President Volodymyr Zelenky said in an excerpt from an interview of NBC published on Friday evening that Ukraine had a low chance of survival of Russian attack without US support.
In an excerpt from ‘Meet the printing with Kristen Welker“Mr. Zelena said,” It will probably be very, very, very difficult. And of course, in all difficult situations you have a chance. However, we will have a low chance – a low chance to survive without the support of the United States. ”
According to NBC, the whole interview will be broadcast on Sunday.
His comments were broadcast on the first day of conference on the security of Munich, where hundreds of anxious European diplomats and other He gathered the expectations that the vice -president JD heard Vance to talk about President Trump’s strategy to mediate peace negotiations with Russia to end the war in Ukraine.
Mr. Vance, however, mentioned only at Ukraine during the passage and did not offer any travel map for negotiations or any strategic vision of what Europe should look like after the most destructive ground war, which has been held on the continent in 80 years. Instead urged the European nations To stop isolating their far -right parties and say that the greatest security threat was to suppress freedom of expression.
At the beginning of the week Pete Hegset, Minister of Defense Mr. Trump, shake Kiev and European allies of Ukraine by not supporting the desire of Ukraine within and in part and peace plan at a meeting with NATO ministers and Ukrainian defense ministers. Before 2014, he also described the return to the borders of Ukraine – when Russia attached Crimea – as “unrealistic”.
Mr. Trump repeatedly Suggested Trading with American Aids for Ukrainian Critical Mineralssays Fox News At the beginning of this month he wanted “equivalent of rare countries worth $ 500 billion”, a group of minerals essential for many high-tech products in exchange for American assistance. Ukraine “basically agreed to it,” he said.
In Munich, the Ukrainian President came to sit on Friday through the table by Mr. Vance, Foreign Minister Marco Rubio and Keith Kellogg, retired General, who is Trump’s ambassador for Ukraine and Russia.
Mr. Zelena asked for “security warranties”. Mr. Vance emphasized the importance of initial conversations about the end of the war in Ukraine, but refused to discuss specifics, he said to maintain the possibilities of negotiators.
“In principle, the goal, as President Trump outlined, we want the war to end, we want the killing to stop,” Mr. Vance said. “But we want to achieve a durable, permanent peace.”
Later Mr. Zelenky expressed thank you for American support, but he said that it was necessary to do a lot of work to “prepare a plan to stop Putin”.
In the post on the social media, he said, “We dealt with many key questions and look forward to welcoming General Kellogg to Ukraine for the next meeting and a deeper assessment of the situation on the spot.”
The report contributed Ye Tankersley, David E. Sanger, Steven Erlanger and Maria Varenikova.
