Ukraine’s Zelenskyy to meet with EU, NATO leaders after talks with us on the revised peace process
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is set to meet the leaders of Britain, France and Germany in London on Monday, a relationship that is gaining support as the United States steps up pressure on a proposed peace deal with Russia.
French President Emmanuel Macror and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, who went to London hosted by Prime Minister Keelenskyy, expressed their support for Zelenskyy, they have allowed to promote that the US KYIV accepts terms favorable to Russia.
“We are starting a new political week now – there will be consultations with European leaders,” Zelenskyyy told Ukrainians in a video address on Sunday evening, recorded as he was traveling on a train.
The US envoy says that territorial claims remain a sticking point in the Peace Deal between Russia and Ukraine. The US-led meetings are over; Meanwhile, Russia launched a major strike in Central Ukraine earlier Sunday.
“First and foremost, security, support for our resilience and support packages for our defense. Finally, we will discuss the long term for Ukraine.”
Zelenskyy admitted in a separate social media post that the prospect of peace “depends entirely on Russia.” He will leave London for Brussels, where he will meet later with talks hosted by Nato chief Mark Rutte, as well as European Union leaders Antonio Costa and Ursula von der Leyen.
Days of US lectures and discussions
Ukraine is facing its worst crisis in the four-year war. Russian forces are slowly grinding away in the east, and Ukrainian cities and towns were plunged into darkness for hours due to heavy Russian strikes on the power grid and other infrastructure.
Washington proposed a final plan that was rejected last month in favor of many of Russia’s military needs. Kyiv’s European allies are backed by Ukraine in seeking to improve policies.
US President Donald Trump Steve Witkoff and Jared Jared Kushner brought the revised plan to Moscow last week, and then had several days of talks with Ukrainian officials in Miami, which ended on Saturday.
Zelenskyy called constructive dialogue but it is not easy.
US officials said they are in the final stages of reaching an agreement. But so far there has been little sign that Ukraine or Russia are willing to sign on to the draft of the withdrawals from Trump’s negotiating team.
Trump said on Sunday, before hosting an honor at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, that he was “disappointed” that the latest US-proposed confrontation would not be clear that the United States would not support any kind of confrontation.
Ukraine deserves respectable peace, and that there will be peace depends entirely on Russia – on our combined pressure on Russia and on the sound negotiating positions of the United States, in Europe. Russia must be answered accordingly for that… pic.twitter.com/c9pyhxuqw5
After Trump made his remarkable political comeback last year, which included promises in the campaign field to quickly end the Russia-Ukraine War, his approach to Ukraine and Zelenskyy from Ukraine and Zelenskyy from Concatiatiat. He accused Kyav’s leaders last month of showing “zero gratitude” for our efforts to end the war and at times it seemed as if they should blame Ukraine for the attack on February 2022.
During his first term as President, Trump was impeached in 2019 in the House of Representatives after it was revealed that he tried to solicit Zelenskyy, then in his first weeks as Ukrainian, in a plan to harm a Ukrainian political rival. Trump was later impeached by the US Senate.
Trump criticized Putin over the Russian military killing of Ukrainian civilians.
Security Strategy is making waves
Trump’s criticism of Zelenskyy came as Russia on Sunday adopted the National Security Strategy of Russia, the first time that his views on Russia have been given, the first time that Moscow has been so praised by the Cold War document.
Since Russia’s 2014’s annexation of Crimea from Ukraine and its 2022 invasion of its neighbors, US strategies have singled out Moscow as an aggressor or threat that was trying to reverse the cold war order by force.
The National Security Strategy is the latest in a series of statements by US officials that have raised the specter of war after a close relationship with its most powerful ally, the United States.
European politicians and officials are closed to the tone of Washington but as they rush to build their neglected structures to meet the perceived threat from Russia, they still rely heavily on US military support.
Trump encouraged Ukraine’s Allies to buy weapons from the manufacturers of ARM ArMS, but they have stopped supplying Billions in military aid and humanitarian aid have been given to Ukraine by previous democratic administrations led by Joe Biden.
Investments are being made across Europe to shore up its defense capabilities in the face of Russia’s increased aggression and a defensive standoff with the United States. Andrew Chang examines the steps Europe is taking to prevent a possible Russian attack. Photos provided by The Canadian Press, Reuters and Getty Images
The strategy, signed by Trump, also warned that Europe is facing a civilizational error. “
“In the long term, it is more than likely that within a few decades, some members of NATO will have a non-European majority,” the document said. “Therefore, it is an open question whether they will look at their place in the world, or their alliance with the United States, in the same way as those who signed the NATO Charter.”
Some European analysts said the document revealed that it was talking about the points of European political parties, which have grown to be the main opposition to the governments of Germany, France and others that sell US cables.
