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.
Volodymyr Zelensky, who has so far rejected any territorial concession, saying having their hands bound by the Ukrainian Constitution, will be received Monday afternoon by Donald Trump in the White House oval office.
Russia complicates the situation
Saying himself “grateful to the invitation”, the Ukrainian president warned on Saturday evening that the refusal of a cease-fire by Moscow “Complicated (Ait) the situation”. “We see that Russia rejects many calls to the ceasefire and has not yet determined when it stops killing. This complicates the situation. If it does not have the will to execute a simple order to stop its strikes, it might need important efforts to encourage Russia to want to apply something much more important: a peaceful coexistence with its neighbors for decades, “wrote the Ukrainian president on his social networks on the night of Saturday to Sunday.
Upstream of his trip to Washington, French President Emmanuel Macron, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and the German Chancellor Friedrich Merz will bring this Sunday at 3 pm in videoconference 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.
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”.
