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European leaders alongside zelensky monday:
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All in Washington: After the Trump-Putin summit in Alaska which did not lead to any announcement. In addition, European leaders are blocking around the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, which they will accompany on Monday in the White House. However, – European leaders alongside zelensky monday
(Keystone-ATS) This decision was announced on Sunday shortly before a videoconferencing of the “volunteer coalition”, which brings together kyiv’s supporters, aimed at examining what could be the contours of a possible peace agreement between Ukraine and Russia.
The Washington european leaders alongside zelensky monday meeting will be a first since the start of the Russian invasion in February 2022. Therefore, The French president. Nevertheless, Emmanuel Macron, the German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, the Italian Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, the British Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, the Finnish President, Alexander Stubb, and the NATO chief, Mark Rutte, confirmed their presence.
“I am very happy to be able to accompany you tomorrow. For example, ” said during a press briefing in Brussels with Volodymyr Zelensky the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, who will also be present in the American federal capital.
The Ukrainian leader, who was delighted with this European “unity”, stressed that he did not know “exactly” what MM. Meanwhile, Putin and Trump had spoken in Alaska.
“What President Trump told us about security guarantees is much more important. Moreover, for me, than Putin’s reflections,” he added just before the start of a videoconferencing meeting of european leaders alongside zelensky monday the Kiev allied “volunteer coalition”, which brings together most of the major European countries, EU, NATO, and non-European countries like Canada.
The question of security guarantees should occupy a central place in this meeting. “We salute the will of President Trump to provide security guarantees to Ukraine. similar to article 5,” said Ursula von der Leyen.
No ceasefire in sight – European leaders alongside zelensky monday
These diplomatic initiatives intervene after a summit in anchorage (northwest of the United States) between the American president. Donald Trump, and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, having led, like a time hoped by the American Republican, on a cease-fire agreement.
President Zelensky. his European allies were in favor of a preliminary cease-fire, but Donald Trump said preferred a global agreement, while remaining very elusive on his content.
Returning from Alaska. he spoke of a security guarantee for kyiv similar to that of article 5 of NATO, apart from the framework of the Atlantic Alliance, european leaders alongside zelensky monday considered by Moscow as an existential threat at its borders.
According to the Italian Prime Minister. Giorgia Meloni, it is a question of 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”.
The American president also supports a proposal from Russia strengthening his presence in eastern Ukraine. an official in charge of telephone exchanges between Donald Trump and European leaders told AFP.
Territorial concessions
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 (South).
A few months after launching its invasion of Ukraine. Russia had proclaimed in September 2022 the annexation of these four european leaders alongside zelensky monday Ukrainian regions, even if its troops still control none in full.
Mr. Zelensky has so far rejected any territorial concession, saying he had his hands bound by the Ukrainian Constitution.
On Saturday. he said he was “grateful to the invitation” to the White House, while warning that the refusal of a ceasefire by Moscow “Complicated (Ait) the situation”.
Tipartite summit?
Donald Trump also suggested a tripartite summit with MM. Putin. 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, a television scene that had amazed the world.
Such a meeting must take place “as quickly as possible,” insisted Ursula von der Leyen on Sunday.
But the Ukrainian president expressed his pessimism: “At this stage. there is no indication from Russia that the tripartite summit will take place”.
After three. a half years of the bloodiest conflict in Europe since the european leaders alongside zelensky monday Second World War, the Russian army occupied approximately 20% of the Ukrainian territory, in particular almost all of the Lougansk region and a large part of the Donetsk region, where its progression has recently accelerated.
This is not the case with the regions of Zaporijjia. Kherson, whose main urban centers are still under Ukrainian control.
On the ground, hostilities continue. kyiv and Moscow mutually attacked drones in the night from Saturday to Sunday, killing several people.
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