“What we need is Talk more, work more and prepare a plan to stop Putin and put an end to war. “The president of Ukraine has been shown this Friday, Volodimir Zelenskiafter their meeting with the vice president of the United States, JD Vancewhich has come to the Munich Security Conference (MSC) together with an American delegation.
Zelenski, who since Donald Trump announced on Wednesday that he had reached an agreement with Vladimir Putin to end the war in Ukraine has not ceased to repeat that there will be no agreement if the Ukrainian people are not taken into account, He has demanded that the American vice president “security guarantees” Before continuing talking about lasting peace.
Although the Ukrainian president has not hesitated to praise the figure of the US president. “I see that he is a strong man. And if you get on our side and do not put yourself in the middle, I think it will press and push Putin to stop the war. You can do it, “he said. Zelenski believes that Trump is the key to ending the conflict between Russia and Ukraine and said that the US president gave him his phone number. He has also reported that during the meeting, in which Trump’s special envoy for Ukraine, Keith Kellogg, Ukrainian and American teams has been present They have advanced in the details for your visit to kyiv “for future meetings and a deeper evaluation of the situation on the ground. “
For his part, the American vice president has stated that “the goal is, as President Trump outlined, end the war.” According to Vance, from the United States they want “that stop the killingbut that peace is resistant, durable, not the kind of peace that makes a conflict from here again a few years. “Trump’s number two He added that has maintained with its Ukrainian interlocutors “good conversations” On the subject, to which others will follow in the next “days, weeks and months”. Asked about an alleged lack of Ukrainian disposition to sit at the table with the Russian president, Vladimir PutinVance replied that “it is important to get together and start having the conversations that will be necessary to bring this to a conclusion.”
The first meeting and “not the last”
“That’s all I am going to say for now, because I want Preserve options for negotiators And for our respective teams in order to bring this to a responsible ending, “he added, without answering questions about a possible road map for peace talks.” We have had a good conversation today, our first meeting and not the last one, I am Sure, “Zelenski said.
Vance was accompanied by the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, and the special presidential envoy for the war in Ukraine, Keith Kellogg. The meeting has begun late After the US asked Ukraine more time to study kyiv’s response to the proposal of agreement presented on Wednesday by Washington, for which US companies would benefit from Ukraine’s natural resources in exchange for the continuity of the White House support to the country invaded by Russia.
On the other hand, the CNN has advanced that The Kremlin is already gathering a high -level negotiating team to establish direct conversations with the United States. Although its members have not yet been announced, the aforementioned medium ensures that it will include political, intelligence and high -level economic figures, including Kirill Dmitriev, the Russian official who played a key role behind the scene in a recent agreement for the release of prisoners in USA.
The voice of Europe
The meeting between Zelenski and Vance has occurred within the framework of the Munich Conference, where the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, has warned that A “failed” ukraine would weaken both EU and the US and stressed his willingness to work with Washington to achieve a “fair and lasting” peace. For his part, NATO general secretary, Mark Rutte, highlighted the consensus between the allied countries in which the agreement to achieve the end of the war must be “lasting.” Rutte also stressed that the US is consulting European countries in their efforts to open negotiations.
In Munich he also took the floor German Defense Minister Boris Pistoriuswhich has emphasized the need for negotiations to also include Ukraine and the EU and has asked not to rule out – as the US Secretary of Defense made kyiv’s entry into NATO.
For his part, the Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albareshe said on the margins at the Munich Security Conference that Do not consider “or as hypothesis” A solution for Ukraine in which the voice of Europeans is not taken into account. In one of his multiple interventions in the forum, Zelenski also asked to have Europe to elaborate the joint plan that the US must agree before President Trump celebrates any meeting with his Russian colleague.
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