Security guarantees for Ukraine require readiness to fight Russia, says Finland’s president | Ukraine
Finland President Alexander Stubb said that security guarantees for Ukraine, discussed by the “willing coalition ,, will force the European countries that signed to fight Russia if Moscow launched a military action against Ukraine in the future.
Stubb, before traveling to New York for the UN General Assembly in an interview in Helsinki, “essence of security guarantees is a deterrent. This deterrence needs to be reasonable to be reasonable and reasonable,” he said.
Authorized, guarantees will only come into force after a future agreement between Ukraine and Russia, but insisted that Russia will not be veto on the formats.
“Russia’s independent nation -state has absolutely no words in the sovereign decisions… So it is not a problem for me that Russia will participate or will not participate. Of course they will not, but that’s not the point.”
After the Paris meeting last month, the French President Emmanuel Macron told reporters that 26 countries committed to being a part of a “guarantee power” in Ukraine and some of them committed “on the ground, at sea or in the air”.
However, the biggest question of many people in Kiv is whether the regulations will come with concrete commitments. When asked whether the guarantees would mean that European countries will be ready to interact with Russia in the event of future aggression against Ukraine, Stubb said: “This is the definition of security guarantees.”
However, in most European capitals, it is clear that promises to a post -war Ukraine are generally more “assurance ından than company commitments. So far, the policy of most Western countries has been to support Ukraine, but to minimize a direct risk of conflict with Russia. However, if Stubb is not supported by a real force, any guarantee would be meaningless.
“Safety guarantees in essence are deterrence and deterrence needs to be reasonable and it needs to be strong to make sense. And that means strategic communication, so we don’t make security guarantees in the air, but we do real security guarantees and Russia knows it, STUBB said.
Stubb has appeared as a key player in peace negotiations in recent months and established a close relationship with US President Donald Trump, including golf tours. The personal connection meant that Finland could play a major role in communication between Trump and European leaders, a population of 5.6 million. Stubb said that he and Trump are still in contact with “telephone and other ways” and expect the couple to hold a bilateral meeting this week.
Stubb said that several times this year, the US president has begun to lose his patience with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin, but so far Trump’s challenging words about Putin from time to time, a series of Trump-Set’s deadline to make a peace agreement passed too much. Instead, Trump launched the red carpet for Putin in Alaska last month.
Stubb said that he thought progress had been made, but “not a big base, not a big, step by step”. In the case of Ukrainian negotiations of Europe, the question of whether the US has to admit that it is not a reliable ally, Stubb said that his nation has another option to try as hard as possible to be friends with the Trump administration.
“I think with the US President of the Finnish President, whoever is,” Stubb said. “Foreign policy is always based on three columns. Values, interest and power. Small states only have values and interests… But we can have an impact instead of power. Participation is better than separation, hell or high water,” he added.
Last week, Stubb, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met in Kiev, and Ukraine could continue to fight a long war if necessary, he said he could reject suggestions as “fake news ..
Stubb said that most of the focal point in the UN this week will be on Palestine this week, but hoped to have a few meetings with Zelenskyy and others about Ukraine. On security guarantees, he said that a “return to American back ver would be necessary to give them a real power, and admitted that the Trump administration was not yet full of what he was willing to commit.
However, if there is no progress in the end of the war, the speech of the guarantees may be completely hypothetical. Zelenskyy said that he was willing to meet Putin as Trump requested, but Putin said he would only meet Zelenskyy in Moscow or that he would meet a large number of Russian demands.
Stubb now acknowledged that there is no chance of bringing Putin to the table. “This war is too big to lose. Since the end of the Cold War, he probably made the biggest strategic mistake in recent history and failed for all strategic purposes.
