Milan, 27 August (LaPresse) – ‘We are at the same point we were before the summits in Alaska and Washington. Trump wants to end the war because he likes to end wars. But he is mercurial, friendly today, hostile tomorrow. When he thinks you are an obstacle to his success, he becomes your enemy.’ This is what former Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said in an interview with the daily newspaper La Repubblica. In his opinion, to force Vladimir Putin to sit down at the table, ‘Trump must sell weapons to Ukraine and the Europeans and impose secondary sanctions on Russia’ and "Europe must invest very quickly in the production of its own weapons and those in Ukraine. And move forward on Ukraine's accession to the EU. Putin only reacts when he sees that his opponents are serious.‘ When asked how the parts of Ukrainian territory now in Russian hands should be considered, Kuleba replied: ’They should be left in a grey area. Since we cannot currently retake these territories by military force, nor can we legally cede them to the occupying power, the only viable solution is to leave them in the grey zone and wait for an opportunity to retake them, militarily or diplomatically, in the future.‘ A de facto occupation, not de jure? ’Exactly. Ukraine will never be able to legally recognise this situation as it stands now," he concluded.