Zelensky alive but Europe is far from being able to replace US security guarantees

President Floodimir Zelensky was in a live mood when I met him in Paris with a panel of three other European journalists. He interrupted the meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron at the Ellis Palace and returned there for what he called “Tête à tête” after the interview.

Macron not just rolled out a red carpet for him. The Eiffel -Tower, behind Zelensky in the window with a picture when we talked in one of the great museums in Paris, was caught in yellow and blue, the color of the Ukrainian national flag.

The French wanted him to feel as if among friends. Zelensky arrived in Paris to meet with leaders and diplomats from 30 other countries that can do what they can do in the “Coalition of those who want”, the group Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron are trying to organize to offer Ukraine’s security guarantees.

Zelensky’s reception in Paris was a clear contrast with Dressing it up gave it US President Donald Trump And his vice -president JD Vance when he visited the White House last month.

Following their verbal attack, Zelensky was unceremoniously leaving the White House, and soon Trump ordered to stop US military assistance and exploration to Ukraine.

It was restored after Zelensky advised the British, French and other European allies, left their way to remedy their fences with Trump and its administration.

He passed the appearance of a flattering language that requires Trump and agreed to an American plan for an unconditional 30-day ceasefire. At first, he abandoned US security guarantees to support any ceasefire.

But, despite the fact that the US military and intelligence is flowing, the ruthless suspension of Trump, which costs Ukrainian life, left a deep sense of anxiety in Ukraine and among its European allies.

The data is that the United States of Trump is not a reliable ally. Make scripts in which it may not be an ally.

Most European leaders are still trying to act publicly as if an 80-year-old union with the United States is healthy. But the collection of 30 countries in Paris shows that he understands that the US can no longer rely on.

US presidents returning to Dwight D. Eisenhower at the end of the 1950s complained that Europeans are receiving a free trip from Europe’s blanket. Trump finally pulled him out.

During the interview, Zelensky praised the many plans that are formulated in Western Europe – headed by the UK, France and Germany – to spend more on defense.

He suggested that in three years, “if everything goes the way it is now”, Europe could even catch up with the United States.

At best, this is a very optimistic assessment, less accurate outlook and more gesture of gratitude to European allies, which, unlike Americans, accept very few conditions and lines to support Ukraine.

Europe, Zelensky said, “my discipline and no chaos.” This can be considered as a slant and unwanted comparison with the turns coming out of Trump’s White House.

I asked him about the conditions that Russian President Vladimir Putin tied to the last small step in Trump’s murmur, which is a sea ceasefire in the Black Sea.

After Ukraine and Russia held separate meetings with the Americans in Saudi Arabia, the Kremlin made a statement demanding concessions as Russia’s price for ceasefire.

The most significant requirement was the State Russian Bank, which was scheduled for SWIFT on international payments. This will open the door back to the main global commerce for Russia.

This decision does not depend on Trump because Swift is in Belgium.

A spokeswoman for the European Union said that one of the “major prerequisites” for raising or making changes to Russia was “the end of the Russian unjustified and unjustified aggression in Ukraine and the unconditional abolition of all Russian military forces from all over Ukraine.”

Even Trump reluctantly criticized Putin, suggested that Russia could “drag his legs” in negotiations with the US. This reminded him of his own business career.

He told the US Newsmax channel that “I have been doing it for years … I don’t want to sign a contract. I want to stay in the game.”

I asked Zelensky, where I was pushing for ceasefire, given Russia’s demands. He called for a decisive response of Americans.

“If America stands strong and not bend to the conditions of the Russians, we stand on our land.

“We protect this; we have shown our stability … And now it is very important that our partners are stable and strong, at least, at least as we are.”

I asked if he believed that the Americans would be, as he put it, he would remain strong.

“I hope so. I hope God bless. But we’ll see.”

Zelensky has no choice to declare his belief in America Trump, though he must have serious doubts.

Trump’s decision to punish Ukraine by turning off the military exploration on Russia’s missile launch, had a direct and deadly influence, and Zelensky had to work hard to make Trump yield. He doesn’t want it to happen again.

It was open to why he needed to try to stay near Trump, even when the US president seemed to be raised to restore relations with Moscow when he repeated Russian propaganda points, not least that Ukraine started the war.

“We needed to unlock assistance from the US. For us sharing intelligence is very important.”

This did not stop the Zelensk reproach of the comments made by Steve Witco, the super-substitute of Trump, the billionaire on real estate, turned into a diplomat, which is engaged in the Middle East, as well as from Russian-Ukraine.

In an interview last week with Tser Carlson, the right gift in the United States, Vitcoof is neglected in the UK and Macron France to create a “coalition of those who want to support Ukraine.

The American said it was a posture and a pose, a “simplified desire” sound like Winston Churchill. His words fit into what seems to be a settled opinion in the Trump administration that their previous allies in Europe are a parasitic load in the US.

What if Witkoff was right? Make insults and add that for decades have chosen the richest European countries to draw most of their considerable wealth on issues they consider more urgent than their militants.

Zelensky said Vitkoff and others in the Trump administration fell into Russian propaganda.

“I think Witkoff often quotes the Kremlin’s stories … I can’t be an ungrateful American for everything they did, but they often, unfortunately, under the influence of Russian stories. And we can’t agree with these stories.”

Zelensky suggested that Vitkoff was better at his old work, developing real estate in Manhattan.

“He is not like a military man. He is not like a general, and he has no such experience. As far as I know, he is very good on sale and buying real estate. And it’s a little different.”

President Zelensky for a man who lived with great pressure after a complete invasion of Russia more than three years ago was extremely alive, clearly pleased with the reception he had in Paris, and the efforts that President Macron and Prime Minister Starmer force European support and convince, even Kajol.

Zelensky seemed satisfied with its new strategy of the agreement to temporarily cease the fire to force Putin to show his unwillingness to stop the war.

I asked Zelensky how he deal with pressure. His goal, he said, was that his children could “walk down the street and do not need to hide.” And as he thought he was remembered; How did a person who saved Ukraine or tried and failed? Zelensky was slightly twisted. Better, he said than Putin, who was old and feared his own people.

“He will die soon. It is a fact. His rule may end before he finish his historically minor and unsuccessful life. That’s what he fears.”

Zelensky laughed.

“And I will do my best to protect Ukraine as much as I can. And I am definitely younger than Putin.”

Trump may rely on Easter. Zelensky still looks at the long move.