Zelensky, today in Brussels and then tomorrow expected in the White House together with the European leaders, said he was grateful to Donald Trump and the United States for having accepted to collaborate with Europe on the security guarantees for Kiev, but he pointed out that at the mountains “there are no details on how they will work”. “Like Article 5 of NATO, we consider adhesion to the EU as part of the security guarantees,” said Zelensky talking at a press conference with the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen. The Russian leader Vladimir Putin exposed his requests for “exchanges of territories” with Ukraine during the summit of almost three hours with the President of the United States Donald Trump on Friday, in Alaska.
According to rumors, Moscow asks for Ukraine to give up the Donbass region (Lugansk and Donetsk already partially occupied) and in return it would be willing to freeze the conflict along the current lines of the front in the rest of Ukraine, in the regions of Kherson and Zaporizhzia, and formally promise not to attack Ukraine or other European nations anymore. Putin, however, did not pulled back by the conditions that places as necessary to eliminate what Russia defines the “profound causes” of the war: the reduction of the size of the Kiev army, a change of the current political system, the abandonment of its aspirations to enter NATO and the EU and the commitment to neutrality.
Von der leyen: “Ukraine must be a steel porcupine”
“There must be no limits to the Ukrainian armed forces, nor limitations to cooperation with third countries or to receive assistance from third countries. Ukraine must be a steel porcupine. The security guarantees must be both for the interests of Ukraine and Europe”. So the president of the EU Commission Ursula von der Leyen in a press point with Zelensky in Brussels.