“Only the European Union and the US together can stop Putin”

The Ukrainian president himself has traveled to Brussels to demand “security guarantees” to the Europeans. Zelensky participated this Wednesday in a restricted dinner called by Rutte with the leaders of Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Denmark and the foreign ministers of the United Kingdom and France. The president of the Commission also attended, Ursula von der Leyenand the new head of the European Council, Antonio Costa. The president of the Government did not participate in the mini-summit on the future of Ukraine, Pedro Sanchez.

Zelensky has also attended the meeting of the heads of state and government of the 27 that is being held this Thursday in Brussels, the last of the year. Apart from demanding more military support to protect energy infrastructure and support for the school network, the president of Ukraine has asked “unity” between the EU and the US in order to “achieve peace”: admits that his country will not be able to resist if Trump withdraws aid, as he has threatened during the campaign.

“From the beginning of next year, we very much need unity between the United States and the European Union and the countries of Europe. It is very important. We need this unity to achieve peace. I really believe that Only together the United States and the European Union can stop Putin and save Ukraine“Zelensky said this Thursday in a brief joint appearance with Costa.

If Trump cuts aid, can Europe support Ukraine alone? “We must rely on unity between the US and Europe. It is very difficult to support Ukraine without American help and that is what we will discuss with President Trump when he is in the White House,” the Ukrainian president responded.

The new American president maintains his refusal to Joe Biden for kyiv to join NATO and that is why would have asked the EU to send peacekeepers to Ukraine to supervise a ceasefire. A possibility that has generated a debate that has spread like wildfire throughout European capitals. This issue was addressed by Zelensky himself in a bilateral meeting on Wednesday in Brussels with Emmanuel Macron, who later left to attend to the disaster in Mayotte.

“We share a common vision: for peace to truly be achieved, it is essential to have reliable guarantees. We continue to work on President Macron’s initiative regarding the presence of forces in Ukraine that can contribute to stabilizing the path to peace“, the Ukrainian president wrote on his social network account X.

“You can count on our full and unwavering support, whatever it takes and for as long as it takes, now in war and in the future in peace“Costa assured the president of Ukraine.

The growing emphasis on peace negotiations that is detected in all the conversations in Brussels has caught the successor of Josep Borrell at the head of European diplomacy, Kaja Kallaswho during her term as Prime Minister of Estonia became the greatest exponent of the hard line towards the Kremlin.

“We have to talk about how to support Ukraine more. Any push to negotiate too soon would be a bad deal for Ukraine. All other actors in the world are watching carefully how we act in this case and we must be strong. “Syria shows that Russia is not invincible and we should not underestimate our own power,” Kallas maintains.