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European leaders have transferred to get a place on the table in Ukraine's peace conversations after The United States President Donald Trump speaks directly to Russian President Vladimir Putin and announced the immediate start of the negotiations.
Trump said he had had a “high -produced phone conversation” on Wednesday and will probably meet Putin personally in the near future. He then informed Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelenski on the call, but did not come to whether Ukraine would be an equal participant in the negotiations.
“I think they have to make peace that people are killed, and I think they have to make peace …” Trump said when he pressed both sides to start conversations to end the three -year war.
In tensions between the Trump and Europe Administration, German Defense Minister Boris Pistory said it was “regret” that Washington had made “discounts” to Russia before even negotiations on peace began.
Europe “will have to live directly” with the consequences, he said, so “of course we have to be part of the negotiations.”
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz expressed his concern that Trump could force Ukraine in a bad peace deal to leave him facing a heightened Russia. “The next task is to ensure that there is no dictated peace,” he told News Outlet Politico.
Swedish Defense Minister Pal Johnson said European countries provided about 60 percent of Kiev's military support last year and should participate, especially given the US demands to take more responsibility for the long -term security of Ukraine.
“It's very natural that we are involved in discussions,” Johnson said.
“Pursuing this illusion goal”
The comments came to the sidelines of the NATO Summit in Brussels, which many European employees hoped to be their opportunity to affect us, thinking about the war. But it soon became clear that the Trump administration was moving forward without them.
NATO Secretary -General Mark Rute, who chaired the meeting, said any agreement between Russia and Ukraine, is crucial to “The Peace Deal is permanent, Putin knows that this is the end that he can never again again To try to catch a piece of Ukraine again. “
He insisted that Ukraine should be “closely included” in peace talks.
In his presidential campaign, Trump promised to end the war, but had shared some details on how to do it. In a television interview over the weekend, he said that at one point Ukraine could become a Russian, provoking fears from NATO allies.
Ukraine and its European allies insisted that every transaction should seek Russia's withdrawal from captive Ukrainian land.
But the new US Secretary of Defense Pete Heges said that the return to Ukraine's borders before 2014 was an “unrealistic goal”. “The pursuit of this illusion goal will only prolong the war and cause more suffering,” he added.
Heget also poured cold water on the desire of Ukraine to receive NATO membership. “The United States does not believe that NATO's membership of Ukraine is a realistic result of an agreed agreement.”
Not “betrayal”
However, the US Secretary of Defense denied that Washington had betrayed KYIV by negotiating its future without its full participation.
“There is no betrayal there. There is an admission that the whole world and the United States are invested and are interested in peace. Mir for negotiation, “Heget told reporters before the NATO Defense Ministers meeting.
The Pentagon chief defended the US approach, saying that the world is fortunate to have Trump, “the best negotiator on the planet by bringing together two countries to find a contractual peace” and warned that the war in Ukraine should be a “call for Awakening “for European allies of NATO to spend more on their own defense budgets.
Heget also made it clear that the United States would not deploy troops on Earth. “Instead, every security guarantee must be supported by capable European and non -European troops,” he said.
The Kremlin said it not only wanted negotiations for Ukraine with the United States, but also on European security and “concerns” of Moscow, which in 2021 asked NATO to return to its borders since 1997.
“Certainly all issues related to the security of the European continent, especially in those aspects that relate to our country, the Russian Federation, must be discussed exhaustively and we expect this to be so,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.
But when they asked him if the European nations would have a place on the table, he said it was premature to talk about the form of negotiations.
In the meantime, China welcomed the proposed conversations between Trump and Putin to end the war in Ukraine.
“Russia and the United States are both influential forces and China welcomes efforts to strengthen communication and dialogue on a number of international issues,” said a spokesman for the Beijing Foreign Ministry on Thursday.
China constantly maintains that negotiations are the only viable path to resolving the crisis. From the beginning, President Jinping is striving for a political decision, the spokesman said.
