Ukraine said Thursday that there are no conversations planned with Russia at the Munich Security Conference that begins this Friday in that German city, after the US President Donald Trump, talking about a high -level meeting between representatives between representatives from Washington, Moscow and kyiv.
“Right now, there is nothing on the table. There are no conversations planned with the Russians in Munich, ”said Dmitró Litvin, an advisor to the Ukrainian President, Volodimir Zelenski, to the Kyiv Independent newspaper and the Agency Unian.
He stressed that the Ukraine position has not changed, since the country invaded by Russia almost three years ago “must first talk to the United States” and also “Europe must be part of any serious conversation for a genuine and lasting peace.”
“Only a coordinated and unified position must be on the table for conversations with the Russians. We do not meet with the Russians at an empty table, ”he emphasized, according to the Kyiv Independent.
Shortly before, Trump said Friday will take place in Munich a meeting between high -level representatives of the United States, Russia and Ukraine, although he did not give more details.
Russia is not invited to the Munich Security Conference a priori.
“There will be a meeting in Munich. Russia will be there with our people. By the way, Ukraine is also invited. I am not sure who will be there of each country, but there will be high -level people from Russia, Ukraine and the United States, ”Trump said in the Oval Office.
For now it is known that on Friday a meeting between Zelenski and the US Vice President JD Vance, in Munich, which the Secretary of State also accompanies the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, also will take place.
On Wednesday, Trump first talked on the phone with Russian president, Vladimir Putin, and then with Zelenski. Then he announced that the Kremlin chief had agreed to reach an agreement to initiate “immediate negotiations” with the aim of ending the war in Ukraine.
Zelenski said that nobody wants peace more than Ukraine, a message that the US president also released.
That same day, Trump said that Ukraine’s aspiration to be part of NATO is not “practice” and considered “unlikely” that the country manages Annexed Crimea Peninsula.
Zelenski said about the possible territory in an interview this week to the British newspaper The Guardian that his intention is to “exchange one territory for another”, in a possible reference to the Russian region of Kursk, where Ukrainian troops still control about 500 Square kilometers, as the Army Chief, Oleksandr Sirski said Thursday.
Of course, the Ukrainian president added that he does not know what part of the lands occupied by Russia would ask for Ukraine in return.
The Kremlin troops almost fully occupy the eastern region of Lugansk, a good part of Donetsk’s, also in the east, and the provinces of Jersón and Zaporiyia have also been annexed, although only partially controls them.
With EFE information.
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