Volodymyr Zelensky says that there is no peace agreement without Ukraine participation

Ukraine will not accept any peace agreement agreed by the United States and Russia without their participation, said President Volodymyr Zelensky, after Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin promised to begin negotiations to end the war.

Trump said there was a “good possibility” to finish the conflict after he and the Russian president made a “long” phone call on Wednesday.

The president of the United States also said that he did not believe that it was “practical” that Ukraine joined NATO and that it was “unlikely” that he could return to his borders prior to 2014.

Zelensky said his country would not be excluded from negotiations. The Kremlin said that Ukraine “in one way or another” would participate in the conversations.

Separate, Trump announced a “high -level people” meeting from the United States, Ukraine and Russia in a Munich Security Forum on Friday.

He said he was not “sure exactly who will be there from any country.”

Russia, who does not participate in the annual forum, has not publicly commented on Trump’s claim.

Meanwhile, Zelensky’s advisor, Dmytro Lytvyn, told journalists that “no conversations with Russian are expected in Munich.”

Speaking to journalists on Thursday, Zelensky, who also received an individual call with Trump on Wednesday, said: “We cannot accept it, as an independent country, any agreement (made) without us.”

He said that “Europeans must also be at the negotiating table” and that he told Trump that his priority was “security guarantees”, something he does not see without the support of the United States.

In a subsequent publication about X discussing a call with Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, he said that the negotiations could not start without a united position of Ukraine, Europe and the USA. And Ukraine.

“I emphasized that Ukraine should negotiate from a position of strength, with strong and reliable security guarantees, and that NATO’s membership would be the most profitable for partners,” he said.

“I also warned world leaders who would not trust Putin’s preparation statements to end war.”

Ukraine European allies also rejected any movement towards a forced agreement in Kyiv.

The Secretary of Defense of the United Kingdom, John Healey, said that “there can be no negotiation on Ukraine without Ukraine, and the voice of Ukraine must be in the heart of any conversation.”

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz rejected a “peaceful peace” and his defense minister described him “unfortunate” Washington was already doing “concessions” to Kremlin.

In a speech for journalists from NATO conversations in Brussels, the head of EU Foreign Policy, Kaja Kallas, accused Washington of “appeasement” towards Russia.

“We should not get anything out of the table before the negotiations have begun because it plays before the court of Russia and that is what they want,” he said.

Trump, who made the first call from the White House recognized publicly with Putin from the Russian 2022 Invasion of Ukraine, said he would meet with Putin in Saudi Arabia.

Speaking to journalists on Wednesday at the Oval office, he said Putin “wants me to end” and waited for a stop soon.

When asked if Ukraine was an equal member in the peace process, he added “they have to make peace.”

Meanwhile, his Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said at a press conference at the NATO summit on Thursday that peace negotiations “will be had with” Putin and Zelensky “and described Trump as the” perfect merchant. ”

Hegesh, who on Wednesday said it was not “unrealistic” The conversations were directed by the president.

The Secretary of Defense also suggested financial aid to Ukraine during negotiations could be on the table, as well as the number of US troops in Europe.

After the overthrow of the Ukrainian President of Ukraine in 2014, Moscow attached the Peninsula of the Black Sea of ​​Crimea and supported the pro-ruse separatists in bloody struggles in eastern Ukraine.

The conflict broke out in the total war when Russia invaded Ukraine almost three years ago.

Moscow’s attempts to take control of the capital Kyiv were frustrated, but the Russian forces have taken around a fifth of the territory of Ukraine in the east and south, and have carried out air attacks throughout the country.

Ukraine has taken artillery and drone strikes, as well as a land offensive against the western region of Kursk in Russia.