The Ukrainian president, Volodimir Zelenski, has launched this Saturday a round of contacts with its closest alliesamong them the British prime minister, Keir Starmer, and the French president, Emmanuel Macron, after it was confirmed that.
Zelenski has announced those contacts in X and has emphasized that Ukraine and his European allies “They are willing to strive in the most productive way possible by real peace “as he said after informing his conversation with Macron.
“It is truly important that Russians fail to deceive anyone once more. We all need a genuine end of the war and some reliable security foundations for Ukraine and other European nations, “he reiterated, referring to the guarantees that kyiv demands for a negotiated purpose of the conflict.
In informing a call with the Danish Prime Minister, Mette Frederiksen, Zelenski has indicated that both agree that So far there have been no changes in Russia’s behavioralthough this Friday expires Trump’s ultimatum to Moscow to take a step towards the end of the conflict.
“The Russians still refuse to stop the massacres, continue to invest in the war and continue to drive the idea of ‘exchange’ Ukrainian territory for Ukrainian territory, with consequences that only guarantee a more favorable position for Russia to resume war,” said the president.
This has alluded to Moscow’s refusal to access a high immediate fire and the possibility, hinted at by Trump, that, which in turn would entail territorial assignments by kyiv.
“All our steps should bring us closer to a real end of war, not to reconfiguration. And our joint decisions with our partners must be at the service of our common security,” he emphasized.
On the other hand, with Starmer, Zelenski has assured, the Ukrainian president shares “the same vision of the need for lasting peace for Ukraine and the danger of the Russian plan to reduce everything to a debate about the impossible.”
The Ukrainian leader has also communicated with the Estonian Prime Minister, Kristen Michal, continuing with a frantic round of contacts that led him to speak on Friday with the South African president, Cyril Ramaphosa; With the Czech Prime Minister, Petro Fiala; With President Latvian, Edgars Rinkevics; and with the Polish president, Donald Tusk.
Zelenski spoke Thursday with the German Friedrich Merz and with the Italian Giorgia Meloni, after it transcended after the meeting between Putin and the special envoy of Trump that Ukraine would not be present in the first encounter at the level of leaders since the war began in 2022.
