President Donald Trump has announced that on Friday, Russian and Ukrainian officials will meet at a security conference in Munich for talks on how to end the war in Ukraine.
“Russia will be near our people,” the US president said. “By the way, Ukraine is also invited to who will be there from any country – but to people from Russia, Ukraine and the USA.”
However, Russia, which does not officially visit the annual forum in Germany, does not comment, and the senior Ukrainian official stated that “negotiations with Russians in Munich” did not expect “.
This week, allies in America still react to Trump’s surprise that he and Russian President Vladimir Putin have agreed on a phone call to start negotiations to end the war.
President of Ukrainian Valodimir Zelensky should meet with Vice President Trump J. D. Vens in Munich.
Zelensky is expected to meet with US Secretary of State, Mark Rubio.
Rubio’s plane was to return to the American air base in Merilend late Thursday after it survived the “mechanical problem” on the way to the German city. He then had to take another plane.
The US president has announced a three-way meeting in Munich during a Thursday press conference without giving further information.
However, the Zelensky DMYTRO Lytvyn adviser told reporters that the Ukrainian delegation does not plan to attend such a meeting.
Russia did not immediately respond to the BBC request for a comment on this question.
Trump’s announcement happened a day after he first held separate phone calls with Putin, then with Zelensky.
Describing the negotiations as “great”, Trump said there was “a good opportunity to stop this horrible, very bloody war.”
But he said that Kyiv did not “virtually” join the NATO military alliance, as well as “unlikely” that Ukraine could return to its previous borders in 2014.
Zelensky – who confessed that “not very pleasant” that Trump talked to Putin before him – warned that Ukraine did not agree with any peaceful deal proposed by the United States and Russia without the participation of Kiev.
“We cannot accept it as an independent country,” he said, emphasizing that his priority was “security guarantees”, which he did not see without the US support.
Zelensky stated that the European allies “should be at the negotiating table”, against the background of growing fears throughout the continent that Trump’s verteur could lead to a separate US transaction in Russia for the future of Ukraine and Europe.
French President Emmanuel Macron told Financial Times that only Zelensky could negotiate on behalf of his country with Russia, warning “peace that is surrender” will be “bad news for all.”
EU foreign policy head Kaj Kalas said, “Any quick correction is a dirty business.”
In Munich, Zelensky’s goals at her meeting with Vens seem clear: to encourage the US to continue standing in Ukraine and keep in mind the best interests of the nation when it tries to agree on the end of the war.
What Americans want from this meeting is more uncertain. Vens may try to assure Zelensky that the Ukrainians will participate in the upcoming peace talks, even if it seems that they will be a younger partner.
In fact, Vens can convey a dull message – what Defense Minister Pitt Hugset said publicly on Monday, even if he later went back. The US does not provide NATO, which includes Ukraine. And to end the war, Ukraine will have to abandon the territory under Russian control
It can be a bitter pill for Zelensky to swallow, but such additional US military assistance to Ukraine that in the end will need to continue fighting at this point.
Neither Trump nor Trump’s Republican Party in Congress is not interested in supporting support.
Almost three years have passed since Russia has started a complete invasion.
After the overthrow of the pro -Russian President of Ukraine in 2014, Moscow annexed the Black Sea Peninsula and supported pro -Russian separatists in bloody battles in eastern Ukraine.
The conflict invaded the universal war when Russia invaded Ukraine almost three years ago.
Moscow’s attempts to take control of the capital of Kiev were thwarted, but the Russian forces took a fifth of Ukraine in the east and south, and carried out air strikes across the country.
Ukraine avenged artillery and unmanned blows, as well as to land in the Russian western region of Kursk.
Exact calculations of losses are difficult to come from the secrecy of both Russian and Ukrainian governments, but it is estimated that hundreds of thousands of people, most of whom were killed either injured and millions of civilians have escaped as refugees.
