The European allies of Ukraine have once again underlined their support for Ukraine and have insisted that the road to peace and the end of the Russian invasion cannot be decided without kyiv’s participation, after the president of the United States, Donald Trump, announced on Friday that and argued that the Ukraine will have to give territory. The president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, and the main European powers have claimed in a joint voice statement for Ukraine at the meeting in Alaska. “The path to peace in Ukraine cannot be decided without Ukraine. We remain committed to the principle that they should not be modified by force. The current contact line must be the starting point of the negotiations,” says the statement, signed by the commission and the leaders of France, the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, Poland and Finland.
The signatories share “the conviction that a diplomatic solution must protect the vital interests of security of Ukraine and Europe.” And “these vital interests include the need for solid and credible security guarantees that allow Ukraine to effectively defend their sovereignty and territorial integrity. Ukraine has freedom to choose their own destiny. Only significant negotiations can be celebrated in the context of a high fire or a one,” they underline.
Given the idea that kyiv had to give territory to achieve a peace, they emphasize that “international borders should not be modified by force.” From the support of diplomatic efforts, kyiv’s allies reiterate that they will maintain the “substantial military and financial support to Ukraine, particularly through the work of the coalition of volunteers, and maintaining and imposing restrictive measures against the Russian Federation”.
“We are still firmly next to Ukraine. We are united as Europeans and determined to jointly promote our interests,” says the statement, which arrives after on Saturday numerous leaders already expressed their support for Zelenski and high fire and a process to end the war.
Zelenski stressed this Sunday that kyiv “values and supports the joint declaration. “The end of the war must be fair, and I am grateful to all those who today support Ukraine and our people for the good of Ukrainian peace, which defends the vital of our European nations,” he said through his profile on the social network X.
The White House has affirmed that Trump is open to a Zelenski participation, but at the moment he foresees a bilateral meeting, as Putin asked.
