Zelensky and Trump met – Liberation
Two months later Their terrible meeting in the White House, Will Ukrainian and American presidents reappear in public together? Volodymyr Zelensky, finally arrived in Rome on Saturday after having left a suspense over his presence, met his counterpart Donald Trump for the pope’s funeral on Saturday April 26.
The two men have enough to discuss. The past week has seen them respond to the media interposed on the conditions of a possible ceasefire between Ukraine and Russia. The latest news is a positive signal. Donald Trump assured in the night that the two countries were « Very close to an agreement », His Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin evoking, after a new visit by Steve Witkoff, The American interlocutor favored from the Kremlin, there « possibility » of « Direct negotiations » Between Moscow and Kyiv.
« This discussion made it possible to bring the positions of Russia and the United States not only to Ukraine but also on several other international questions »commented Vladimir Putin’s diplomatic advisor, Iouri Ouchakov.
The interview given at the same time by Donald Trump at Time actually served as a bound, the American president saying that Ukraine should make a cross on Crimea, Ukrainian peninsula annexed by Russia in 2014. “Russia will keep Crimea. And Zelensky understands that ”, thus hammered the American president,, which has taken up the elements of Russian language according to which « What made war begin is when they (Ukrainians, editor’s note) started talking about joining NATO. ”
Despite these pressures, and even if The mayor of Kyiv opened the door to exchange « temporary » From territories between Ukraine and Russia, Volodymyr Zelensky reaffirmed on Friday evening that Crimea belonged well to Kyiv. « Our position remains unchanged (…) All temporarily occupied territories belong to Ukraine »the head of state told journalists.
Update at 10:06 a.m. With the meeting between the two presidents.
