The Ukrainian resident Volodymyr Zelensky denounces Russia’s refusal to a ceased, which according to him “complicates the situation” in achieving the peace plan wanted by Donald Trump after yesterday’s meeting with Putin.
“We see that Russia is rejecting the numerous appeals to the ceasefire and has not yet decided when it will stop killing – its words on social networks -. This complicates the situation. If it is not willing to perform a simple order to cease hostilities, important efforts may be necessary to push Russia to want to implement something much more important: peaceful coexistence with its neighbors for decades”.
Von der Leyen, Macron, Meloni, Merz and Stubbo tomorrow from Trump with Zelensky
“This afternoon I will welcome Volodymyr Zelensky in Brussels. Together we will participate in the coalition of the willing.” This was stated by the president of the EU Commission Ursula von der Leyen on X. The meeting is scheduled for videoconference today at 3 pm on the eve of the Ukrainian president’s journey to the White House to discuss with Donald Trump of the results of the meeting in Alaska with Vladimir Putin. “At the request of President Zelensky – adds Von der Leyen – tomorrow I will participate in the meeting with President Trump”. The Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, the French president Macron, the German chancellor Friedrich Merz and the Finnish president Alexander Stubb.
Trump and Zelensky will talk directly about the plan tomorrow at the White House. Although contrary to the sale of territories, the Ukrainian leader will fly to Washington willing to treat. Zelensky – according to rumors – would oppose Putin’s request to yield the Donetsk and Lugansk in exchange for a freezing of the fighting line in the south regions of Kherson and Zaporizhzia. But in the White House, the Ukrainian president is ready to enchant a dialogue on the territories, a theme that is willing to treat even in a trilateral comparison with Trump and Putin. A summit that could be there if the bilateral will be fine. The meeting of Zelensky with Trump still presents himself difficult, and not only for the delicacy of the topics to be discussed. Between the two the relationships have always been fluctuating and the memory of the ‘clash’ in the February Oval study is still imprinted in memory. For Zelensky there was no – and probably there will probably not be on Monday – the red carpet unrolled for Putin ad anchorage, nor the Lusting words of the Trump ‘Showman’ staged with the leader of the Kremlin, between handshake, B2 in flight and congratulations.
“Russia is a great power,” said the president after meeting the Tsar. In Zelensky in February he said instead “you don’t have cards”. At the House Bianca Zelensky (and perhaps the Europeans if they decide to be there after the umpteenth meeting of the willing will also participate in Giorgia Meloni) will try to understand what the American president pushed to change his mind on the ceased, on which he had agreed with the Europeans.
The tycoon had in fact entered the summit saying that it would not have been happy if there had not been a respite immediately. But he came out ‘marrying’ Putin’s position. The leader of the Kremlin has in fact always declared himself against a ceased, preferring a peace agreement capable of facing – as he also said alongside Trump – the “deep causes” of the conflict, which for the Tsar include the existence of an independent Ukine, sovereign and aligned with the West. Furthermore, prosecuting peace also favors Russia because it allows it to continue the war while the talks take place for a global solution. For peace Putin has asked for not only territories, but also the Russian official language in Ukraine and security for the Orthodox Church. Requests that Europeans listened to from Trump before reiterating their support to Kiev and their commitment to continue their hard fist against Moscow, even with further penalties, if the conflict does not stop. For Trump, on the other hand, the penalties chapter is set aside for the moment: despite having won on several occasions, the president has clearly said that for now we no longer talk about it, as for the hypothesis of secondary duties against those who buy Russian oil. A move to take time and see if his understanding with Putin – that the usually a talkative Trump has not revealed directly – will translate into something concrete. “There is no agreement until the agreement is not there,” said the president, advising Zelensky to tighten an agreement by actually downloading all the weight of the decision on the Ukrainian leader. “Even if Alaska was not a Yalta 2.0”, as the former American ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul, Trump – according to the observers, noticed – fell into Putin’s trap and – as the Tsar wanted – is ready to make Zelensky (and of the Europeans) the scapegoat of a possible peace agreement on which the Tsar is ready to put the signature.