Focus turns to security guarantees after Ukraine summit
Ukrainian and European allies were buoyed with the promise of security guarantees to help Donald Trump’s war for Kiev to end the Ukrainian War for Kiev, but encountered many unanswered questions, including how willing Russia would be willing to play ball.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy greeted the extraordinary summit in the White House on Monday to end the most deadly conflict in Europe in 80 years and to establish a three -sided meeting with Russia’s Vladimir Putin and the US President in the coming weeks.
At the summit, Zelenskiy, surrounded by the leaders of allies, including Germany, France and England, was a sharp contrast with the disaster meetings in the Oval Office in February.
However, beyond the optics, the path of a permanent peace is deeply uncertain, and Zelenskiy can be forced to make painful concessions to end a war that analysts have killed or injured more than 1 million people.
Despite the temporary relief in Kiev, there was no permission in the war.
Ukraine Air Force, the largest in August Ukraine on an night attack on the night Russia started 270 drones and 10 missiles, he said.
The Ministry of Energy said Russia aims for energy facilities in the Central Poltava region, which hosts Ukraine’s single oil refinery and caused major fires.
Zelenskiy said he was working on the content of the authorities on Tuesday.
Russia did not make a commitment to a meeting between Putin and Zelenskiy.
Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that Moscow did not reject any format to discuss the peace process in Ukraine on Tuesday, but any meeting of the national leaders should be “very carefully prepared”.
Putin warned that Russia would not tolerate troops from the NATO alliance on the territory of Ukraine.
In addition, Russia’s military control, including the terrain, including the land last Friday, Trump in Alaska after his own summit negotiations did not show signs of withdrawal from the demands of the region.
Trump did not specify the form of the US security guarantees in the form and did not insist that Russia would accept a ceasefire before any peace negotiation started.
The US President also told Ukraine to forget to regain the control of the Crimea, annexed by Russia in 2014 or to join NATO.
Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said that Zelenskiy and his allies “thanked Europe and sucked” and said that they could not “leave behind”.
While the latest direct negotiations between Russia and Ukraine took place in Türkiye in July, Putin rejected Zelenskiy’s face -to -face invitation in May.
“President Trump has now opened the door of the negotiation room for him, and Putin should enter now,” German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul Deutschlandfunk Radio broadcasting. He said.
Which security guarantees can be presented to Ukraine: “We are working straight to specify this.”
Ukraine’s allies will hold talks in the form of so -called “willing coalition” on Tuesday to discuss the forward -looking path.
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, who also participated in the talks on Monday, said that the Ukraine NATO membership was not discussed, but there was a discussion about the “5th article” security guarantees for the country.
Article 5 of NATO’s Foundation Treaty covers the principle of collective defense in which an attack on any of the 32 members is considered an attack on everyone.
