The Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelenskyhe reacted this Saturday to the news that the leaders of the United States and Russia, Donald Trump and Vladimir Putinwill meet next Friday in Alaska and said that the decisions made without Ukraine are contrary to peace and “are born dead.”
“They are decisions that cannot work. And we all need real and genuine peace. A peace that people respect”he said in an English message published in X Zelensky, who had claimed to be present at a leaders’ summit about the end of the war, as well as European participation.
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He Ukrainian President indirectly alluded to the information that has leaked about Trump’s alleged proposal to Putin, which according to some media would go through Freeze the conflict in exchange for lifting Moscow sanctions.
“We are not going to reward Russia for what has perpetrated”emphasized and pointed out that all international partners must understand “What is a decent peace”.
Zelensky pointed, on the one hand, to It must be Russia who puts an end to warsince it is the one who started it and who is lengthening it.
He also rejected, once again, the possibility that an agreement with Russia implies a assignment, at least formal, of the Ukrainian territories occupied with Crimea, Donetsk, Lugansk, Zaporiyia and Jersón.
The Russian president, Vladimir Putin; and the president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky. (Photos of Alexey Danichev / Teresa Suarez / AFP)
“The answer to the Ukrainian territorial issue is already contained in the Constitution of Ukraine. No one will deviate from this and no one can do so. Ukrainians will not give their territory to the occupant,” he said.
He Ukrainian President He concluded highlighting his willingness to work with Trump and with the rest of his partners in pursuit of a “real and, above all, durable” peace, which is not in danger of “collapsing because of Moscow’s wishes.”
Both the Kremlin and the White House confirmed in the Last hours that the first meeting between Putin and an American president Since the Ukraine War began, next August 15 in Alaska.
The meeting was completed as a result of the visit of the American envoy Steve Witkoff To Moscow last Thursday, the day before the ultimatum given by Trump expires so that Russia took measures to end the war, under penalty of new sanctions.
