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Negotiations in Geneva on Ukraine, media reports: "The US is considering a wall along the ceasefire line." Trump: "No gratitude from Kiev."

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Long-range Tomahawk missiles, the removal or modification of military caps, and the construction of a security wall along the ceasefire line: these are some of the options raised by US officials to strengthen security guarantees for Kiev, confided to the authoritative Washington Post foreign policy commentator David Ignatius. The same sources reported that the Geneva talks will be a flexible negotiation, not a direct order to Kiev. US officials have acknowledged that"security guarantees are not yet sufficiently robust" in Trump's 28-point peace proposal. For example, Ignatius writes, Trump could increase or remove the proposed 600,000-man cap for the Ukrainian military. And to strengthen post-war deterrence, officials are considering providing Ukraine with Tomahawk missiles if a peace agreement is reached, believing that Kiev would not use them preemptively against Russia, as that would cost it US and European support. One of the sources also reported that the United States and its allies would help Ukraine build a security"wall" along the ceasefire line, using advanced technology, to reassure Kiev about the security of that area, which is supposed to be under Russian control but demilitarized."Ukraine's sovereignty can never be compromised. This would open the floodgates in Europe," a key official told Ignatius."We don't want to see Ukraine collapse," he continued, evoking the risk of a"second Yugoslavia," whose disintegration in 1991 sparked a decade of regional conflict. As for the clause providing for a post-war amnesty, Ignatius reports, it was inserted at Ukraine's request, to reassure Zelensky and members of his government that they will not be prosecuted if the current corruption scandal widens. According to the same sources, Ukrainian Secretary of National Security Rustem Umerov reportedly told US envoy Steve Witkoff in a recent meeting in Florida that Zelensky might be willing to compromise on the crucial issue of exchanging territories in Donetsk for a peace agreement. Umerov also reportedly said that Ukraine might be willing to limit its army to 600,000 troops. After this cap sparked a storm of protests, one of the sources reported that it could be increased or removed entirely, as it doesn't actually alter the balance of power, which in any case favors Russia.

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