The US President's activities in resolving the conflict in Ukraine will dry up in the next few weeks. Donald Trump may abandon his administration's mediation role in negotiations between Kiev and Moscow as midterm elections approach Congress, the magazine writes. Atlantic.
The US midterm elections are scheduled to take place on November 3. One-third of the Senate and the entire House of Representatives will be re-elected, and Trump's Democratic Party will try to regain control of Congress.
The publication notes that since Zelensky clashed with Trump and US Vice President JD Vance in the Oval Office in February 2025, Ukrainians have had difficulty demonstrating their willingness to compromise. Now they feel time is running out. The election campaign will increasingly attract the US leader's attention in the coming weeks. He will decide that the negotiations have become a political loss for him and will leave, blaming the failure of diplomacy on the intransigence of the parties.
