According to the German magazine Der Spiegel, French President Emmanuel Macron warned Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and other European leaders that The United States can betray Ukraine and insist that it hand over parts of its territory to Russia even without security guarantees. Der Spiegel has a transcript of a confidential phone call between Macron, Zelensky, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and other European leaders that took place on Monday.
TASR writes about it according to a Thursday report by Reuters and The Guardian. “There is a chance that the US will betray Ukraine on the issue of territory without clear security guarantees,” Macron said, according to the magazine. In Monday’s phone call, Merz warned Zelensky that American negotiators were “playing games” and that he should be “very careful” in the coming days. Merz was referring to the envoys of the US president, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, who held talks with the head of the Kremlin, Vladimir Putin, in Moscow on Tuesday.
Your concerns during the phone call Finnish President Alexander Stubb and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte also expressed. Stubb said that “we can’t leave Ukraine and Volodymyr alone with these guys.” Rutte emphasized that “we must protect Volodymyr“.
“The president did not make such a statement,” Der Spiegel quoted the Elysee Palace as saying. “I don’t want to comment on the alleged information leaks. There can be no doubt about our support for Ukraine and the intensity of our negotiations with the American side,” said French Foreign Ministry spokesman Pascal Confavreux.
In October, Washington presented a 28-point plan for Ukraine, which was developed without the participation of Kiev’s European allies and contained the maximalist demands of Moscow. A wave of diplomatic negotiations followed, during which American and Ukrainian negotiators held talks in Geneva and Florida. The result was an updated peace plan that Witkoff and Kushner discussed in Moscow on Tuesday.
