Ukraine Peace Talks: Putin Offers Moscow Meeting, Zelensky Rejects

“The unit among EU leaders in today’s virtual summit was palpable. Everyone is committed to lasting peace that protects the vital interests of safety both of Ukraine and Europe”. He writes it on X the high EU representative, Kaja Kallas.
“The EU will also continue to target the Russian war economy. The next package of penalties against Moscow should be ready by next month. I have inserted – concludes Kallas – these topics at the top of the agenda of the discussions of next week between the foreign ministers and the defense of the EU”.

“I spoke with the president of the EU Council Antonio Costa. He has just chaired a meeting of the European Council dedicated to the results of the negotiations that we and our European colleagues have held with President Trump in Washington. We took an important step towards the end of this war and the safety of Ukraine and the entire Europe. Reliable and functioning security guarantees for Ukraine are the most important result of our joint efforts, of all our partners and Above all, of the Ukrainian courage that defended our independence “. Volodymyr Zelensky writes it.
“With António we discussed the results of the meeting of the European Council and our further joint actions.
We appreciate the unity and the unshakable support of the European Union. We agreed to continue collaborating closely. We also talked about our next steps and the preparation of the new 19th EU sanctions package against Russia. The pressure must be increased until Russia adopt concrete measures to stop the war.
Separately, we discussed the importance of the unit between all 27 EU member states for the Ukraine path towards adhesion to the EU and the opening of negotiating clusters “, he added

“Tomorrow, through videoconference, I will preside over a meeting of the leaders of the Defense of the 32 allied countries. General Grynkewich, a supreme ally commander, will also be present, in his first participation in a meeting of the military committee.
While diplomatic efforts continue to guarantee peace in Ukraine, I await his update on the current security situation with interest. “Giuseppe Dragone Cavo, president of the NATO military committee, writes it on social media.

Vladimir Putin would have suggested Moscow to host a meeting with Volodymyr Zelensky. It reported two sources to the attention of the phone call between Donald Trump and the Russian president. “Putin mentioned Moscow” during their call on Monday, reported one of the sources to the FP, adding that Zelensky replied “No”.

The military teams of the willing coalition “will meet with their US counterparties in the next few days” to discuss plans aimed at providing “solid guarantees of safety” to Ukraine and “preparing the sending of a reassurance force” once the conflict with Russia is completed. This is what emerges from the note released by Downing Street after the British Prime Minister Keir Starmer co-president with the French president Emmanuel Macron a virtual conference with over 30 leaders of the countries gathered in the coalition of the willing. It was also discussed to exercise further pressures on Moscow through the sanctions. Starmer stressed that the meeting, which arrived after yesterday’s summit at the White House, strengthened the “sense of unity” among the participating countries and “the common goal of guaranteeing just and lasting peace for Ukraine”. For months in the encounters of the willing, there has been talk of a reassurance force, which provides for the hypothesis of sending troops on Ukrainian soil, however not close to the border line, once the hostilities ceased. But this initiative, in addition to the reserves that emerged in the same countries that should engage their soldiers in Ukraine, has always met the opposition of Moscow, reiterated last night, compared to a direct involvement of NATO Member States.

“The anti -rough coalition of the widening warflowers has failed to beat Donald Trump on its territory”. Thus, in a post in X X X, the former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev brings the sums of consultations yesterday to Washington with the participation of the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky and European leaders.
“Europe thanked and adoled” Trump, adds Medvedev, current deputy secretary of the national security council.
“The question – he writes again – is what music will play Kiev’s clown about guarantees and territories when he has returned home and has worn military uniform again”.

“I really want to go to heaven”. Donald Trump said it in an interview with Fox explaining his motivations in trying to end the war in Ukraine. The president stressed that he had not called Vladimir Putin while he was in the room with the Europeans in the White House because he would have been “disrespectful” for Putin.

Donald Trump excludes the sending of American troops to Ukraine as part of the security guarantees. In an interview with Fox, the president assured him calls. “You have my word,” he said.

Possible guarantees of the United States security to Ukraine could be provided by air. Donald Trump said it in an interview with Fox, stressing that there will be some form of security, but it cannot be NATO.

“I hope Putin is good, otherwise the situation will be hard. Zelensky has to show flexibility.” Donald Trump said it in an interview with Fox. “It is possible that” Vladimir Putin “does not want to reach an agreement. We will discover more on Putin in the next two weeks” stressing that the relationship with Putin is “important only if we manage to complete things”.

“Leave” that Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky meet first: they are the ones who have to make decisions. Donald Trump said it in an interview with Fox, criticizing Barack Obama for giving in to Crimea.

We cannot arrive at a peace agreement in Ukraine “without respect for the security interests of Russia and without the full respect of the rights of Russians and Russian who live in Ukraine”. This was stated by the Foreign Minister Serghei Lavrov in an interview on television Rossiya-24 cited by the Ria Novosti agency. These issues, added Lavrov, “must be quickly resolved in the context” of an agreement.

“I thank President Macron and President Meloni for the trust in our country” to host a Putin-Zelensky meeting in Geneva. “Other countries have already expressed a desire in this sense and Switzerland is very ready, even in a short term, to do so: it is our specialty, we know it well, from logistical to legal, technical or diplomatic issues. We are available”. The Swiss Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis said this in the press conference in Bern. “I constantly remembered this availability in contacts with the Russian Foreign Minister Serghei Lavrov in recent months”.

“Last year the Federal Council clarified the legal situation and defined the procedures” to “grant immunity to a person subject to international arrest warrant” coming to Switzerland, “if that person presents himself for a peace conference, not if he presents himself for private reasons”. “It’s all very clear, we know what to do, we also know the type of contact with the international criminal court and therefore we are ready, we could start the procedure tonight, we do not need to understand before what it is. It is a choice that Switzerland naturally can do thanks to its humanitarian and diplomatic tradition, in order to be able to bring the UN headquarters to Geneva speeches of peace”, explained Cassis.
“I remember that in July the International Parliamentary Union organized a meeting of the Presidents of the Parliaments in Geneva and that to welcome the President of the Duma, the Russian Parliament, we also had to take a tour of phone calls to have the ok of neighboring countries, but there has been no problem, we have this recognized role and in a few hours we have solved the situation. I believe we have this strength, we are capable of it, and we can guarantee security in all its dimensions. Of course they must be the great leaders who decide what the most appropriate place is “.

The National Security Councilors of the parties present yesterday at the top of the White House – as far as we learn from diplomatic sources – will take the work during the week to put the possible details of the security guarantees offered to Ukraine in white, to which the US president Donald Trump said he was willing to participate. “We do not currently have a precise picture on what they will be, the teams of the parties present at the meeting will continue to discuss over the next few weeks,” said a spokesman for the European Commission.

“We no longer give Ukraine weapons. We no longer give Ukraine money. Now we sell them weapons and European countries they pay them through NATO. They are using NATO to buy weapons and transfer them to Ukraine. This is another big change compared to the way this war was addressed only a few years ago, for example under the Biden administration”: the American secretary of state, Marco Rubio, said it in an interview with Fox News.

Russia is not against keeping any meeting for peace in Ukraine, “bilateral or trilateral level”. The foreign minister Serghei Lavrov mentioned by Tass said it.

However Lavrov added that any summit must be prepared “with the utmost care”. Therefore, he underlined again, cited by the Ria Novosti agency, we must proceed “step by step, gradually, at the level of experts, and proceed through all the necessary steps to prepare the leaders”.

“The security guarantees will be there”: the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, writes it on Telegram, stressing that the work on this theme will continue “tomorrow”. “Yesterday important talks were held in Washington with the President of the United States and European leaders. It is a truly significant step towards the end of the war and the safety of Ukraine and our people”, reiterates the head of state. “We are already working on the concrete contents of the security guarantees. Today we continue coordination at the level of leader, there will be discussions, we are preparing the appropriate formats”.

Russia believes that American president Donald Trump wants “sincerely to achieve a result that will be long -term, stable, reliable” for peace in Ukraine. The Foreign Minister Serghei Lavrov said this in an interview on television Rossiya-24 taken from Tass. “President Trump and his team, especially after the top in Alaska, began to face the resolution of this crisis much more deeply, understanding that it is necessary to eliminate primary causes, like us, like President Putin, we have constantly said,” added Lavrov.

The goal of Russia in Ukraine “has never been” the conquest of territories, but the “protection” of the Russian populations residing there, added Lavrov in the interview. “I would like to underline once again – said the head of Russian diplomacy – that we never said that we had to simply conquer some territory. Neither Crimea, nor Donbass or ninational have ever been our goal”. Where the Definition of ninetypiece includes the other Russian regions claimed by Moscow.

British premier Keir Starmer will preside this morning a virtual meeting of the so -called “coalition of the willing” after the interviews with the White House. This was announced by Downing Street according to which the Prime Minister will update the leaders of the allied countries on the outcome of the summit and discuss the next steps to be taken. At the center of the meeting are the security guarantees for Ukraine within a process towards the peace of which the American president Donald Trump and the Ukrainian Volodymyr Zelensky have discussed in the talks in Washington together with European leaders.

To co-see the meeting there is also the French president Emmanuel Macron, as the Elishadod specified. Among the participants, the presence of the German chancellor Friedrich Merz and the Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk is expected at the moment.

“Geneva could be the right headquarters” for the Putin-Zelensky talks, “Italy is favorable that they take place in Geneva because it is a country that has always worked for the construction of peace. Rome would also have been an ideal location, desired by Americans, Ukrainians and also by the others but there is the problem of the international criminal court, so it would have been more complicated. I believe that the Geneva headquarters can be the best office, I will also be favorable, Cassis “. Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said it on his arrival in Bern.

“Real progress” were made towards peace in Ukraine in the top of the White House. This was said by British Premier Keir Starmer in an interview with the BBC. The prime minister also described the interviews that involved the American president Donald Trump and the Ukrainian Volodymyr Zelensky one together with European leaders as “positive and constructive”, as well as underlining the “true sense of unity” that emerged during the meetings.

Around one night, the Committee of the 27 ambassadors of the European Union (Coreper) met for a first quick report on yesterday’s meetings in Washington and in view of the meeting by videoconference among European leaders, convened by the President of the European Council, Antonio Costa, for today at 1pm. In the videoconference he will also participate the president of the European Commission, Ursula von Der Leyen. A virtual meeting of the EU commissioners’ college is scheduled for tomorrow.

“Yesterday’s important meeting in Washington could mark the turning point for a path of peace in Ukraine that we all wanted and for which we worked”. The president of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola writes it on X. “After the summit in Alaska between the United States and Russia, the commitment of President Trump, President Zelensky and European Union leaders means that a possibility of true peace is now realistic. Difficult, but not impossible. The European Union is basically a peace project. We have always fought and always we will work for peace. We know the cost of war all too well. In order for it to last and not simply postponed to a larger war in the future. “This – concludes Metsola – is what Europe says since the first day. That’s why we are at the side of Ukraine. That’s why Europe will continue to do its part”.

China supports “all efforts” for peace between Russia and Ukraine, in the aftermath of the Washington summit held in the White House with the indication of a possible face to face between the presidents Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky to be kept in the coming weeks. “China always believes that dialogue and negotiations are the only solution to the Ukrainian crisis,” said the spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Mao Ning in daily briefing, adding that Beijing “maintains all useful efforts to contribute to peace”.

The negotiations on the security guarantees for Ukraine between the United States and the main European allies of Kiev will continue today: the British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said it yesterday in an interview with the BBC. “Now we will work with the United States on these security guarantees,” said Starmer in Washington. “We have commissioned our teams. Some of them will even arrive tomorrow (today, editor’s note) to start detailed work in this regard”. The British leader added that the guarantees “will reassure European citizens, Ukrainians, but in particular those of the United Kingdom”. Yesterday Zelensky said to journalists that security guarantees for Ukraine will be formalized within 10 days.

“In Washington there have been important interviews …. an important step was taken, a demonstration of true unity between Europe and the United States”: the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky writes it on Telegram after the meetings at the White House with the American president Donald Trump and the European leaders. The Head of State reiterated that “the security guarantees” are “a fundamental question, as a starting point to end the war”. “The leaders came in person to support Ukraine and discuss everything that will approach us with real peace, a reliable security architecture that will protect Ukrainian and all of Europe – he commented -. We continue to work, to coordinate our actions with all the allies who wish to end the war in a dignified way. Thanks to all those who help us”.

The place of the meeting between Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky will be decided shortly. The French president Emmanuel Macron said so, according to the Bloomberg agency reports. The trilateral meeting between Zelensky, Putin and Donald Trump could happen in two or three weeks, has highlighted Macron, specifying that Europeans must have a place at the negotiation table.