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US President Donald Trump welcomes Ukrainian President Valodimir Zelensky at the White House against the negotiations on the termination of the Russian war in Ukraine, Washington, Colombia District, August 18, 2025.
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In this regard, the conversations on Monday between US President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Wolf Zelensky and European leaders were good.
The US and Ukrainian leaders were drawn, looking joyfully and smiling – a long cry from an unusual shout and a public humiliation inflicted by Zelenskyy During the last trip to the White House In February.
Talks on Monday, which participated in the raft of European leaders, succeeded in stopping the protracted war between Russia and Ukraine, and Trump said the meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Zelensky would be organized with the next trilateral meeting he would join.
However the most significant result of development for Kyiv and Europe was Trump statement that security guarantees for Ukraine will be “provided” by European countries in “coordination with the United States”
Describing this as a “major step forward”, he later said that the safety guarantee for Ukraine is a very desirable leadership of Kiev and is considered as holding back Russian aggression – he would include a large purchase of American weapons in Europe’s financing. The agreement would be “official on paper over 10 days,” he said.
What are the safety guarantees?
As for the fact that they can include security guarantees, the details are still scanty. Trump commented at a press conference after the conversation that Europe will “take a lot of weight” for them, but said the United States would help and do it “very safe”.
In any case, security guarantees probably mean that Europe and the so -called “coalition of the willing” countries that offer to observe the peace deal is on the hook to do what they had previously promised.
French President Emmanuel Macron hinted on Tuesday that “the first security guarantee we are working on – and this is the most important thing is a strong Ukrainian army consisting of several hundred thousand people, well equipped, with defense systems and higher standards.”
“The second or second force of soothing, the British, the French, the Germans, the Turks and others who are ready to carry out these operations on the front line, not in a provocative manner, but operations on the air, to the sea, and on the ground. The target is a strategic signal: peace in Ukraine is also a concern,” he said, he said, he said. TF1-LCI, in the comments translated by NBC News.
Yaroslav Barbieri, a Chatham House researcher, told CNBC on Tuesday that the overall talks on Monday was one of “cautious optimisms”, but there are many unknown.
“However, it should be said that the Kremlin’s maximum demands on Ukraine have not changed, and therefore there are a number of uncertainty in the safety guarantee, details who will do what if there are any deployment of the squad where they will be located and how long, what countries will contribute?” she asked.
Obstacles to peace
European leaders expressed doubts about the lack of ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine before concluding peace treaties, but they seem ready to agree as long as the ultimate goal of peace and Ukraine and the security of Europe.
Gabryli Landsbergis, a former Foreign Minister of Lithuania, said CNBC on Tuesday that Europe is still fighting for what he had heard, saying that the block has not yet found its strength and the ability to create leverage. “
“What came out of the meeting yesterday was that Europe asked the United States to continue the help yesterday, to ask for a ceasefire to help any position of the troops, and then some of the leaders even said,” Well, some of the Ukrainian territories may be lost, but this is a reality. “
“It’s more like Europe agrees that” we are in a very weak position, and we must please the Trump’s president as much as we can, and we have nothing to put on the table, “he said.
Moreover, it is unclear whether the Kremlin will agree to the director’s talks with Zelenskyy. Presidential Assistant Putin Yuri Ushakov said on Monday that Trump and Putin was discussed “what should be studied the possibility of raising the level of representatives of Ukrainian and Russian parties, but no decision was made.
The proposed future summits between Trump, Putin and Zelensky would have kept the process against a possible conflict resolution, but it will still follow the Russian script scenario without repayment of fire, Holger Schmiding, the chief economist in Berenberg Bank, warned.
“Putin can already establish difficult conditions for meeting Zelensky. And at a meeting with Zelensky, the main purpose of Putin could be a complication of failing to fail for Zelensky, and disagree with the truce or final transaction. The result remains very uncertain,” he said.
