KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Saturday dismissed the planned summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, warning that any peace deal excluding Kyiv would lead to “dead solutions.”
The Trump-Putin meeting, scheduled for Friday in Alaska, is seen as a potential breakthrough in the more than three-year war.
Trump had previously agreed to meet with Putin even if the Russian leader would not meet with Zelenskyy, stoking fears Ukraine could be sidelined in efforts to stop Europe’s biggest conflict since World War II.
In a statement posted to Telegram, Zelenskyy said Ukraine’s territorial integrity, enshrined in the constitution, must be nonnegotiable, and emphasized that lasting peace must include Ukraine’s voice at the table.
Realistically, Ukraine only really wants security guarantees. That is THE deal. They would be willing to ceed Crimea and dombas. I think. I mean maybe not, I don’t have any special insight. But like Donbas, it’s not a place people in other parts of Ukraine would be willing to die for in masses (I think).
The main thing is security guarantees and I think it’s PRO how they are running their diplomacy.
I think if they were offered NATO, they would ceed a lot for that.
But… That’s exactly what Russians don’t want. They want influence. They want direct influence that would show they are a real super power. Which by now, everybody sees they are not, but grasping for straws… influence over demilitarized Ukraine would kind of show they are a super power. Not really, but a bit for their own population.
However, there is no way in hell they can get that. Because even now Ukraine is too strong for them to take any city of significance. Even if US stops sending weapons altogether.
So… The peace… We aren’t close, unless Putin can convince people internally that they won , when they don’t… but, then he has to worry all about the postwar economy which would be described in several rude words.
It’s a truly bad situation.
Ukraine already had security promises from the US, UK, France, and China.
It didn’t help them in 2014, and now the US is trying to help Russia again.
I doubt Ukraine will accept any security promise short of being an official member of NATO
NATO is not a realistic option.
I think they would accept EU with EU military forces at the new border.
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It also bears mentioning that Putin has an established precedent of just… you know… ignoring guarantees and deals of that nature. For instance: the Budapest Memorandum, of which they were one of the primary signatories.
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Ukraine only really wants security guarantees.
Russia provided a security guarantee when Ukraine gave up its nuclear weapons - see how well that went?
Yes, that was worthless. NATO or EU military forces on the border would be a different cookie.
For future reference, it’s cede not ceed.
Gracias.
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Its not about land, it’s about security guarantees. Ukraine doesn’t really need the lands in question and Russia don’t really want it. Ukraine wins with security guarantees and Russia won’t allow it, because that means they are not a super power and cannot project power not even to a neighboring country.
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Yes, security guarantees such as something similar to NATO or US and EU forces at the border. That is a security guarantee. Nothing else would do. That’s obvious.
Ukraine would give land for that. The point is, Russia doesn’t want or need the land. They want to project power, not gain 0.05% to the territory they already have.