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President Trump, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and leaders from numerous NATO countries are celebrating a virtual meeting on Wednesday before Friday’s program. Summit in Alaska between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Trump was scheduled to join him from the White House.
“They will talk to European leaders in a short time. They are great people who want to see an agreement made,” Trump said in a publication on social networks before the meeting.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz was calling the series of virtual meetings on Wednesday in an attempt to have the voice of European and Ukrainian leaders who are heard before the Alaska Summit, which they have been left aside.
Zelenskyy joined Merz in Berlin, and met with European leaders on Wednesday morning in preparation for the virtual call with Trump and vice president JD Vance approximately one hour later.
A call was expected among the leaders of the countries involved in the “coalition of the provisions”, those who are prepared to help the surveillance of any future peace agreement between Moscow and kyiv, take place after that.
Zelensky said on Wednesday that Ukraine and his allies must work together so that Russia ends his invasion, French news agency AFP reported.
“Pressure on Russia must be exerted for a fair peace. We must learn from the experience of Ukraine and our partners to avoid deception by Russia. There are currently no signs that Russians are preparing to end the war,” Zelenskyy said in a social media statement.
On Wednesday, Merz promised to help Ukraine to develop his own long -range missile systems that would be free of limitations imposed by the west in its use and objectives while the kyiv government struggles to repel Russia invasion.
Trump has said that he wants to see if the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, takes the end of the war seriously, now in his fourth year, describing Friday’s summit as “a felt meeting” where he can evaluate the intentions of the Russian leader.
However, Trump has disappointed allies in Europe by saying that Ukraine will have to give up some territory controlled by the Russian. He has also said that Russia must accept land swaps, although it was not clear what would be expected to be delivered.
European allies have pressed for the participation of Ukraine in any peace conversation, fearful that the discussions that exclude kyiv could favor Moscow.
Mr. Trump crouched on Monday the repeated opportunities to say that he would press Zelenskyy participating in his discussions with Putin, and was derogatory with Zelenskyy and his need to be part of an effort to seek peace. Trump said that after Friday, a meeting could be organized between Russian and Ukrainian leaders, or that it could also be a meeting with “Putin and Zelenskyy and me.”
Zelenskyy He warned that “he talks about us, without us, he will not work“
Ukrainian and European concerns
The Europeans and Ukraine distrust that Putin, who has fought the largest land war in Europe since 1945 and used Russia’s energy to try to intimidate the European Union, could ensure favorable concessions and establish the contours of a peace agreement without them.
The general fear of many European countries is that Putin will look at one of them below if he wins in Ukraine.
Zelenskyy said Tuesday that Putin wants Ukraine to withdraw from the remaining 30% of the Donetsk region that still controls as part of a high fire agreement, a proposal that the leader categorically rejected.
Zelenskyy reiterated that Ukraine would not give up any territory that controls, saying that this would be unconstitutional and that it would only serve as a springboard for a future Russian invasion.
He said that the diplomatic discussions led by the US. UU. Focusing on ending the war have not addressed the key Ukrainian demands, including security guarantees to avoid future Russian aggression and include Europe in negotiations and rehabilitate Putin.
General Sir Richard Shirreff, a former NATO deputy director, a supreme commander of Allied Europe, told CBS News Partner Network BBC News that he did not believe that Friday’s meeting between Trump and Putin could lead to the end of the war between Russia and Ukraine.
“Russia has to recognize and Putin has to recognize that Zelenskyy is president of Ukraine, recognizes the Ukrainian Constitution and the right of Ukraine to exist as a sovereign state. And that will only happen … when Russia obtains a really bloody nose. And that happens, we need to see an adequate strategic thought of swimming, of the United States, that is what is what it is what is what it is what is what it is what is what it is what is what it is transatlantic.
Shirreff said that the end of war would require Ukraine to become a NATO member.
“Even if Putin advances or falls under a bus, we are likely to have someone in their equal place as a hard, just as ultra -nationalist and so determined to move forward (with the acquisition of Ukraine of Russia),” said Shirreff. “So I think we have to recognize that European security means deterrence, a deterrent band, as I have said many times, from the Baltic to the Black Sea, with Ukraine as a member of NATO. Now, however far -fetched that it may seem from where we go at this time the reality … any type of commitment now, any recruitment of the liberation of conflict, we will only continue to postpone at this time.” “.” “.” “.” “.” “
Trump-Poutin Summit that will take place at the Alaska Military Base
The summit between Trump and Putin will be the first meeting in person between Putin and a president of the United States since Russia invaded Ukraine more than three years ago.
The meeting will take place at the Joint the Mentorf-Richardson, at the northern end of Anchorage, said a senior White House to CBS News on Tuesday. Since it is the maximum tourist season in Alaska, there were few viable options to organize conversations. Possible places for the high -risk meeting also necessary to meet the security requirements.
The White House Secretary, Karoline Leavitt, told reporters early that the mechanics of the meeting “was still being ironed.”
Leavitt described the meeting as “an listening exercise for the president.”
“Only a part involved in this war will be present, so this is for the president to go and obtain, again, a firmer and better understanding of how we can put an end to this war,” Leavitt said.
“Trump has obviously not listening to at all because he is very clear, and Putin continues to make it clear, what are his demands, and has not retreated a dialogue of his maximalist demands,” said the former Supreme NATO cycle Allied, Europe Shirreff. “And those, as we have heard, are simply impossible to accept for Ukraine without capitulation.”
Speaking to journalists in the White House information room on Monday, Trump expressed optimism that his meeting with Putin will be “constructive” and said he plans to establish a meeting in person involving Putin and Zelenskyy.
“The next meeting will be with Zelenskyy and Putin or Zelenskyy and Putin and I,” Trump said.
Two sources familiar with these negotiations told CBS News on Tuesday that the United States is working on a place for a Trump-Poutin-Zelenskyy meeting as soon as the end of next week.
Haley Ott contributed to this report.
