The allies of Ukraine consult each other on Sunday, during a videoconference of the “coalition of volunteers”, concerning the peace agreement without the prior cease-fire wanted by Donald Trump after his meeting with Vladimir Putin.
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The Alaska summit, which was supposed to be crucial for Ukraine and Europe, offered the Russian president a spectacular return to the international scene without leaving or on a break in hostilities, even less on new sanctions targeting Russia.
The American president even supports a proposal from Russia strengthening his presence in eastern Ukraine, a responsible for telephone exchanges between Donald Trump and European leaders told AFP.
According to this anonymous source, the Russian president “asks in fact that Ukraine leaves the Donbass” and therefore completely yields this territory bringing together the regions of Donetsk and Lougansk in eastern Ukraine. He also offers a fronted gel in the regions of Kherson and Zaporijjia.
A few months after launching its invasion of Ukraine, Russia had proclaimed in September 2022 the annexation of these four Ukrainian regions, even if its troops still control none in full.
Volodymyr Zelensky, who has so far rejected any territorial concession, saying he had hands bound by the Ukrainian Constitution, will be received on Monday afternoon by Donald Trump in the Oval Maison Blanche office.
Saying “grateful to the invitation”, the Ukrainian president warned on Saturday evening that the refusal of a ceasefire by Moscow “Complicé[ait] the situation ”.
Safety guarantee
Upstream of his trip to Washington, French President Emmanuel Macron, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and the German Chancellor Friedrich Merz will bring together on Sunday at 1 pm in videoconferencing the “volunteer coalition” allies of kyiv, which brings together most of the major European countries, the EU, NATO, and non -European countries like Canada.
Participants should approach, according to diplomats, the question of security guarantees which are granted to kyiv within the framework of a possible peace agreement.
Donald Trump mentioned in the benefit of kyiv a security of security similar to that of article 5 of NATO, apart from the framework of the Atlantic Alliance, considered by Moscow as an existential threat which extends at its borders.
According to the Italian Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, it would be to start defining “a collective security clause which would allow Ukraine to obtain the support of all its partners, including the United States, ready to act in the event that it is again attacked”.
Tipartite summit?
After three and a half years of the bloodiest conflict in Europe since the Second World War, the Russian army occupied approximately 20% of the Ukrainian territory, including almost all of the Lougansk region, and a large part of the Donetsk region, where its progression has accelerated recently.
This is not the case with the regions of Zaporijjia and Kherson, whose main urban centers are still under Ukrainian control.
The abandonment by Donald Trump of the scenario of a truce seems to promote Vladimir Putin who wants to directly negotiate a global and final agreement. kyiv and its European allies denounce on the contrary a way of saving time in order to continue its offensive and expand its territorial conquests.
It is however “the best way to end the horrible war between Russia and Ukraine,” said the American billionaire on his social social network.
“A simple ceasefire agreement […] Often does not hold, “insisted Donald Trump, who had nevertheless threatened Moscow with” very serious consequences “if hostilities did not cease.
He let consider a tripartite summit with MM. Putin and Zelensky if “everything works well” when he received the Ukrainian president, six months after humiliating him with his vice-president JD Vance in the oval office, an incredible scene live on television that had dismayed many European allies.
