Ukrainian President Folodimir Zelinski said his conversation with US President Donald Trump in the Vatican last month was the “best” so far. The two leaders discussed US sanctions and air defenses for Kev.
The brief meeting on the sidelines A funeral to do Baba Francisco, In April, it happened in a decisive time for Ukraine amid fears that the United States could reduce support for Kiev negotiations and abandon peace negotiations.
Both parties describe negotiations as positiveA mark on the first face to the front of the interface A catastrophic meeting in the Oval HallIn February. Soon after, Trump asked whether Russian President Vladimir Putin wanted peace, the last sign that the American leader loses his patience with his Russian homogeneous.
“I think we have the best conversation with President Trump from all those who have already happened,” Zellinski told reporters on Friday (2), in comments issued on Saturday (3) by Ukraine Presidential Office.
“Perhaps this was the shortest, but it was the most important,” he said.
Zelinski said that the duo discussed US sanctionsWithout giving more details, describing Trump’s comments on this topic as “very strong”. He added that he had repeated his desire to strengthen air defenses in Ukraine and told Trump that he was expected to have the opportunity to buy American weapons.
“I told him about the quantity, and he told me that they would work on it, and that these things are not free,” Zelinski said.
He added that Trump agreed that a 30 days of ceasefire “It is the first correct step” that “we will take in this direction.”
Wednesday (30), Washington and Kiev signed a decisive agreement on minerals – An agreement that both sides have been trying to close since Trump’s return to the White House in January.
In his comments on Friday (2), Zellinski referred to the meeting in Vatican As a shift point for an agreement, adding that it managed to dispel Russian allegations that Ukraine will not be ready to reach an agreement with the United States. “I am sure that after our meeting in the Vatican, President Trump began to see things a little different,” he said.
According to the agreement, the United States and Ukraine will create a joint investment fund, according to Ukraine Secretary Yulia Sfridinko. Sfiridinko said the United States will be able to contribute to new military aid in this fund.
Zelinski also criticized the three -day ceasefire to Putin at the end of last month, which, according to the Russian leader, will continue from midnight from 8 May to midnight on May 11, saying that he was ready to sign a longer rest period.
In his night speech on Saturday (3), Zelinski said: “We are ready as soon as possible, to this day, to move towards the ceasefire if Russia is ready for measures similar to complete silence, for at least 30 days. This is a fair time so that the following steps can be prepared. Russia must stop the war The attacks stopped, and the bombing stopped. “
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said The ceasefire for three days was proposed by Russia It was a test of Ukraine’s “readiness” to search for peace, as he asked Kiev data that is unambiguous and final.
The proposed ceasefire dates coincide with the Russian Day celebrations in World War II, on May 9, and the eighty anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany.
Some international leaders, including Xi Jinping from China and Alexander Lukashenko from Belarus, will meet in Moscow on this date to celebrate the victory day of Russia in honor of more than 25 million Soviet soldiers and civilians who died during World War II.
Zelinski said that Kiev will not “play games to create an interesting atmosphere that allows Putin to get out of isolation on May 9.”
In a letter to the figures who traveled to Russia on May 9, the Ukrainian leader warned that Kiev “could not be responsible for what is happening in the lands of the Russian Federation” due to the ongoing conflict.
In response, the Russian Foreign Ministry said his comments are equivalent to a threat.