Calling the creation of an integrated European military force, Ukrainian President Volodmi Zelanski said that the continent should be self-sufficient amidst the constant threat from Russia and uncertainty about American support as well as “this new reality” I said in.
“We should create the armed forces of Europe so that the future of Europe depends only on Europeans and decisions about Europe have been made in Europe,” Zelancesi said in a speech at the Munich Security Conference on 15 February.
In the midst of concerns in Kiev and Brussels that they could be sidelined in an effort to end the Russia’s full -scale invasion, resulting in a deal in favor of Moscow, reiterated that Ukraine and Europe in any talk must contain.
“Ukraine never wants to accept deals behind the back with his participation,” Zelancesi said. “The same rule must apply to the whole of Europe. No decisions about Ukraine without Ukraine – no decision about Europe without Europe.”
“We should act as Europe, not as a few different people,” Zelancesi said.
Speaking about three years after Russia started a full -scale invasion, he said “Do not take membership of NATO for Ukraine from the table” and said that Kiev Wilde does not agree to any ceasefire without real safety guarantee Is.
“If NATO is not membership, the conditions for making another NATO in Ukraine,” he said.
He questioned the US commitment to Europe and said: “Does America need Europe? As a market, yes, as a partner – I don’t know.”
Zelansky’s address came a day after a meeting with top US officials, including Vice President JD Wanes, who stressed the need for “sustainable, permanent peace” in Ukraine in his speech on 14 February.
Zelansky told Vance that Ukraine wants a “security guarantee” from Washington before any conversation with Russia when the war of nearly three years ends.
The United States has sent mixed signs on its strategy, expressing concern in Kiev that Ukraine may be forced into a bad deal that leaves Putin.
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told the NATO Defense Minister earlier this week that the “unrealistic” boundaries of Ukraine are not to expect to return to their 2014 posts and NATO membership.
Ukraine demands Russia -says with the region and it should receive NATOMIP or equivalent security guarantee to prevent Moscow from attacking again.
Speaking in Warsaw on 14 February, he again warned that the US European NATO partners would have to do more to protect their own and to secure future Ukraine peace.
Hegseth argued that to interact with Russia, you have “not to trust President Vladimir Putin”.
Two days ago, US President Donald Trump said that he had “long and highly productive phone calls with Putin and said he agrees that his teams should start negotiating immediately.
Zelansky replied that he would not accept any deal made without Ukraine’s participation.
On February 14, an interview with NBC was asked if he is confident that Ukraine would be insecure in one and a few years if a ceasefire reached a break, Zelensky said: “Yes, I think it could happen.”
He wanted to come to the conversation table to get a ceasefire deal to not end the war, rather to end some restrictions on Russia and to revive the Moscow army.
“It’s real what he wants. He wants, because of the ceasefire, finished, train, train, take off some restrictions,” Zelansky said.
Vance, who is representing Trump at the high-profile meeting of world leaders and foreign policy experts, said the United States wants “such peace that is taking Eastern Europe into a struggle a few years below the road Is.”
Vance said that many “good conversations” with Ukraine would have been followed by a lot “in the coming days, weeks and months”. ,
Zelancesi agreed, called the meeting with Vance “a good conversation” and said that Kiev wants to work towards ending Russia, was in Ukraine, but said “we need real safety guarantee.”
Some information for this report came from NBC News.
