KYIV (Reuters) – US President Donald Trump could make his promise to end the war in Ukraine but only if he includes Kyiv in the negotiations, President Volodimir Zelensky said on Saturday.
Volodimir Zelensky also said that the terms of any agreement that could be concluded under the aegis of Donald Trump were not yet clear – and could not even be for the American president himself – because the Russian president Vladimir Putin has no interest in ending the conflict.
Donald Trump, who took office on Monday, promised during his electoral campaign to end the war during his first 24 hours in the White House, without specifying how. His collaborators have since suggested that an agreement could take months.
The end of the war will only be possible if Donald Trump includes Ukraine herself in the negotiations, said Volodimir Zelensky to the press during a visit to the president of Moldova, Maia Sandhu.
“Otherwise, it will not work. Because Russia does not want to end war, while Ukraine wants to end it,” he said.
In another interview broadcast later on Saturday, Volodimir Zelensky said that he thought Donald Trump really wanted to end the war, which has been going on for almost three years.
-“For the moment, we do not know how it will happen because we do not know the details,” he told Italian journalist Cecilia Sala, released this month after being detained for 21 days in Iran.
“I think that President Trump himself does not know all the details. Because I would say that many things depend on the type of just peace that we can achieve. And if Putin wants, in principle, to stop war. I believe I believe. that he does not want it. “
“Regarding the organization of talks, I hope that Ukraine will be present: I really hope that Ukraine will be present, (with) America, Europe and the Russians,” also declared Volodimir Zelensky.
(Report from Max Hunder to Kyiv, with Alexander Tanas in Chisinau, French version Benjamin Mallet)
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