Zelensky heads to Washington under US pressure for quick Ukraine war settlement

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Ukrainian President Wolodimier Zelannsky turns to Washington on Monday, with US pressure to accept immediate settlement for war with Russia, but he plans to protect Kiev’s interests by avoiding another Oval Office confrontation with Donald Trump.

At a summit in Alaska, the US president invited Zilnsky to Washington after rolling a red carpet for Kiev’s Arc Fu, Vladimir Putin, which surprised many people in Ukraine, where hundreds of thousands were killed after Russia’s 2022 attacks.

Alaska’s dialogue failed to create the ceasefire that Trump tried, and the US leader said on Saturday that he now wants a fast, complete peace deal and should accept Kiev because “Russia is a great power, and they are not”.

After returning to Washington for the first time after talking to Trump at the Oval Office in February, two statements put Zilnsky in a dangerous position.

The US president encouraged him to the World Media at the time, saying that Zillsky did not “put cards” in the talks, and that what he described as Kiev’s intervention was the danger of mobilizing World War II.

The acquisition of Trump’s immediate deal has been refused by European allies and Ukraine to agree that instead of agreeing to a settlement, instead, instead of agreeing to a settlement, should be made a ceasefire instead.

A source familiar with the matter told Reuters that European leaders were also invited to the meeting between Trump and Zilnski on Monday, though it was unclear who would attend.

The Ukrainian leader said that Trump briefed Zilnski about his conversation with Putin during a call on Saturday, which lasted for more than an hour and a half. European and NATO officials joined them after an hour, he added.

“The impression is that he wants a speeding contract at any cost,” sources familiar with the conversation said.

Sources said that Trump told Zillski that Putin had offered to freeze the front lines as part of an agreement, if Ukraine withdrew its army completely from East Donetsk and Lohansk areas, some Zilinski said.

Trump and the US envoy Steve Watticov told the Ukrainian leader that Putin had said that there could be no ceasefire before, and that the Russian leader could promise not to launch a new aggression against Ukraine as part of an agreement.

Kiev has publicly rejected the idea of withdrawing from internationally recognized Ukrainian land as part of an agreement, and says the industrial Donetsk region acts as a fortress that helps Russian progress in Ukraine.

Ukraine’s Foreign Affairs Committee, the head of the Ukrainian Parliament, told Reuters by phone that instead of emphasizing an agreement with Trump, it poses a serious threat to Ukraine.

“In Putin’s view, the peace deal means many dangerous things – Ukraine is not joining NATO, the Russian language and Russian church for their undeniable demands and corruption,” he said.

Maryzco said any such agreement could be politically explosive inside Ukraine, adding that he feared that Putin’s corruption in the West had ended.

Security guarantees

Avoiding the row of the elliptical office is important for Zilnsky to maintain relations with the United States, which still provides military support and is a key source of intelligence on Russia’s military activity.

For Ukraine, strong guarantees are fundamental to any serious settlement to prevent any Russian invasion in the future.

Two sources familiar with the matter said that Trump and European leaders discussed possible security guarantees for Ukraine, which is like a translatant NATO alliance commitment during their call. It says, in fact, an attack on someone is considered an attack.

One of the two sources, who requested not to disclose his name to discuss sensitive issues, said the European leader was seeking details about what the American role was considered.

Zillski has repeatedly said that a trilateral meeting with Russian and US leaders is very important to find a way to end the full -scale war on Russia in February 2022.

This week, Trump called the idea of such a meeting, saying that if his talks with Putin were successful in Alaska, this could happen.

“Ukraine emphasizes that important issues can be discussed at the level of leaders, and that a trilateral form is appropriate, Zilnsky wrote on social media on Saturday.” Putin’s Assistant Yuri Ishtakov told Russian State News Agency TASS that a three -way summit in Alaska was not discussed.