The Western capital will be in response to the rapid negotiations taking place without them, as the US and Russia begin talks to end the war in Ukraine, and European leaders will hold an emergency meeting. It is prepared for a potentially decisive week for European security.
Europe’s most powerful leaders will meet in Paris on Monday for crisis talks on the future of Ukraine and Europe’s defense, sparked by Donald Trump’s decision to hold peace talks with Russia. These talks officially begin in Saudi Arabia this week as Trump’s top diplomat Marco Rubio sits with Russia’s Sergei Lavrov.
The Rubio Lavrov Conference shocked the European capital by shocking the Russian capital and launching peace talks less than a week after Trump shocked the Russian capital. He aims to lay the foundation for meeting Vladimir Putin.
Speaking to reporters on Sunday, Trump said that Saudi Arabia President Putin could happen “quickly” about a settlement in Ukraine as the US president expressed confidence that the Russian president wanted to end the conflict. He said he thought a meeting with the group could happen “quickly.”
“I think he wants to stop fighting. Okay. Trump spoke about his conversation with Putin last week, adding that he didn’t want to grab everything about Ukraine.
“He wants to stop. That was my question for him because if he continues, it was a big problem for us. And it’s because you can’t make it happen, so I’m. “It would have caused a big problem with that,” Trump said.
Trump added that Ukrainian President Volodimia Zelenki also wanted to end the war and “involve” in the talks. But Trump said Zelensky’s warning that Russia intends to wage war in NATO countries “a little bit.”
It highlights the lack of input into European negotiations.
“This is the beginning. Finland President Alexander Stubb told the Financial Times: “Has structural plates in Europe changed?”
Referring to the date of the full-scale Russian invasion, he added: “I think the world order began to change on February 24, 2022. And we’re now looking at the direction it might take.”
Leaders such as British Prime Minister Kiel, German Prime Minister Olaf Scholz, Poland Prime Minister Donald Tass, head of EU institutions and NATO flocked to Paris on Monday at the invitation of President Emmanuel Macron.
Joining the heads of the Italian government, Spain, the Netherlands and Denmark, they will discuss specific plans aimed at protecting European defenses regardless of future US involvement, officials say Ukraine. We discussed the best preparations to support and strengthen negotiations.
Yu said it was “a one-time moment for national security involved in the reality of today’s world.”
“It’s insane how fast this is moving,” Western officials explained the discussion. “all [Europe] All you have to do is to make sure Ukraine can say “no” as much as possible. [by the US and Russia]. ”
Trump’s Middle Eastern mission, which secured the release of American Mark Vogel, who visited Moscow last week and was detained, told Fox News he was traveling to Saudi Arabia with national security adviser Mike Waltz on Sunday evening. Ta.
Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Russian state television that Trump’s decision to hold talks “is a powerful signal to resolve issues through dialogue and talk about peace rather than war.” He said.
Ukraine has not been invited to talks with US Russia in Saudi Arabia and has discovered them through the media, said someone close to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. However, the diplomat travels there independently after visiting the United Arab Emirates and Turkey.
“Of course, we understand that Americans have their own problems with Russians. It’s not about our business, but about bilateral relations. But if there’s a story, we’ll be talking about Ukraine and Europe. You need to have [are] About Ukraine and Europe,” the person said.
The main focus of European leaders in Paris is the possibility of European troops’ deployment into Ukraine, stationing behind it rather than the future ceasefire line as a “relief force.” While Germany in particular was cautious about the idea of peacekeeping forces, alternatives may appear before the meeting, one official said.
There is uncertainty about the role the United States plays in its potential to ensure the security of Ukraine’s NATO forces. Trump’s team has ruled out US troops there, but European authorities say they have not ruled out the possibility that the US will provide external support for deployment by NATO allies.
Many European governments are worried about responding to US demands this week about specific details of weapons, money and peacekeeping forces that can be sent after the Ukrainian conflict, according to several officials.
“The general feeling is that this is a good exercise in thinking about what each person can offer, but the response to the US should be collective,” one official said.
Priorities said on Sunday that the UK is “are willing to contribute to security in Ukraine by placing our own troops on the ground when necessary.”
However, the British Prime Minister wrote in the Daily Telegraph that continuing US security assurances are important as “only the US can stop Putin from attacks again.”
Stubb said:
European leaders and diplomats at the Munich Security Conference over the weekend tried to analyse the roles of members of Trump’s negotiation team and how they shape the president’s approach.
A senior European official said there was a “95% agreement” with Keith Kellogg, an 80-year-old retired general appointed to Trump’s Ukrainian mission, who called Russia “the enemy.”
However, the official warned that Kellogg’s opinion, who has not been appointed as a member of Trump’s four-man negotiation team, was not necessarily a chime with Rubio people “who might not see it the same way.”
At a meeting of G7 foreign ministers in Munich, Rubio was not very close in his view of Ukraine, the three explained the discussion. The two said the talks with Lavrov will focus on the logistics and planning of the Putin Trump Conference.
Rubio told CBS on Sunday that Putin’s call with Trump was on track, but “the next few weeks and days will determine whether it’s serious or not.” . . There’s a lot to do.”
Additional reports by Felicia Schwartz of Munich, Leila Abdo of Paris, Lucy Fischer of London, Christopher Miller of Kiev and James Politi of Washington
