As the most fatal war in Europe since World War II is enraged in Ukraine, the president of the country, Volodymyr Zelenskyy and other European leaders are alarmed and dismayed by being excluded from the conversations. One of kyiv’s main concerns was that Russia would be approved to keep 20% of the country he has occupied.
“Ukraine knew nothing about it,” Zelenskyy warned before the meeting.
kyiv “refers to any negotiation on Ukraine without Ukraine such as those who have no result, and we cannot recognize … Any agreement on us without us,” he said, added that he planned to travel to Saudi Arabia on Wednesday for a trip had had A trip. It has been organized in advance and was not related to conversations between the United States and Russia.
Danish prime minister, Mette Frederiksen, warned that Russia could use the pause to reassure and set up a new attack against Ukraine or attack other countries in Europe.
“Russia is threatening all of Europe now, unfortunately,” Frederiksen said, reflecting the vision of many in Europe that Putin would seek to dominate, if not completely occupy, more countries.
In Kherson, A port city in southern Ukraine that has been under a strong Russian bombing throughout the war, residents balanced their hopes for the end of the fighting With fears about Trump’s decision to leave Kyiv out of the negotiations.
“It’s confusing. He goes quickly and we don’t see where he is going,” said Yulia Ishuk, who worked at a restaurant in the port city of Odesa before the war and now directs a rehabilitation center for soldiers, he told a news team from news from NBC on the ground.
“Without our president, Zelenskyy … is a type of game similar to our backs and we don’t like it because we don’t understand that,” said Ishuk, 47. “We don’t understand what is happening.”
As the negotiators had discussions in Riyad, Washington’s special envoy for Ukraine and Russia, Keith Kellogg, was in Brussels on Tuesday, where he met with the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, before a trip To Ukraine.
During his informative session at Abu Dhabi, Zelenskyy said he wanted to take Kellogg “in front” and make him meet with intelligence officials and diplomats to be able to “bring more information to the United States.”
