The president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky reiterated in an interview that was broadcast on Sunday that his country “never“I would accept a peace agreement achieved by the United States and Russia if Ukraine did not have a place at the negotiating table.
In an interview in the program “Meet the Press”Of the NBC, Zelensky tried to avoid criticism of the president Donald Trump And instead he praised his strength.
He said he had told Trump during a phone call, shortly after Trump and the president Vladimir Putin Russia will talk for 90 minutes last week, which Putin It is not reliable And he fears Trump.
Zelensky said he believed that Putin was “scared” by Trump, playing with Trump’s desire to be seen as strong and the hope that the US president could push Putin towards an agreement that would otherwise agree otherwise.
“I said he is a liar,” said Zelensky who told Trump about Putin.
“And he said: ‘I think my feeling is that it is ready for these negotiations.”
“But I think he is really a little scared by President Trump. And I think the president has this opportunity, and it is strong. And I think he can really push Putin to peace negotiations. ”
Zelensky’s interview occurred while three senior foreign policy advisors were expected in the Trump administration – the Secretary of State Marco Rubio; Mike Waltz the National Security Advisor; and Steve Witkoff the envoy for the Middle East who also works on matters between Ukraine and Russia – met with Russian officials in Saudi Arabia in the coming days to discuss a path to end the war.
They would be the first important conversations between the two countries about the conflict, Three years later of the large -scale invasion of Russia.
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Zelensky also said that Ukraine had obtained intelligence information that Putin is gathering forces for a training mission that resembles the one he made just before the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
Zelensky implied, without offering details, that the same could happen again.
The Ukrainian President described his conversations at the Munich Security Conference with the Vice President JD VANC Hey blond as an initial step.
He said that Keith Kellogg the retired general who is Trump’s special envoy to Ukraine and Russia, will visit Ukraine this week, as part of a Zelensky effort to demonstrate what the battlefield is like.
But he emphasized that there is still no “real plan” for peace, “because they can’t have it without us.”
He said that it will depend on Trump to decide what type of security guarantee Ukraine receives, but rejected Trump’s suggestion that Ukraine membership in the NATO alliance It was not practical.
Zelensky had been presented with a leaf of terms that would have given the United States half of its mineral resources in exchange for US support.
Zelensky rejected that agreement, that US officials have presented as a way of investing in the future of Ukraine, but also to reimburse the United States for the help he has provided for the war effort.
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In “Fox News Sunday”Waltz defended him as the best option for Ukraine security.
“We are talking about growing the cake for the Ukrainian economy,” said Waltz.
“And I can’t think of a better security guarantee than to be co-in-depth with President Trump, with the American people in the future, and have those investments as protection and themselves, first of all.”
He also said that the American public had the right “to be recovered, it deserves to have some compensation for the billions that have invested in this war.”
“President Trump is rethinking all the dynamics here,” said Waltz.
“That has some uncomfortable people, but I think Zelenskyy would be very wise when entering this agreement with the United States. There is no better way to secure them in the future. ”