Insider reveals: Putin fearful of Trump and Ukraine war likely to end soon upon Trump’s return to White House

VLADIMIR Putin is “scared to death” of Donald Trump and will be bracing himself against his impending presidency, a key insider said.

Dr. Kevin Roberts, a close associate of the president-elect, has expressed his belief to The Sun that Trump could bring an end to the Ukraine conflict shortly after assuming office.

He said Ukraine will have to make some sacrifices to stop the bloodshed being unleashed by Putin’s meatgrinder forces.

According to Roberts, this resolution would involve relinquishing the Russian-controlled areas in eastern Ukraine, including Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson.

As the head of the Heritage Foundation think tank, Roberts highlighted the necessity for Kyiv to abandon its aspirations of joining NATO for the peace agreement to have a chance at success and halt the ongoing violence.

Roberts told The Sun: “Under Donald Trump, the Ukraine war will be done in days.

“Putin is scared to death of Trump but tragically Ukraine needs to give up territory for that to happen.”

Last night, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky revealed he’s prepared to sign a peace deal – and suggested that would include pausing fighting and giving up land already occupied by Russia.

The brave war leader said the rest of Ukraine must join the Nato military alliance if he was to pause fighting on the frontlines.

But it’s unlikely Putin would allow such a deal to be struck.

“There’s no way of Ukraine being part of Nato,” Roberts said, claiming that’s part of the reason tyrant Putin invaded Ukraine in the first place.

The think tank boss pointed to how Putin views Nato’s expansion – and any inclusion of Ukraine in the military alliance – as an existential threat to Russia.

Roberts said Ukraine will “tragically” have to submit to Putin’s heavy demands and give up some territory – but he said that will allow Trump to end the war in days.

Roberts’ Washington-based think tank has close ties to the incoming Trump administration and is helping shape policy in the US.

Trump pledged on his victorious campaign trail that he would settle the Ukraine war “within 24 hours” of taking over the White House in January.

The Republican didn’t explain how he would end the war so quickly – but Roberts said it will likely mean Ukraine surrendering territory that Russia now occupies.

And within days of defeating blundering Joe Biden, the president-elect took a call from Putin and warned him not to escalate the war.

Insiders say a bullish Putin is open to discussing a peace deal with Trump – but along his own hardline terms.

On Thursday, the Russian dictator gushingly praised Trump as an “intelligent and experienced” politician capable of finding “solutions”.

Putin slammed Biden for creating “additional difficulties” for Trump’s presidency after America gave Kyiv permission to fire long-range ATACMS missiles and British Storm Shadow weapons into Russia.

Kyiv launched the ATACMS missiles against Putin’s territory on November 11 – and the UK’s Storm Shadow rockets just two days later.

In revenge, Putin unleashed his new chilling hypersonic missile “Oreshnik” at Ukrainians, with the rambling despot lauding the weapon as unbeatable.

The Oreshnik pierced through Ukraine’s defences and dropped cluster-bomb warheads on the city of Dnipro in an early morning blitz earlier this week.

And on top of that, 90 cruise missiles and kamikaze drones blitzed Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, plunging the country into darkness.

Amid the terrifying escalation, Roberts and those close to Trump are hopeful that the president-elect will end the carnage and bloodshed within days of stepping inside the White House.

Putin’s meatgrinder forces – despite their heaviest losses on Thursday with 2,000 killed – are still storming through Ukraine at an alarming rate.

Horrifying projections suggest the warmonger’s men have managed to gain just under 100 square miles in the past month.

They are capturing the size of two football pitches every minute, according to the US-based Institute of War.

In a rambling speech, Putin suggested that a “solution” could be found soon after Trump takes his position of power.

He said on Thursday: “As far as I can imagine, the newly elected president is an intelligent and already quite experienced person.

“I think he will find a solution.”

Trump has long criticised the billions that the Biden administration has spent in supporting Ukraine and there are fears he could pull out of Nato.

That would leave Europe flailing to pick up the slack without the US’s military might and assets worth $3.8trillion.

Roberts said Trump is tired of the likes of Germany and France wagging their fingers at the US to funnel more money into Europe’s defence as part of Nato.

He pointed to how nearly 20 countries including France, Germany, Italy and Spain fail to pay the required 2 per cent of their GDP on defence.

Between 2021 and 2024, the US has been in the top two contributors, paying just over 16 per cent.

It comes as the head of Britain’s MI6 warned – in a message in part aimed at Trump – that a Russian victory in Ukraine would threaten American and European security.

MI6 boss Richard Moore said Putin is conducting a “staggeringly reckless” sabotage campaign against Ukraine’s Western allies.

He explained: “We have recently uncovered a staggeringly reckless campaign of Russian sabotage in Europe, even as Putin and his acolytes resort to nuclear sabre-rattling to sow fear about the consequences of aiding Ukraine.

“Such activity and rhetoric is dangerous and beyond irresponsible.”