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Gets the imageUkraine will not accept any peaceful transaction, coordinated by the United States and Russia, without its participation, the president of the Loladimir Zelensky said after Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin pledged to start negotiations on the war.
Trump said there was a “good opportunity” on Wednesday on Wednesday after he and the Russian president held a “long” phone call.
The US president also said he did not believe that Ukraine “practically” join NATO, and it was “unlikely” that it could return to its borders by 2014.
Zelensky said his country would not be expelled from the negotiations. The Kremlin said Ukraine “will take part in the negotiations anyway.
Separately, Trump announced a meeting of “high -level people” from the US, Ukraine and Russia at the Munich Security Forum on Friday.
He said it was not “sure who would be there from any country.”
Russia, which is not involved in the annual forum, has not publicly commented on Trump’s claims.
Meanwhile, Zelensky DMYTRO Lytvyn’s adviser told reporters that “there are no conversations with Russian in Munich.”
Speaking to journalists on Thursday, Zelensky, who also called Trump on Wednesday, said: “We cannot accept it as an independent country, any agreements (concluded) without us.”
He said that “Europeans also need to be at the negotiating table,” and that he told Trump that his priority was “security guarantees”, which he did not see without the US support.
In the next message on X, discussing the call with Prime Minister Donald Tusk, he said that negotiations could not start without a united position from Ukraine, Europe and the USA and Ukraine.
“I stressed that Ukraine should negotiate from the position of force, with strong and reliable security guarantees, and that NATO membership will be most economically for partners,” he said.
“I also warned the world leaders from Putin’s proxies to stop the war.”
The European allies of Ukraine also rejected any step towards forced settlement in Kiev.
UK Defense Minister John Hill said “there could be no negotiations about Ukraine without Ukraine, and Ukraine’s voice should be at the heart of any negotiations.”
German Chancellor Olaf Scholtz dismissed the “dictated peace”, and his defense minister called it “regret” Washington, which has already made “concessions” to the Kremlin.
In his address to NATO journalists in Brussels, EU foreign policy chief Kaj Kalas accused Washington of “coincidence” to Russia.
“We don’t have to remove anything from the table before the negotiations even started because they play in the Russian court, and that’s what they want,” she said.
EpaTrump, which made the first publicly recognized White House call with Putin from the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, said he would meet with Putin in Saudi Arabia.
Speaking to the journalists on Wednesday in the Oval Office, he said that Putin “wants this (war) to end,” and he is waiting for ceasefire soon.
Asked if Ukraine was an equal member of the peace process, he added that “they should conclude peace.”
Meanwhile, his Defense Minister Pitt Hugset told a press conference at the NATO summit on Thursday that peace talks will “be held with” Putin and Zelensky “and called Trump a” perfect deal “.
HEGSET, who said on Wednesday that it was unrealistic to expect Ukraine to return to the border by 2014 and humiliated the prospect of Ukraine to join NATO, it turned out to return to his comments, saying that “everything was on the table” and , and the conversations were headed by the president.
The Defense Minister also offered financial assistance to Ukraine during the negotiations may be on the table, as well as numbers of US units in Europe.
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.
