On Saturday, leaders of France, Great Britain, Germany and Poland have an unprecedented visit to Ukraine to talk to President Volodymyr Zelensky, swearing to raise pressure on Russia until he agrees to suspend the weapon.
The journey of the French President Emmanuel Macron, the German chancellor Friedrich Merz, the Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk and the prime minister of Great Britain, Keir Starmer, is the primary time the leader of 4 European nations in Ukraine.
Over three years of the Russian invasion, an extremely symbolic demonstration of European unity comes the day after President Vladimir Putin struck a difficult tone during the Moscow parade on the occasion of 80 years from victory during World War II. Ukraine.
US President Donald Trump proposed a 30-day unconditional arms suspension as a step to ending the conflict. But Putin has relied thus far.
“Together with the USA, we call Russia to be agreed to full and unconditional 30-day arms suspension to create a space for conversations about a fair and lasting peace,” the leaders said in an announcement before the visit.
“We are ready to support peace conversations as soon as possible, discuss the technical implementation of the arms suspension and prepare for the full peace agreement,” they added.
“We are clear that bloodshed must end, Russia must stop its illegal invasion, and Ukraine must be able to prosper as a safe, safe and sovereign nation within the international borders recognized on the arena for the upcoming generations.”
They warned: “We will continue to increase our support for Ukraine. As long as Russia agrees to a permanent suspension of weapons, we exert pressure on war Russia.”
For Merz, who took office only this week, this will probably be his first visit to Ukraine as a chancellor. Macron has not been to Kiev since June 2022, when he went with the then Italian and German leaders.
In conversations with Zelensky, they’ll take their “steadfast commitment to Ukraine”, an announcement.
“We, the leaders of France, Germany, Poland and Great Britain, will stand in Kiev, Solidarity with Ukraine against the Russian barbaric and illegal full-scale invasion,” they said.
“We repeat our support for the calls of President Trump about a peace agreement and call Russia to stop making efforts to ensure a lasting room,” they added.
After meeting Zelensky within the morning they’re to lead a virtual meeting to update other European leaders in the sector of movement to create European force, which may ensure Ukraine security after the war.
Such a force “would help regenerate Ukraine’s armed forces after any peace agreement and strengthened confidence in any future peace”, an announcement.
After meeting with Tusk in France, on Friday, Macron called for a fast development of the American-European plan for a 30-day truce, which can be supported by “mass economic sanctions” if one side “reveals it”.
Finland President Alexander Stubb said on Friday at a gathering in Norway to discuss Ukraine that “the United States has two packets of sanctions on the table” and that the countries discussed activities within the “banking and energy sector”.
Macron said that “Putin’s war comments” on the parade on the red Square showed that he remained “on the side of the war.” But he also said that talks in regards to the territory could happen after the weapon suspension began.
Russia occupied about one fifth Ukrainian territory and has not yet reacted to pressure to a everlasting suspension of weapons. Trump also said that Ukraine would have to consider giving up the territory, but expressed the growing impatience due to refusal to stop the fight.
The time of the visit is striking, the approaching day after Putin hosted the Chinese president XI Jinping, but in addition the Prime Minister of Słowacki Robert Fico, whose country is a member of the EU on the Moscow parade.
The French presidential official, who asked for it, said that the visit only 4 days after taking office, “shows the unity, strength and reaction of Europe. And reflects Putin’s celebration.”
But the divisions of Europe were emphasized when the Prime Minister of Slovakia Robert Fico went to Moscow on a military parade on Friday. Ukraine and Hungary, in turn, issued two diplomats from the second embassy in a duel regarding spy allegations.
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