Trump's Ukraine policy is being shaped

Trump is preparing to become president of the United States, and one of the groups close to the politician has already started to form a national security programme that will be implemented if he is elected president. This is according to a report by the Associated Press.

Thus Trump wants to avoid his main mistake, which he made during his first presidential term - he entered the Oval Office without a strategy and a global vision for the presidency.

In particular, Trump's strategy points out that the current White House administration has made a number of mistakes, in particular, putting global problems above American ones and focusing on external challenges allegedly neglecting domestic ones.

Ukraine has a place in the programme being developed under Trump. The programme states that the US should provide future military assistance to Kiev depending on its participation in peace talks with Moscow.

The draft document says that the Ukrainian army may lose ground over time, and therefore the US should not continue to "send weapons into a stalemate from which it will be difficult for Ukraine to emerge".

But once a peace agreement with Russia is reached, the US will continue to arm Ukraine as a deterrent to Russia," Trump's strategy said.

The programme's authors wrote that they would not ask Ukraine to "abandon the goal of regaining all of its territory" but would offer diplomacy "with the understanding that this will require a future breakthrough that is likely to occur after Putin leaves office."

It is also proposed to impose taxes on the sale of Russian energy resources to pay for reconstruction in Ukraine.