Ukraine: American, European, Russians and Ukrainians gather in London to discuss conflicts

Americans, Ukrainians and Europeans gather on Wednesday (23) in London for a new tour of negotiations to try to find a solution to the conflict in Ukraine, where Russian air attacks resumed after a brief Easter respite.

Americans, Ukrainians and Europeans gather on Wednesday (23) in London for a new tour of negotiations to try to find a solution to the conflict in Ukraine, where Russian air attacks resumed after a brief Easter respite.

Nine people died in an attack on Russian drones on a bus to Marganets in the South -est of Ukraine, the governor of the Dnipropetrovsk region announced on Wednesday. During the night, the fires were recorded in different Ukrainian regions due to Russian attacks.

London discussions follow those to be held last week in Paris.

“The conversations remain quickly,” said British Foreign Minister David Lammy on Rede X (ex Twitter) Tuesday evening after a “productive” connection with the American secretary of state Marco Rubio. “This is a crucial moment for Ukraine, the safety of the United Kingdom and the Euro-Atlantic,” added Lammy.

Rubio will not be present at the meeting. His journey has never been officially confirmed, but as he said last week in Paris that he would go to London if he thought it was necessary, his absence indicates that he renounced the journey for lack of progress in negotiations.

Kiev will be represented by the head of the presidential administration, Andriï Irmak, the head of diplomacy, Andriï Sybiga and the Minister of Defense, Roustem Oumorov, according to the Ukrainian press.

On the American side, the special correspondent for Ukraine, General Keith Kellogg, will participate in the discussions. France will be represented by Emmanuel Bonne, diplomatic consultant of President Emmanuel Macron.

An agreement of “This week”

Tuesday, the Kremlin warned against any precipitation in discussions in search of ceased fire after more than three years of Russian invasion.

The American president Donald Trump, who wants to end quickly with a war that qualifies “terrible and foolish”, said on Sunday that an agreement “this week” between Moscow and Kiev said, without revealing the details of this hypothetical proposal.

In the meantime, the American correspondent Steve Witkoff plans a trip to Moscow at the end of this week, said the White House and the Kremlin without specifying the date.

Second Financial timesRussian President Vladimir Putin proposed Witkoff in early April to interrupt the invasion and maintain the current first line in the event that the United States satisfy the main requests for Moscow, such as the recognition of Russia’s sovereignty for the Crimea peninsula, connected in 2014 and the guarantee that Ukraine does not adhere to NATO.

“At this moment a lot of false information is released,” reacted the spokesman for the Kremlin Dmitri Peskov, cited by the new news agency.

Kiev and his European allies ask for the full return of Ukraine to his borders before 2014 – a position that the American defense minister Pete Hegseth classified in February as an “unrealistic”.

Washington currently leads separate negotiations with Kiev and Moscow. The Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Tuesday that his country is willing to dialogue directly with Russia after the entry into force of a ceased fire. Vladimir Putin had mentioned the day before, the possible recovery of these conversations.

Zelensky also declared that “I would like to” meet Donald Trump on Saturday in the Vatican, where both will be present for the funeral of Pope Francis.

“Marketing operation”

Last week, the leaders of Ukrainian diplomacy, the United States, France, the United Kingdom and a high German consultant gathered in Paris, an unprecedented meeting in this format to try to move together, in the middle of the impasse in a ceased the fire, led by Washington and the attempt of the Europeans to strengthen their position.

Marco Rubio said he had presented the Washington plan to end the war, but the meeting did not entail any important progress.

The Trump administration has not publicly revealed the details of this plan, but according to the American media, which cites anonymous sources, would include a sort of recognition of Russian control over the Crimea, attached in 2014.

At the end of the conversations in Paris, the head of the United States diplomacy threatened to remove the United States from negotiations if it has ended that peace is not possible “.

The head of European diplomacy Kaja Kallas said Tuesday that the United States has not yet used “all tools” at his disposal to press Russia.

The Easter truce, decreed by Moscow, but did not lead to the cessation of hostilities in Ukraine, was a “marketing operation” designed to “prevent President Trump from losing patience”, said French Foreign Minister, Jean-Noël Bartot on Tuesday.

(With AFP)

Source: Terra

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