What each side wants from Ukraine, talking in a white house

Later in the White House, he promises to be unlike any other when the world leaders make a rare collective visit to Ukraine negotiations.

What was exhibited as a meeting between the two presidents, Donald Trump and Valadomir Zelensky, became a more summit.

Leaders from the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Finland, the EU and NATO have moved throughout the Atlantic to say how a three -year war should end with Russia and on what terms.

This is a reflection on how high rates are, and the strengthening of European concerns that the US has moved its position to one less favorable Ukraine.

We break down what each of the present – and the one who is not – thinks that wins when the sun goes on a long negotiation.

Trump’s promise was that he resolved this conflict on his first day, but six months later the breakthrough he wants is still shying away from him.

The terms of any agreement seemed less important to Trump than the deal itself, so the conditions changed over time.

After meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Friday, Trump appears to have thrown his criticism in Moscow and the threat of sanctions, and decided to put pressure on Zelensky.

In the Sunday Sunday, he warned that the Ukrainian president should abandon NATO membership, and he would have to give way to Crimea, which Putin had illegally joined in 2014.

Trump’s messenger Steve Witcoof said on Sunday that Washington will provide security guarantees to Europe to contain further Russian aggression. But the details remain unclear.

So far, the United States has resisted European demands that they take on the future security of Ukraine. Later, all eyes will be in the White House to find out if it has changed.

Zelensky finds himself in an unenviable position, which should stand on its land in the face of an increasingly impatient Donald Trump, which seems to be shaken by Putin and who has already accused Zelensky of standing in peace.

Trump will probably say Zelensky that he should agree to give up the ground. It will be unusually difficult for the Ukrainian president, as it will retreat from Donetsk and Luhansk, the regions that thousands of Ukrainian soldiers have fought and died to protect since 2022.

It would also allow Russia to control the huge territories, which it could later be used as a bust for further aggression.

Thus, Zelensky cannot agree to attract concessions without strong safety guarantees that will start again when Russia attacks again. Those who could provide NATO but Trump made it clear that Ukraine would not join the alliance.

Details of any alternative guarantees are probably not yet developed, but without them Zelensky will be difficult to make obligations.

Ukraine is also concerned that Trump seems to have moved from the desire to stop the fire to push the full peace deal. This can take solely a lot of time, which at the same time allows for further Russian attacks, civil death and loss of the frontline.

European leaders will try to push Trump to the end of what the US security guarantees may look like for Ukraine.

The uncertainty of US statements on this issue is anxious for Europeans who feel protection against potential future attacks by Russia, will have to come from a reliable American commitment.

There is also nervousness around the idea that the US can insist on Ukraine in Ukraine. The European continent has a long history of bloody wars, and leaders want to avoid the scenario in which the borders of the sovereign country are redesigned by force.

These serious problems explain an unprecedented solution for such a great contingent leaders to visit the White House at the last moment.

Last week, a virtual US-EU meeting on the eve of the Alaska summit seemed to have the effect of Certining Trump’s criticism to Russia; Now that he seems to be on Moscow’s side, European leaders will try to impress him that their problems about the continent’s long -term security have not changed.

There will be no Russian representative in the White House today. This may not matter: Putin seems to have enough impression on Trump last week that Moscow may be sure that her view will be properly presented.

Trump has already stated that Ukraine would not join NATO – and Russia wants this commitment to be repeated and ratified. He also wants complete control over Donbas, which will entail Kiev, abandoning the land she still holds in the regions of Donetsk and Lugansk.

Perhaps the most important thing in Moscow has succeeded in Trump’s idea that Zelensky is now making a deal to end the war – while knowing well that he could not agree to give up the territory. A victory for Russia can become a third to lead to the fact that Trump has left the negotiating table and leave Ukraine and Europeans to self -self -assign.