What Zelenski told Jd Vance at the meeting
Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelenski met in Rome on Sunday with US Vice-President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who again told them that he wants a complete and unconditional fire in the war with Russia, and if the latter refuses the West must impose on the AFP, and the AFP.
‘I reiterated the availability of Ukraine for an authentic diplomacy and emphasized the importance of a complete and unconditional armistice as soon as possible,’ Zelenski wrote on social networks after meeting in the margin of the pontificate of Pope Leon XIV, a discussion to which he was accompanied by his external minister, Ukrainian, Andrii Iermak.
The Ukrainian president insisted on this meeting on ‘the need to impose sanctions on Russia’ and again asked to ‘press on Russia until it is willing to stop the war’. « And, of course, we discussed our common steps towards making a fair and durable peace, » Zelenski added, who is unhappy with how he went to Istanbul first round of peace between Ukraine and Russia after more than three years.
An armistice and a direct meeting between Zelenski and Putin were the main objectives in the mandate of the Ukrainian delegation for these negotiations, but the Russian part only accepted to continue the discussions on these requests of the Ukrainian president. An exchange of a thousand prisoners of war in each camp was the only concrete agreement agreed to these negotiations.
According to Ukrainian officials, Russia has put in Istanbul ‘unacceptable’ conditions to accept an armistice, respectively the withdrawal of Kiev troops from the Ukrainian regions Donetk, Lugansk, Zaporojie and Herson, the recognition of these regions and the Crimea peninsula as part of Russia, the commitment of Ukraine and will not remain a neutral country and will not be a neutral country, rejecting the presence of foreign troops and weapons of mass destruction on the Ukrainian territory.
US President Donald Trump announced on Saturday that he will have a telephone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday, to discuss with him to stop blood in the Ukraine and commercial issues. After this conversation, the leader from the White House added, he will also discuss with the Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelenski and with several leaders in NATO countries.
Four of the latter, respectively German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, French President Emmanuel Macron, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, as well as Zelenski, will have a common discussion with Trump before his talk with Putin, thus aiming to obtain a coordination with the US president with him. Russian president positions shared by Ukraine’s European allies
