Ukraine and its European allies require Russia to accept a 30 -day high fire from Monday | International
The leaders of Germany, France, Poland and the United Kingdom traveled this Saturday together with Kiev in an unprecedented gesture in the over three years that lasts the war. The four allied European powers of Ukraine wanted to stage the support remained in the country invaded by Russia, in particular in front of the ambivalent strategy in the conflict of Donald Trump. The President of the United States has shown that sometimes it is closer to Moscow’s interests than in the European Championships. The Ukrainian president, Volodimir Zelenski, the new German chancellor, Friedrich Merz, the French president, Emmanuel Macron and the first ministers of Poland and the United Kingdom, Donald Tusk and Keir Starmer, spoke with Trump on the phone from Kyiv. In this conversation they proposed to the President of the United States to ask Vladimir Putin together A 30 -day high fire from Monday. Otherwise, Europe and the United States will double the economic pressure on Russia “with mass penalties”, according to Macron’s words. Starmer added that Russian refusal will also imply “military support to Ukraine”.
Merz, Macron, Tusk and Starmer arrived early in the train from Rzesów early in the morning, a Polish city near the Ukrainian border and where the airport is located that NATO used during the war for the transport of military assistance to the attacked country. The images of the four leaders spread by their teams wanted to transmit a camaraderie that was also reflected in visits to different emblematic places in the capital of Ukraine. “For the first time we have had the feeling that we are talking about a voice for a long time,” Tusk celebrated.
The appointment was organized as a call meeting Volunteer Coalition, a British initiative And the French, in which Spain also participates, to strengthen the defense of Ukraine. The rest of the thirty members of the coalition intervened at the summit for videoconference. The idea is that the temporary high fire acts from the period of negotiation for peace, as Zelenski has underlined in front of the media. Merz revealed that she spoke twice with Trump and that she made them know that “she shares this initiative and support it”. Starmer repeated that this strategy develops “together with the United States”.
“After talking to President Trump, we agreed to have a common vision for the next steps,” said Zelenski. These words have a particular importance because Washington had left European powers outside the discussions with Moscow. “All in common we can agree on the pillars of a future peace,” added the Ukrainian president.
The first representative of the Trump team to comment on the proposal of the summit was the special envoy of the White House for Ukraine, General Keith Kellogg. “A complete fire, on the ground, sea, air and on the infrastructure, the process will begin to end the largest and largest war in Europe from the Second World War”, wrote Kellogg on the Social Network X “, as President Trump reiterated, we must already stop killing”.
The war has left at least more than 100,000 Russian soldiers and about 70,000 died Ukrainians, according to data from independent analysis groups that control public notifications of the dead. The real figures are much higher, especially from the Russian side. Furthermore, in Ukraine, around 13,000 civilians lost their lives, according to the United Nations. In these over three years of invasion, the Kremlin has taken control of the province of Lugansk, from most of the province of Donetsk and the provinces of Jersón and Zaporiyia. Russia illegally annexed the Crimea peninsula in 2014.
The meeting of these European heads and government with Zelenski has also aimed at sending a sign of strength to counter The propaganda effect of the celebrations in Russia on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the Soviet victory in the Second World War. Putin received support in Moscow from 35 countries on Friday, in particular from the XI Chinese Jinping, from the Brazilian Lula da Silva and the Prime Minister Slovak, Robert Fico.
The moment is particularly delicate for the interests of the country invaded by the repeated champions that Trump had given to make Putin concessions in a hypothetical peace agreement. Zelenski is focusing his strategy on the demonstration of the republican that the Kremlin is not intended to negotiate the end of the war. “We all know the very thin line through which we are going on to keep the United States in the resolution of the conflict,” said Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, in a video conference intervention at the Kiev summit.
Trump loses patience
William Taylor, a former former Ambassador of the United States in Ukraine, said Thursday during the Kiiv Security Forum that “there could be a change in Washington” in favor of Ukraine positions. Taylor highlighted the best relationships between Trump and Zelenski, in particular From the meeting they held during the funeral of Pope FrancisLast April and with the signature of the agreement for which the United States will explode with Kiev the mineral resources of Ukraine. Trump indicated exactly that the ratification of the mineral agreement on Thursday at the Ukrainian Parliament was the reason to create the telephone interview with Zelenski.
Taylor added in his optimism that Trump’s probable penalties on Russia and the probable authorization of a first military assistance package for Ukrainian components for their F-16 fighters, also indicate that Washington could divert the distance from Moscow. Despite this, the President of the United States has evaluated positively The three -day truce that Putin ordered on the occasion of the holidays of 9 May. But the high fire has proven to be an entelechy, because the fighting on the front have continued and the Bombs of the Russian air have continued to punish the provinces in which the fights occur, as in summary. Yes, the long -haul Russian attacks have been suspended, with missiles or pump drones against cities away from the front.
“Trump is clearly losing patience with Putin,” said Merz This Saturday in an interview in the newspaper Bild. The Wall Street Journal On Friday, Trump had admitted in a recent meeting with entrepreneurs that Putin’s attitude was the main obstacle to carry out the peace process. Zelenski, Macron and Merz had maintained telephone conversations in the last few days with Trump in which they insisted on the president of the United States in which the walnuts in Putin are squeezed if he confirms that he has no desire to take on a high fire.
European troops
In the interventions of the European leaders in front of the media, the debate on how respect for the truce could be monitored. Zelenski suggested that the United States must have the initiative in this check. The Ukrainian president also indicated that it is early to raise demilitarized areas along the front, although it is contrary to this idea because in the past Russia has shown that it does not satisfy its word. He put this idea on the Kellogg table this week in an interview on Fox News.
Macron and Starmer also underlined the need to intensify the debate between members of the members of volunteers on the format of the European military forces that could be deployed in Ukraine to ensure the termination of hostilities. Different countries, such as Germany or Spain, have raised their doubts In this regard. The British Prime Minister has taken for granted that without the presence of European troops, Russia will ensure a hypothetical agreement.
