“One of the most important blockages is that Vladimir Putin said that he never was sitting with Zelensky, the Ukrainian leader, and President Trump managed to change this,” renges JD Vance.
( POOL / KIN CHEUNG )
The United States is working to “program” a meeting between Donald Trump and his Russian counterparts Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian Volodymyr Zelensky, US vice-president JD Vance said on Sunday 10 August. A statement that suggests that the Ukrainian president will not participate at the Trump-Putin summit on August 15, despite the European pressure.
“One of the most important blockages is that Vladimir Putin said that he never was busy with (Volodymyr) Zelensky, the Ukrainian leader, and the president (Trump) managed to change this,” said JD Vance during an interview with the conservative channel
Fox News
broadcast on Sunday. Now, he added, the American administration is working to “program (the moment when) these three leaders could sit and discuss the end of this conflict” in Ukraine.
The leaders of the European Union and the powers of the old continent still insisted that kyiv was involved in American-Russian negotiations, a few days before the summit scheduled for Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Friday.
Zelensky present on August 15?
And Volodymyr Zelensky, who will not in principle participate in this summit, urged its European allies, notably France, Germany and the United Kingdom also excluded from talks, to define a common approach.
An “extraordinary meeting” in videoconferencing is also scheduled for Monday
Between foreign ministers from EU countries and their Ukrainian counterpart.
The United States Ambassador to NATO, Matthew Whitaker, suggested on Sunday that the Ukrainian president could attend the summit.
“Yes, I undoubtedly think that it is possible”
replied the American diplomat to the Atlantic Alliance, which was questioned by television
CNN
On a possible presence of the Ukrainian head of state in Alaska.
“There is certainly no agreement if all the parties involved have not subscribed to it. And, obviously, the absolute priority is to reach the end of the war,” argued Matthew Whitaker.
But in the end, it will be for Donald Trump to decide, warned his ambassador to NATO. “If he believes that inviting Zelensky is the best scenario, then he will do it,” he said. But “no decision has been made,” said the former federal prosecutor.