Ukraine is working to arrange a meeting between Volodimir Zelensky and US President Donald Trump, the Ukrainian president said Tuesday, after delivering a speech calling on European leaders to do more to defend the continent.
“The teams have been working on a meeting, they are currently in the process,” Volodimir Zelensky said of efforts to arrange a meeting with Donald Trump. He was speaking in an interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
Donald Trump, who took office Monday, has said in the past that he would quickly end the war in Ukraine, without specifying how.
Volodimir Zelensky said Ukraine would not accept Russia’s demands to radically reduce the size of its army, predicting that Russian President Vladimir Putin would demand that Ukraine reduce its army to a fifth of its size.
“This is what he wants. We will not allow this to happen,” Volodimir Zelensky said.
In his speech, the Ukrainian president said that Europe must become a strong global actor, capable of guaranteeing peace and security for itself and others.
-He suggested that Europe had less influence over Washington because the United States considered its allies’ security contribution insufficient.
“Does anyone in the United States fear that Europe will one day abandon them, that it will cease to be their ally? The answer is no,” Volodimir Zelensky said.
(Written by Alessandra Galloni, Tom Balmforth and Yuliia Dysa; French version Mara Vîlcu, edited by Blandine Hénault)
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