On the eve of his tête-à-tête in Alaska with Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump stressed Thursday that only a tripartite summit including Volodymyr Zelensky could seal a peace agreement in Ukraine, repeating that it would be necessary to “share” territories.
This meeting will open the way to another
assured the American president on Radio Fox News.
He had already said before that this anchorage summit only had the vocation of set the ground
with Russia.
kyiv and Europeans fear that in reality Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin do not undertake on Friday to redraw the map of Ukraine without the agreement of the Ukrainian president.
The second meeting will be very, very important, because it will be the one where they will conclude an agreement. And I don’t want to use the term “to share things”, but in a way, it’s not a bad term. There will be give-back with regard to borders, territories.
I don’t know where this second meeting will take place
he added. We think of three different places as well as of the possibility, because it would be by far the easiest, to stay in Alaska.
Vladimir Putin praised the fairly energetic and sincere efforts
United States To put an end to hostilities, get out of the crisis and reach agreements that satisfy all the parties involved
.
If, in one way or another, President Trump can convince Putin to stop the killing, we will want to believe it. We owe […] Hopefully something will get out of the meeting
told theAFP Zori Optasevych, a Ukrainian living in Anchorage, whose family had emigrated to the United States in the 1990s.
The American president estimated 25 %
The risk of failure of his Friday meeting with his Russian counterpart.
The head of American diplomacy, Marco Rubio, said that the question of security guarantees
should be addressed to end the conflict started in February 2022 by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the deadliest in Europe since the Second World War.
The Ukrainian president was not invited to what the Kremlin described as a tête-à-tête
Between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, two leaders that a very special relationship, alternating pushes of tension and spectacular rapprochements.
Volodymyr Zelensky’s visit follows his trip to Berlin for virtual meetings with European leaders and the American president on the strategy of talks that will take place in Alaska between Donald Trump and Russian president Vladimir Putin on Friday.
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Volodymyr Zelensky was warmly received on Thursday in London by British Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
European leaders are blocking around him and try to weigh on the unpredictable Donald Trump.
His conversation with Vladimir Putin on the basis of Elmendorf-Richardson will take place with performers, said the diplomatic advisor to the Kremlin, Iouri Ouchakov.
The agenda will mainly relate to the regulation of the Ukrainian crisis
added Mr. Ouchakov, also evoking Bilateral cooperation
.
The meeting must start on Friday around 11:30 am (local time), said the Kremlin.
The Russian and American presidents will then give a joint press conference, the first since their common appearance in front of the cameras in 2018 in Helsinki, remained in the memories for the good understanding then manifested by the two leaders.
On the ground, the pressure increases on the troops of kyiv, fewer.
They are faced with a rapid advance in the Russian army on the front in the eastern Donetsk region, where the Russian army claimed on Thursday taking two new villages.
Ukraine pulled dozens of drones in the night from Wednesday to Thursday, burning a refinery and making three injured near the Russian city of Volgograd, in the south of the country, according to local officials.
The official positions of the two belligerents are always irreconcilable.
Russia claims that Ukraine gives it four partially occupied regions (Donetsk, Lugansk, Zaporijia and Kherson), in addition to the Crimea annexed in 2014, and that it renounces Western Arms Deliveries and all membership of theTake.
For kyiv, these requirements are unacceptable.
During the three sessions of talks since the spring, the last of which was held in Istanbul in July, Russians and Ukrainians had only managed to agree on the exchange of prisoners of war.
In this context, kyiv and Moscow announced Thursday that they exchanged 84 prisoners from each camp.
