Ukraine and its European allies have said the US that the ceasefire and clarity of security guarantees for Kiev should prevent any peace agreement with Russia, which includes negotiations on territory, according to people familiar with this matter.
Before the meeting on Wednesday in London, officials were looking for more details from Washington to sequence his proposal to stop the fighting in Ukraine and end the Russian invasion in full, currently until the fourth year. It is the last attempt to influence the conversations that left Europe under pressure when Washington sought to agree with Vladimir Putin and tries to develop difficult conditions on Kiev.
Although they want to work to support the US plan, Ukraine and European countries want to assure that Russia is willing to agree to the ceasefire to provide space for negotiating the final peace agreement, people said. They also want to be sure that Moscow is willing to accept an agreement that would include security guarantees from Western partners of Ukraine, allowing Kiev to maintain adequately serving and equipped army, adding speaking on condition of anonymity.
Trump warned last week that he would leave the effort to end the war unless the agreement was reached soon. Europeans frightened that in a hurry to stop fighting, they can be increasingly stacked against Kiev. While Ukraine stated that it is ready to agree with the unconditional ceasefire, the Russian preference is to focus on the final conditions of the agreement. Moscow was also powered by a hard contract in any ceasefire interviews, and Kyiv accused her of violating a partial 30 -day ceasefire that recently failed.
The Chief of the Staff of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenky, Andriy Yermak, said in a telegram contribution after the conversations in London ended that Kiev remained determined by Trump’s peace and regular consultations. The “complete and unconditional ceasefire” would be the first step towards the “full -fledged process of settlement and to achieve a fair and sustainable measure,” he said in an earlier post before meetings on Wednesday.
In the worrying development for Kiev, interviews in London were reduced among the highest officials from the US, Ukraine and the main European powers to technical meetings of US Foreign Minister Marco Rubio. Trump’s strange envoy Steve Witkoff, who was also expected to attend, instead travel to Moscow this week after a visit to Putin three times since the inauguration.
Yet the US needs Europeans on board to cancel sanctions against Russia, because changing the block restriction requires support for all Member States.
At a meeting in Paris last week, US officials submitted Europe and Ukraine a new proposal to end the war, which would effectively freeze the conflict mainly along the existing battle lines, Bloomberg previously informed. The US is also willing to accept the Russian occupation of Crimea, which is internationally recognized as Ukrainian territory, and to alleviate sanctions against Moscow within any potential agreement.
Froaching of the conflict would be a much greater victim for Ukraine, which tried to recover all the territory in the east and south of the country seized since 2014, including Crimea, and after the invasion in full scale that began in February 2022, he will have in February 2022.
Russia welcomes American “mediation efforts”, although many details of the settlement still need to be discussed and the work continues, the Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Wednesday according to the State intelligence service. Although there are no contacts with Ukraine or Europe, Putin is open to them in order to reach an agreement, Peskov said.
With the help of Akayla Gardner.
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