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The full -scale invasion of Russia in Ukraine, fired three years ago, devastated much of the torn nation and killed thousands of Ukrainian civilians.
Both sides have lost a huge number of soldiers.
But now on the streets in Russia, some hope the possible end of the war and the sanctions imposed from the West. Some of them are optimistic that hostility to the United States, in its peak with former President Joe Biden, may end when President Donald Trump's administration works at Bring The warring parties to the negotiating table.
Fearing repression, all interviewed in Russia for this article refused to provide their surnames given to Moscow's disagreement repression.
Catherine, a psychiatrist from St. Petersburg, who protested against the 2022 war, said he supported Mira at all costs.
“My customers happily say,” Well, Americans are on our side again. This is good because, after all, America is a great country, “she said.
“Everyone understands that it is better to be friends with America than to fight. … Overall, the Russians do not really like to hate, even though they know how. In fact, three years of war have not made the Russians hate Ukrainians massively. They sympathize with them more recently. And if it is possible not to hate Americans anymore, every minute now, then it's great too. “
Elena, also from St. Petersburg, said: “Well done, Trump. Allow it to at least stick them (Presidents Vladimir Putin of Russia and Volodimir Zelenski of Ukraine) at the negotiating table as he raises their evenings. “
Washington's sharp switch to her policy in Ukraine has sent shock waves around the world.
After a tumultuous meeting between Trump and Zelenski in the White House in February, Washington stopped military aid and sharing intelligence with Kiev.
Faced with the prospect of giving up the weight only for Kiev's defense, the European allies of Ukraine were shaken.
French President Emanuel Macron proposed the deployment of peacekeepers in Ukraine as part of a possible settlement and expanding the nuclear arsenal of France.
However, Washington's new position for Ukraine was welcomed in Moscow.
“The new administration (US) is quickly changing all foreign policy configurations. This largely coincides with our vision, “Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Russian reporters recently.
The freezing of military aid is a “solution that can really push the Kiev regime into a peace process,” Peskov added.
On March 5, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who once called Putin “thug” and “gangster”, described the conflict in Ukraine as a proxy war between Washington and Moscow.
Peskov noted that “this completely sounds the position that our president and foreign minister have repeatedly expressed.”
The Russian state media were also optimistic.
“Our idea of peace is clear and obvious: everything will happen the way it considers good,” said the host of the talk show, brought to the Kremlin, Vladimir Solovyov.
“Note that Trump did not say anything about Russia's aggression, did not condemn (US), none of the biden-style insults for Putin-Dori is close. By the way, I also did not hear “we will stand with you as long as it is necessary,” he said, citing a former US president, who once called Putin a “killer”.
The tension between Ukraine and Washington seems to be relieved after the White House Fire Exchange between Trump and Zelenski. A team of Ukrainian delegates in Saudi Arabia agreed to the 30-day end of the US fire in the war. US have also resumed Military assistance and intelligence sharing with Ukraine. Russia said He studies the development carefully.
However, several remained skeptical.
“They have to do something, but what? Trump says one thing today and practically the opposite tomorrow, “said Eugene, who works as a translator and a native of St. Petersburg. “Zelenski has uncertainty, ambitions … And Putin has a huge country with resources, an idiotic vision for history and a crazy friend Medvedev,” she added, citing former President Dmitry Medvedev, who introduced himself as a liberal while he is in service, but now he is more hoking.
Tatiana, a businesswoman from Moscow, desperate.
“Trump is confronted with what Russia has done with its own homeland, its own people, its own economy,” she said.
“Why did Putin face Trump? (Putin) apparently disagree. Apart from (North) Korea and Iran and several other distant countries, no one respects it. … He destroyed so many – so many cities, so many lives – for nothing, for no reason. Huge sums of money are invested in the military industry, but what will happen later when the war stopped? There will be a bunch of unemployed, without money, and in general, it's very scary. “
Although Trump's position to Russia is worldwide from Biden, the new US administration is not completely sympathetic to the Kremlin.
Friday, Trump threatened To hit Russia with additional sanctions if Putin does not deal with the negotiation table.
“Since Trump has been elected president of the United States and to this day I am trying not to indulge in excessive optimism for peaceful settlement thanks to his efforts,” said Alexi Malinin, founder of the Moscow Center for International Interaction and Cooperation and a member of the Digoria Expert Club, said Al Jazeera.
“The conflict is very serious, the positions of the sides are largely irreconcilable and at the moment Ukraine does not demonstrate a willingness for a pleasant dialogue without floating castles and colored in pink glasses. We now see that Europe also supports the detachment of Ukraine from reality. Trump himself, despite the numerous demonstration and insignificant boxes in our direction, can give up his peaceful mission at any moment.
“His negotiation approach is often made up of the fact that if the opposite party does not agree with it, it changes its approach to intense pressure, where it is unpredictable what the result will be.”
Malinin, however, welcomed Trump's apparent readiness to hear Moscow's demands.
“Under the following conditions, a stable peace is possible: Ukraine officially abandons its desire to take Russian territories, refuses to join NATO and guarantees incomplete demilitarianization: it reduces its army, including heavy weapons,” he continued.
“And such an agreement must be officially supported by a wide range of intermediaries: not only US and European countries, but also the countries we trust more – for example, China, India, Brazil, South Africa, Qatar and others.”
The obvious desire of the United States to compromise with Russia may not be shared by the European allies of Ukraine or the Ukrainians themselves.
“I think there is a window of opportunities that can be lost,” senior Russian analyst Oleg Ignatov of the International Crisis Group before Al Jazeera said.
“The problem is that the United States, Europe and Ukraine do not have a unified position. Separation between them can lead to negotiations that are not held or collapsed. “
