Ukrainian President Voldy Mirzelensky said after meeting German Vice President Vance on Friday that President Kiev values Trump's “resolution” to end the war in Eastern Europe.
Zelensky has had a “good” meeting with Vance, who was in Munich along with Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Trump Ukraine's special envoy, Ki Kellogg, and Kiev is ready to “quickly” reach a peace deal. He said there was.
“Our team will continue to work on the document. We will address many important issues, welcome General Kellogg to Ukraine and look forward to further meetings and a deeper assessment of the situation on the ground,” Zelensky said. I said in my post on Friday Social Platform x.
“We are ready to move towards real peace as quickly as possible. The Ukrainian president added, we will help to stop the war and ensure Ukrainian justice and security assurances. We deeply appreciate President Trump's possible resolve.
In a speech at the Munich security conference early Friday, Zelensky said that even before the US began to change the US approach to war that Ukraine had been raging for nearly three years, Ukraine joined the NATO military alliance. He said he didn't want to do that.
“The US has never seen us on NATO, they just talked about it. They really didn't want us on NATO,” he said. Later, he added, “We will create NATO in Ukraine” if Ukraine is not permitted to join the military alliance.
Trump is calling for peace agreements to be reached in conflict. He spoke separately with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Zelensky on Wednesday, and the Ukrainian leader said it was “not comfortable” that the chief commander first dialed the Kremlin.
Later that day, the president told reporters he was unsure whether Ukraine could return to building pre-2014 borders before Russia annexed Crimea.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegses said Kyiv's insertion into NATO “doesn't believe it is a realistic result of the negotiated settlement,” he appears to be walking back on Thursday, reporters “It's all on the table.”
Trump's recent approach to reaching a ceasefire worries European leaders. Zelensky said Thursday that Ukraine would not accept a potential agreement between Russia and the US.
Vance, who has expressed his skepticism about Washington's aid to Ukraine in the past, criticised European leaders on Friday in his speech at the conference.
“If you're running for fear of your voters, there's nothing America can do for you,” Vance said, pointing to the war in Eastern Europe.
