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Volodymyr Zelskyy refused to call Ukraine an immediate ceasefire in its war with Russia and stated that it would be “failure for all” if the cessation of hostility was not accompanied by detailed security guarantees.
A defiant Ukrainian president said he had not seen that a change was needed for Explosive Series with Donald Trump In the White House on Friday or came up with the plan to save his relationship with the US President, even though he revised his gratitude to the American people.
“This relationship will continue because this is more than just a relationship at one moment,” Zeletskyy who spoke more than a dozen European leaders at the London Summit On Sunday, he said with reference to a bust-up that shocked Kyivské allies.
Trump and his allies said that Kyiv should be willing to agree with the ceasefire, the point echoed Lord Peter Mandelson, Great British Ambassador to Washington on Sunday.
Zeletskyy said that Russian inability to observe the ceasefire in Eastern Ukraine after he thought of him in 2014, convinced him that it would be a mistake to agree to stop fighting without a coercive mechanism supported by military force.
“If you do not have the end of the war and you do not have security warranties, no one is able to control a ceasefire,” Stansted Zelenkyy said from London, when he prepared to fly back to Ukraine.
The Ukrainian leader was asked for a report in the French newspaper Le Figaro that France and the United Kingdom had proposed “a monthly ceasefire in the air, sea and energy infrastructure”, but refused to comment.
British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said he would work on the stabilization force plans for Ukraine The involvement of France and potentially different countries other than the Trump will be in the hope of convincing him to provide an American back for any European mission.
The Ukrainian leader said that Starmer's announcement was a “good signal”, but it is still necessary to develop many details.
“We will have a work plan of events and a clearer vision of what guaranteeing guarantee can be guaranteed by Ukraine,” he said of Sunday session. “For us, security guarantees are certain that after this hot phase the same things will not happen.” [is over]”
Zeletskyy said that he had no direct contact with Trump since Friday's meeting, but there was a communication between officials and was “ready to continue dialogue”. Said he was ready for his ministers to sign a disputed trade Together use the rights to the mineral of Ukraine With the US government, which he was supposed to do on Friday in an oval office.
Zeletskyy also said it was important to meet the president face to face, because too many mixed news came from Trump's administration.
“All these structures are sending each other signals. And I think it would be easier to have more time for direct dialogue.
“I don't know their tactics,” he said, adding that he didn't want a “surprise” in interviews with the US.
He said it was right to have a sincere conversation with Trump, but accused the “absolutely open” format of Friday's interviews that were performed before the media.
Zeletskyy asked how long Ukraine could defend against a Russian invasion on a full scale without much American military assistance, and said that Kiev would “want to hope for new help” as well as supplies approved at the end of the former President Joe Biden administration.
“It's not beneficial to anyone.” [the military aid] stop, ”he said, adding that“ he will help [Russian President Vladimir] Putin exclusively ”.
