Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told the Bloomberg Agency that he could have interviews with Russian President Vladimir Putin if the President of the United States Donald Trump will provide Ukraine of security guarantees.
The declaration was relaunched by Tass. The peace talks with Russia must be “equip”, and this “depends” not only “on the United States”, but also “on the European Union”: this morning on Telegram the Ukrainian president writes, commenting on the interview released Yesterday in Bloomberg.
“The end of the war should be a victory of Trump, not of Putin,” said the head of state to the Agency is the US print, adding that without strong and irreversible security guarantees of the United States and Europe, a ceased the fire could allow Russia to regain and renew its offensive.
“The only question is what security guarantees, and honestly I want to understand before the talks,” he added. “The negotiations can be equivalent or unjust. And here much depends on how we look at justice, in the same or different way – underlines Zelensky on his telegram account -. It depends on the United States of America, the new administration, the European Union, From their opinion, on their independence.
“The question is if Ukraine will be, as once in the Normandy format, alone and with all the others. Or (if) Ukraine will be with its allies and this time Russia will be alone. This is the meaning of Equi negotiations “, continues Zelensky, who concludes: in the interview with Bloomberg” I talked about the conditions for the interviews of peace and the importance of the support of partners to achieve a fair result in dialogue with Russia “.
Yesterday, the Ukrainian president also stressed that any Peacekeeping force in Ukraine must include the United States, explaining that Kiev’s European allies do not have enough soldiers to represent a realistic deterrent for Vladimir Putin. “It cannot be without the United States,” said Zelensky by pressing on Donald Trump and Xi Jinping to use their influence to help put war in Ukraine.
Trump’s ultimatum: ‘Immediately an agreement or I will impose sanction’
Yesterday, President Trump wrote on Truth that if there is no short agreement for Ukraine with Russia “I will not have other choice if it does not impose more taxes, duties and penalties about everything that is sold by Russia in the United States “.
“I don’t try to hurt Russia, I like the Russian people and I have always had a very good relationship with President Putin. We must not forget that Russia helped us during the Second World War,” added the Tycoon.
“Patteggia now and put an end to this ridiculous war,” added Trump again to turn to Putin. “If there is no agreement shortly, I will not have other choice if it does not impose new taxes, duties and penalties on all that sold by Russia and various other participating countries in the United States. Let’s end it with this war, which would never have started if I were State President.
For Moscow the threats of sanctions “are nothing new”
The Kremlin for his part, he sees nothing new in Donald Trump’s threats to impose new penalties and duties on Russia if he does not end the conflict in Ukraine. The spokesman Dmitry Peskov said this, stressing that already during his first term Trump “was the president who most often resorted to sanctioning methods”.
“He likes these methods, or at least they liked during his first presidency,” added Peskov, mentioned by the Interfax agency. Russia remains ready for “an equal and mutually respectful dialogue” with the USA, like the one that “took place during the first presidency of Trump”, underlined Peskov, specifying that “we wait for signs, which have not yet been received”.
The Cremlin spokesman has also declared that Moscow will never forget the help received by the USA in the Second World War and hopes that Trump “will share the joy of celebrating the 80/or anniversary of the victory” on Nazi -fascism with Russia, after yesterday The American president said the US must not “never forget” that Russia has “helped to win the Second World War”.