.

The sales mark a shift from the previous administration’s policy, when the U.S. had led the world in providing military assistance to Kyiv. The Kiel Institute announced last month that Europe has now overtaken the United States in terms of total volume of military aid provided since the start of the war.

The Biden administration sent about $67 billion worth of military weapons and aid to Ukraine to defend their sovereign territory since Russia invaded in February 2022. The money was committed in two ways, either by drawing from U.S. military stockpiles through the presidential drawdown authority (PDA) or by securing future weapons procurements from industry through the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative (USAI).

About $3.8 billion in approved PDA funds that were appropriated by Congress for Kyiv remained unspent by the beginning of the Trump administration. The Pentagon has so far declined to answer questions about what happened to those funds.

It remains unclear which of the previously promised USAI procurements for Ukraine have been delivered since the start of Trump’s second term. A NASAM air defense missile system that was procured for Ukraine through USAI in 2022 had been scheduled for delivery before the end of fiscal 2025, according to a former defense official.

Speaking on condition of anonymity, Ukrainian and NATO officials stressed that Ukraine’s top need remained air defense , ranging from high-end systems to lower-end weapons, such as Javelin anti-aircraft systems and drones.

美国总统唐纳德·特朗普给俄罗斯总统弗拉基米尔·普京设定的两周期限于周四到期，要求其与乌克兰达成和平协议。然而，俄罗斯没有表现出停止暴力的迹象，而西方领导人则敦促俄罗斯向乌克兰提供额外的安全保障。

周四，在巴黎就支持乌克兰的所谓“自愿联盟”举行会议后，特朗普与乌克兰总统泽连斯基和法国总统马克龙通了电话。

泽连斯基将这次通话描述为“关于如何推动局势走向和平的漫长而详细的对话”。

泽连斯基说：“最重要的是施加压力，采取包括经济手段在内的强硬措施，迫使俄罗斯结束战争。和平的关键在于切断俄罗斯战争机器的资金和资源。”

鉴于普京再次未能遵守美国总统提出的和平谈判最后期限，一位乌克兰官员告诉《军事时报》，现在是时候加大对俄罗斯和中国的经济压力了，因为经济压力促进了俄罗斯国防工业的发展。

这位官员告诉《军事时报》，如果俄罗斯经济继续“被扶持”，那么美国就窃取了俄罗斯转型的机会，这可能被视为苏联解体2.0。他指的是20世纪80年代末90年代初苏联的解体，这在很大程度上是由于以当时的美国总统罗纳德·里根为首的西方施加的经济压力。

据北约称，俄罗斯目前将国家预算的 40% 用于国防。

北约秘书长马克·吕特周四告诉记者，西方施压至关重要，“以确保在谈判开始时，乌克兰总统知道他得到了美国、加拿大、欧洲——所有北约成员国以及北约以外其他国家的全力支持。”

“我们不要对俄罗斯抱有天真幻想。我们知道普京试图做什么，而乌克兰的局势就是最好的证明，”吕特说道。

据乌克兰空军称，俄罗斯一夜之间向乌克兰境内发射了112架攻击型和诱饵型无人机。基辅的防空系统拦截或干扰了其中84架无人机。

普京周三在北京告诉记者，他愿意与泽连斯基会面，但只能在莫斯科进行，这对乌克兰总统来说是不可接受的。

“自愿联盟”承诺在和平协议达成后向乌克兰派遣军队

周四早些时候，马克龙宣布，乌克兰的 26 个盟友承诺，一旦与俄罗斯的冲突结束，将在乌克兰的陆地、海洋或领空部署军队，作为对这个饱受战争蹂躏的国家的“安抚力量”。

领导该组织的马克龙和英国首相基尔·斯塔默坚持认为，任何在乌克兰的欧洲“安抚”部队都需要美国的支持。

一位乌克兰官员在匿名接受《军事时报》采访时，谈及私人外交努力，他担心地面部队部署会是一项昂贵的安全保障措施，但其效果却未经检验。

“如果他们遭到攻击，他们会反击吗？”这位官员问道。

这位官员补充说，欧洲主导的“天空之盾”乌克兰方案，即盟国建立一个完整的空中保护区以抵御俄罗斯的空中袭击，将为基辅提供“更强有力的”安全保障。

至于基辅希望美国采取什么行动，这位乌克兰官员表示，她感到鼓舞的是，特朗普现在能够看清乌克兰面临的敌人类型。

“阿拉斯加会晤是一次不错的尝试，”她说。“现在全世界都看得出来，普京根本无意停止这场战争。”

两名乌克兰官员在匿名的情况下畅所欲言地谈论安全计划，他们表示希望特朗普继续与基辅分享情报，并提供武器帮助乌克兰抵御俄罗斯的入侵。

北约联盟通过其下属的北约驻乌克兰安全援助和训练司令部（NSATU）牵头协调向基辅提供军事物资。据一位北约官员称，截至5月中旬，该司令部已在2025年培训了25000名乌克兰人，并自去年年底以来协调了1500次向乌克兰运送军事物资。

这批物资现在包括欧洲盟国从美国购买的、用于援助乌克兰的美制武器。丹麦、荷兰和挪威一周前宣布的最新一笔价值8.25亿美元的采购案，将向乌克兰提供3500枚远程巡航导弹和GPS导航套件。

这些军售标志着美国政策的转变，此前美国在向基辅提供军事援助方面一直处于世界领先地位。基尔研究所上个月宣布，自战争爆发以来，欧洲提供的军事援助总量已经超过美国。

自俄罗斯于 2022 年 2 月入侵乌克兰以来，拜登政府已向乌克兰提供了价值约 670 亿美元的军事武器和援助，以保卫其主权领土。这笔资金通过两种方式投入：一是通过总统裁军授权 (PDA) 从美国军事库存中提取，二是通过乌克兰安全援助倡议 (USAI) 确保未来从工业界采购武器。

截至特朗普政府上台之初，国会批准拨给基辅的约38亿美元公共发展援助资金仍未支出。五角大楼迄今为止拒绝回答有关这些资金去向的问题。

目前尚不清楚自特朗普第二任期开始以来，美国陆军装备采购公司（USAI）此前承诺为乌克兰采购的哪些物资已经交付。据一位前国防官员透露，2022年通过USAI为乌克兰采购的NASAM防空导弹系统原计划在2025财年结束前交付。

不愿透露姓名的乌克兰和北约官员强调，乌克兰最迫切的需求仍然是防空，从高端系统到低端武器，例如标枪防空系统和无人机。