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European allies rallied Ukraine in a new support of support, insisting that any peace talks with Russia should include Kiev.
This happens when Donald Trump is preparing to negotiate with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Friday.
“The path to peace in Ukraine cannot be accepted without Ukraine,” the joint statement issued by the leaders of the UK, France, Italy, Germany, Poland, Finland and the European Commission said.
It is concerned that Ukraine will not be invited to its own peace talks, President Floodimir Zelensky stated that any Kyiv agreements would be “dead”.
At the end of the Saturday, the White House official said Trump would be ready to hold a tripartite meeting with Putin, and with Zelensky – but so far he remains only two, as the Russian leader is asking.
Earlier, Trump suggested that he could only start meeting Putin, telling reporters that he was planning to “start from Russia”. But the US president also said he believed that we were “shooting” the organization of a trilateral meeting with Putin and Zelensky.
Whether Putin would agree to this unclear-Russian and Ukrainian leaders did not meet face, as Putin launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine more than three years ago.
Speaking on Friday, Trump also suggested that he would “move the territories” that Moscow and Kiev reached an agreement – to which Zelensky reacted greatly.
“We will not reward Russia for what has done,” he said in Telegram. “Any decisions against us, any decisions without Ukraine, are also decisions against peace.”
“The Russians … still impose the idea of” exchange “of the Ukrainian territory in the Ukrainian territory, with consequences that do not guarantee no more convenient positions for the Russians to restore the war,” he added.
CBS, American BBC Media Media, said this The White House is trying to sway European allies to accept an agreement that includes Russia, which accepts the entire Donbass region in eastern Ukraine, and the preservation of the Crimean Peninsula.
Ukraine and European states, on the other hand, presented its own basis for ending the war of Trump and its top official, Reports The Wall Street Journal. Includes the requirements for any territory to exchange only mutually – so when Ukraine comes out of some regions, Russia must leave others.
European leaders, In their statement released late at Saturday eveningHe emphasized that “international borders should not vary by force.”
“Ukraine has freedom of choice over their own destiny,” they said, emphasizing that their peoples will continue to support Ukraine diplomatically, military and financially.
Leaders also stated that the “diplomatic decision” is crucial not only for the protection of Ukraine but also in Europe’s security.
It is not only Ukraine that fights for becoming a part of Alaska’s meeting.
European allies are also worried about the lack of influence on the results of any agreement to which Trump could reach Putin.
French President Emmanuel Macron expressed concern over Russia and the US on Saturday, except for European participation.
“Europeans will also be part of the decision, as their own security goes to the card,” he wrote.
Europe has adopted a tough approach to Moscow – including imposing sanctions against Russian entities and providing military assistance to Ukraine.
Zelensky stated that Macron said on Saturday that the main thing was to make sure that “the Russians had not deceived anyone again.”
“We all need a real end of the war and reliable security funds for Ukraine and other European countries,” the Ukrainian leader said.
Diplomacy in the US with Europe and Ukraine fell Vice President JD Vance On Saturday, when he visited the UK and held talks with Foreign Minister David Lami, as well as the two main assistants of Zelensky.
Thanks to Vens for the discussion, Andrei Yermak, the head of the Zelensky office, emphasized the need to include Ukraine.
“The reliable and lasting peace is only possible with Ukraine at the negotiating table,” he said. “The necessary ceasefire is necessary – but the frontline is not the border.”
The Alaska summit, the territory sold by Russia in 1867, will become the first between the presidents sitting and the Russian, after Joe Biden met with Putin in Geneva in June 2021.
Nine months later, Moscow sent troops to Ukraine.
In 2022, the Kremlin announced the annexation of four Ukrainian regions – Donetsk, Lugansk, Zaparetsia and Kherson – despite the fact that it has no complete control over them.
Moscow was unable to reach a decisive breakthrough in its full -scale invasion but occupies The large eastern territories of Ukraine. Meanwhile, the Ukrainian offensives could not push the Russian forces back.
