US President announced a meeting in Munich. Ukraine wants involvement of all its allies
The Ukrainian presidency assured that he has no plans to attend a meeting scheduled for Friday in Munich with Russian and American responsible, a meeting announced Thursday by US President Donald Trump.
Ukraine reacted: “A common position awake [com os aliados de Kiev] It must be on the table for a conversation with the Russians. At this moment, there is nothing on the table. Conversations with the Russians are not planned, “said Dmytro Lytvyn, advisor to President Volodymyr Zelensky, in statements to journalists, cited by the agencies. Ukraine considers Europe to be involved in the negotiations.
Donald Trump had announced before a meeting was held between “high employees from Russia, Ukraine and D disc and United States” this Friday in Munich, Germany, at the beginning of the security conference, which runs until Sunday. “Russia will be there with people from our country. Ukraine is also invited. I don’t know exactly who will represent each country, but will be high employees from Russia, Ukraine and the United States,” said the US head of state in statements to journalists in the oval room.
The White House, contacted by AFP, was no use more details.
Also this Thursday, Donald Trump had guaranteed that Ukraine will be part of the negotiations to end the war with Russia, stressing that Russian President Vladimir Putin, “wants peace.” “I think he would tell me if he didn’t want her,” Trump told the White House, a day after a long telephone conversation with Russian leader.
Already the Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky, appeals to be suspicious of the intentions of the Russian counterpart. In a message published on social network X, reporting a telephone conversation with Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, Zelensky said he had “warned international leaders not to trust Putin’s statements that he is ready to end the war.”
I spoke with Polish Prime Minister . We discussed the conditions needed for a lasting and real peace in Ukraine and agreed that no negotiations with Putin can begin without a united position from Ukraine, Europe, and the U.S.
I informed the Prime Minister about my…
– Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Volodymyr Zelenskyy (@zelenskyyua)
Also on social network X, Tusk indicated that he had kept telephone conversations with European leaders, including Ukrainian President and German Chancellor, Olaf Scholz, to argue that Ukraine, the European Union (EU) and the United States must be “totally totally united as they strive for peace negotiations ”with Russia.
In turn, Scholz warned of the risk of negotiations leading to a Russian victory and a “disintegration” of Ukraine, at a time when the idea of a sealed agreement between Washington and Moscow at Kiev expected.
