Brussels (dpa-AfX)-The Ukrainian President Wolodymyr Selenskyj asked for security guarantees to end the NATO for the end of the Russian aggression war before meeting US President Donald Trump. The guarantee must work like Article 5 of NATO, Selenskyj said to journalists in Brussels at a meeting with EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. What is meant is the military assistant clause, according to which other countries stand up for a attacked country. Ukraine’s EU membership is also a guarantee of the security of the country, said Selenskyj.
Selenskyj wants to meet in Washington on Monday via Trumps with Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin in Alaska and speak about the end of the war. “Putin has a lot of demands, but we don’t all know about it, and if there are really as many as we have heard, it will take time to go through all of them,” says Selenskyj. “Under the pressure of weapons, this is impossible, so it is necessary to explain a ceasefire and to quickly work on a final agreement.”
Selenskyj later said that he agreed to the Leyen, who had described a term ceasefire as not superficial. It was important that the war stopped, said by the Leyen.
Selenskyj: Territorial talks with Russia and the USA
Negotiations on peace should start from the front line, said Selenskyj. At the same time, he pointed out that Putin had so far not been able to completely take the Donbass in the war. With a view to the waiver of areas required by Russia, he said that the Ukrainian constitution does not provide for this – nor is it no exchange of land.
At the same time, he called for negotiations at a three -energy with Putin and Trump – and asked for sanctions in the event that the Kremlin boss rejected such a meeting. “Since the territorial question is so important, it should only be discussed by the state leaders of Ukraine and Russia as well as as part of the trilateral discussions between Ukraine, the United States and Russia,” said Selenskyj.
Putin had declared his willingness to meet his Ukrainian colleague, but demands that an agreement between Kiev and Moscow is reached in advance about a solution to the conflict. Russia has been a destructive war against Ukraine for almost three and a half years