# Peter Zalmayev: ‘Ukraine showed all sorts of cards that Trump took away and gave to Putin’

https://mins.news/en/video/109667

- France 24 English, 2026-10-21 14:44 UTC
- World
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fIYvyOhxjg

> Peter Zalmayev, founder and director of the Eurasia Democracy Initiative, warns from Kyiv that he senses a “Yalta II” and “another Munich (1938),” describing it as appeasement of an aggressor. He sharply criticizes the Trump administration’s approach and says Ukraine’s sovereignty and security could become bargaining chips amid great-power “collusion.”

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