Europe and Ukraine insist on their demands to the US; Russia disdain Franco-British initiative

The Ukrainian President, Volodimir Zelenskihe appealed on Monday to the support received from Europe to re-ask the United States to take into account his demand for solid security guarantees for Ukraine before establishing formal negotiations with Russia, from where the Kremlin reduced importance to the Franco-British initiative to present a route of its own to peace.

“We are all united at a main point: for real peace, real security guarantees are needed. And this is the position of all of Europe, of the entire continent. United Kingdom, the European Union, Norway, Türkiye”Zelenski said in a speech to the nation issued this morning, after a summit held in London in which representatives of these countries surpassed him after his rugged visit to the White House.

Zelenski He added that the main European and Ukraine leaders will define in the short term “Common positions” which will later send you to the president of the United States, Donald Trump.

The “Common positions“To which he referred Zelenski They will depart from a Franco-British initiative announced Sunday by the United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Starmer, with which the countries involved aspire to increase military support to Ukraine to reach negotiations in a position of force while agreed to create a European peace force that has support from the United States.

Collision points with Trump

Trump He has been in favor of postponing the issue of security guarantees until the fire has been achieved. The president of the United States has also avoided committing to continue putting together Ukraine.

The claims he made Zelenski On both issues were one of the reasons for Trump’s irritation in the dispute they held on Friday at the Oval Office, which led the president of the United States to cancel the rest of the visit of the Ukrainian President.

The Kremlin considers the Franco-alemán plan outlined by contradictory Starmer. “There (in London) statements were heard about the need to urgently guarantee a higher level of financing for Ukraine. That is clearly not for a peace plan, but, surely, for the continuation of military actions”Said Dmitri Peskov, spokesman for Kremlin, at his telephone press conference this Monday.

Peskov also referred to the diplomatic debacle starring Zelenski and Trump in the White House. “kyiv and Zelenski do not want peace. They want to continue the war”, It was his conclusion about what was seen in the Oval Office. Kremlin spokesman said the gap open for the public verbal confrontation will be “difficult“To fix.

The dispute continues to bring tail

The President Zelenski He has repeatedly said since the clash with Trump on Friday that he is still willing to sign the agreement for Ukraine to contribute his natural wealth to the creation with the United States of a common investment fund that benefits the US economy and contributes to the reconstruction of Ukraine.

Both parties had agreed a final version of the agreement that had to be signed in the White House after the meeting with the media that the agenda jumped through the air.

The White House has demanded from Zelenski an apology, but the Ukrainian president has defended his behavior in the oval office and has insisted that it was his obligation to defend the Ukrainian position.

Friday’s tension scenes continue to bring tail on both sides of the Atlantic. In his X account, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry has referred to Trump’s sarcastic comments and his surroundings to Zelenski for not dressing suit on his visit to the White House.

“The Ukrainians have their costumes. Hundreds of thousands (from Ukrainians) changed their office clothes for military uniforms to protect their homes and their families. For others, their uniforms symbolize saving lives”, Says the message, which is accompanied by photographs of military, doctors and uniformed emergency workers and Zelenski himself in the antibala vest during a visit to the front.

Also in X, the Ukrainian presidential advisor Mikhail Podoliak has argued that the United States’s attempts to restore their relations with Russia are condemned to failure. “Each new administration of the United States believes that the crisis in relations with Russia is due to the diplomatic errors of its predecessors. The case is not at all”, Wrote Podoliak, who attributed the alleged impossibility of understanding to Russia’s inability to fulfill commitments.

The Trump administration has warned kyiv that he will not accept criticism in his policy about Russia.