Peace be upon the reach of Ukraine due to the ongoing aggression of Russian President Vladimir Putin, the most prominent European defense ministers on Friday, even when the United States advanced talks with Moscow.
Trump’s high government official Steve Witkeov, This Friday was collected with PutinPressing the Russian leader at the beginning of the meeting.
According to a spokesman for the Carmlin, Dmitry Peskov, Putin and Wikkov were scheduled Discuss the status of Ukraine. The meeting ended at 10 pm Moscow time (4 pm GMT), according to Russian government media.
Peskov indicated the meeting as a “good opportunity” to transfer the Russian position to Trump.
A possible meeting between the presidents of Russia and the United States may also be on the agenda, according to the state agency Ria Novosti, who cited Peskov’s remarks.
Peskov said, as TASS said: “Deficient work continues. Of course, and Witakov will attend, as President Trump’s representative, something from his boss to Putin. Putin will hear. The conversation will continue various aspects of the resolution of Ukrainian conflicts,” TASS said.
Witkoff, Trump’s private envoy for Foreign Affairs, also met on Friday with Russian negotiator Kirill Dimic in São PetersburgAccording to Ria Noviti. Dmitiev later described the discussions as “fruitful” in a X.
“Russia is only responsible for this war”
The United States meetings are held in Russia, while Ukraine allies gather on Friday in Brussels.
The defense ministers of the United Kingdom and Germany confirmed that Putin continues their aggression against military and civilian targets, despite the claim that he wants peace.
The defense communication group meeting in Ukraine was organized by the United Kingdom and Germany, with a noticeable absence on the table: US Defense Minister Beit Higseth, who only actually participated.
The group, which consists of about 50 countries, was created by former US Defense Secretary, Lloyd Austin, during the Biden government, and is meeting regularly to discuss strengthening military support for Ukraine.
“Given the ongoing aggression of Russia against Ukraine, we must recognize that peace in Ukraine seems far -reaching in the near future,” German Minister Boris Petsorius said in a press conference shortly after the meeting along with Ukrainian and British ministers.
“We will guarantee that Ukraine will continue to benefit from our joint military support. Russia needs to understand that Ukraine is able to continue fighting, and we will support it,” Petorius added.
Ukrainian President Folodimir Zelinski also made a virtual participation, warning that last month he made it clear that “Russia is the only responsible for this war.”
Evil referred to Putin’s refusal to accept the ceasefire in the United States in March. “Without strength against Russia, there will be no will on the part of Russia to accept and implement any realistic and effective suggestion of peace,” he said.
UK Defense Secretary John Healy also indicated that “it has passed today a month since Russia exactly Refuse the peace agreement President Trump proposed it. “
“Putin said he wanted peace, but he refused to stop fully shooting. Putin said he wanted peace, but he still surrounds negotiations and postponed them. Putin said he wanted peace, but his forces continue to attack Ukraine, both military and civilian targets.”
The meeting on Friday is the first time that a Pentagon employee has not participated in a person since the group was created in 2022, after a few months of the wide range of Ukraine by Russia. This occurs amid a series of changes in the Trump administration policy that has been explained as bringing closer to Moscow.
The meeting was held while Trump’s envoy to Ukraine suggested that Kiev should give up his eastern lands to reach a peace agreement with Moscow – a statement that is likely to cause concern between Western allies and Ukrainian leaders.
General Keith Kelog, a former national security adviser, said that Ukraine can be divided “almost like Berlin after World War II”, in an interview with Britain *The Times *, which was published on Friday.
According to him, the British and French forces can carry control areas in western Ukraine as part of the “warranty force” while the Russian forces will occupy the East. He added that Kyiv’s forces will be placed in the middle area, along with an unknown area.
In a publication on Ride X, Kellogg later stated that it was referring to “the potential responsibility areas for the strength of the Allied”, not to the Ukraine section, and confirms that the idea did not expect the American forces on the Ukrainian soil.
Witkoff, another Trump’s great adviser, defended the opinion that Ukraine would need to abandon the four regions – Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizehzia, and Kheson – in order to end the war, indicating an impressive change in politics compared to the previous administration.
“The issue of priorities”
Boris Petsorius, the Minister of Defense in Germany, said before meeting in Brussels that the decision to actually participate is the Trump administration and that his “account” was not commenting on the signal that this transmits.
“It is not a matter of priority. I think it is a matter of agenda,” Petralius added.
Before the meeting, the British Minister of Defense presented fixed words to support Ukraine and defended “more pressure on Putin.”
“Our mission is to put Ukraine as strong as possible to protect their sovereignty and raise Russian attacks in the future,” Healy said in a statement.
Healy announced that the new promises of military aid announced after Friday’s meeting exceeding 21 billion euros (about 23.8 billion dollars), and called on the value of “record reinforcement in military financing for Ukraine.”
Germany will provide 11 billion euros (12.5 billion dollars) as military support for Ukraine by 2029, including IRIS-T and Patriot missiles, according to the Ukrainian Minister of Defense, speaking directly from Brussels.
The United Kingdom and Norway will also bring between an additional $ 589 million of military aid, to maintain vehicles, radar systems, anti -fungal mines and hundreds of thousands of drones.
Zelinski said before the meeting that the air defense was the priority of Kyiv.
“We just need to solve a lack of air defense systems to make our sky protection stronger,” said Zellinski.
“Our assistant partners can also accelerate the implementation of all the previously signed agreements. The national missiles that are still not used in our partners’ deposits must be protecting lives.”
Zelinski said earlier this week that Russia was “preparing” a new attack, while CNN I mentioned that the Russian army Its operations are intensified Along the confrontation line in recent weeks.
Ukraine, head of the Ukrainian armed forces, Olksander Serski, told the Ukrainian media on Thursday that Russia had “already” began its new attack against the Sumi and Carkif regions.
Meanwhile, a new United Nations report revealed this week that Ukraine recorded a significant increase in civil losses caused by Russian attacks in March.
The number of civilian victims was 50 % higher than the previous month, as at least 164 people and 910 injuries were killed in March, according to the mission of the United Nations human rights monitoring in Ukraine.