After a heated meeting at the White House that did not result in an agreement, the president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, indicated that his country is willing to work with the US to achieve a pact on rare minerals and thus save bilateral relations.
The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said on Sunday that his country is still willing to sign an agreement on rare earth minerals with the United States and that he believes that relations with US President Donald Trump can save.
Speaking to journalists after a meeting of European leaders in Great Britain, Zelenskyy said that he believes that the United States will also be willing to sign the mineral agreement, but that it could “need time to analyze some things.”
It was expected that the two parties signed an agreement last week during a Zelenskyy visit to the White House, but the agreement collapsed after heated verbal exchanges during a meeting with Trump and the American vice president JD Vance.
Zelenskyy said on Sunday that Ukraine has the help of the United States in his fight against Russian invasion that lasts three years.
“I think stopping that assistance will only help Russian President Vladimir) Putin,” said Zelenskyy. “And that is why, I believe that the United States and the representatives of the civilized world, the leaders of this world, will definitely not help Putin.”
Trump described Zelenskyy of ungrateful during his Friday meeting and has sought the agreement on minerals as a way to reimburse the United States billions of dollars to aid that has provided Ukraine.
Trump has promoted the need to end war and has maintained a phone call with Putin, in addition to meetings of senior US officials with Russian officials in Saudi Arabia to discuss a possible peace agreement without the participation of Ukrainian officials.
“We should spend less time worrying about Putin and more time worrying about the bands of immigrant rapists, drug lords, murderers and people of mental institutions that enter our country, so that we do not end like Europe!” Trump published on Sunday on his social truth platform.
That followed Sunday's conversations in London during which British Prime Minister Keir Starmer told 18 allies that with the US. Uu. Hesimating in his support for Ukraine, Europe is “at a crossroads in history.”
“This is not a time for more conversations, it's time to act. It's time to step forward, lead and unite around a new plan for just and lasting peace,” said Starmer.
The British leader said that without guarantees of US participation. He said there was a “coalition of the willing” ready to help defend any truce.
Meanwhile, Trump's national security advisor Michael Waltz, talking about Zelenskyy, said on Sunday in the “State of the Union” program of CNN: “What was not clear to us was if he shared our goal of putting an end to this war. It was not clear if he was ready to go to peace.”
Unlike what happened in Washington, Zelensky was warmly received at the summit by many of the European heads of state, along with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the head of the NATO Mark Rutte. Zelensky's supporters gathered in front of the Starmer residence in support of Ukraine.
While the leaders gathered on Sunday, the head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, warned: “We have to urgently rear to Europe” and “prepare for the worst” in the continent.
The Polish Prime Minister, Donald Tusk, asked the United States and Europe to “speak with one voice” to demonstrate the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, “that the West has no intention of capitulating before his blackmail and aggression.”
In addition to attending the Security Summit, Zelensky met with King Carlos on his Sandringham farm in England.
Starmer, when he first greeted Zelensky on Saturday, announced a loan agreement of 2,840 million dollars to support Ukraine defense capabilities, which will be reimbursed with the profits of the immobilized Russian sovereign assets.
The Kremlin said in statements issued on Sunday that the dramatic change in US foreign policy in Europe is largely aligned with Moscow's vision.
“The new administration is quickly changing all foreign policy configurations. This largely coincides with our vision,” said Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, in an interview with Russian state television that was recorded last Wednesday.
There are no programmed peace negotiations.
Trump's national security advisor Waltz said that eventually Russia and Ukraine will have to make concessions in negotiations to reach a peace agreement. “There will be all kinds of carrots and sticks to achieve it,” he said.
The United States Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, also highlighted the importance of both parties to feel at the negotiating table.
“We are trying to end a war,” Rubio said. “You cannot put an end to a war unless both parties feel at the table, starting with the Russians. And that is the point that the president has raised.”
“I am not promising to be possible,” he added. “I am not telling you to be 90 % likely. I am saying that it is 0 % likely if we do not take them to a negotiating table. And as soon as possible here they grow and realize that this is a bad war that goes in a bad direction with death and destruction and all kinds of hazards around them that could lead to a broader conflict, the sooner people grow up and realize that, I think that more progress we will be able to do. ”
Starmer said Great Britain, France and Ukraine agreed to work in a high -fire plan to present it to the United States. Some European countries have said that they are willing to send peace troops to Ukraine to help enforce a possible peace agreement, but they need the United States to provide military support to face Russia in case Putin accepts a high fire and then violates it or sets a new invasion.
Trump has refused to send that American support and has said that he is confident that Putin will respect any agreement he accepts to resolve the war.
Starmer said he doesn't trust Putin, but in Trump.
“I believe in Donald Trump when he says he wants a lasting peace? The answer is yes, ”he said.
Starmer said there are “intense discussions” to obtain a United States security guarantee as one of the various components for lasting peace.
“Do I believe Donald Trump when he says he wants a lasting peace? The answer is yes, ”he said.
Starmer said there are “intense discussions” to obtain a United States security guarantee as one of the various components for lasting peace.
“If an agreement is reached, if the fight is going to stop, then that agreement must be defended, because the worst of the results is that there is a temporary pause and then Putin returns,” said Starmer. “That has happened in the past, I think it is a real risk, and that is why we must ensure that if there is an agreement, it is a lasting agreement, not a temporary pause.”
(With information Dethe Associated Press, Agency France-Pressse and Reuters)