MADRID Dec. 8 () –
The president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, insisted this Sunday to the president-elect of the United States, Donald Trump, that any ceasefire negotiations with Russia must invariably be accompanied by “peace guarantees” by declaring himself convinced that Moscow is prone to breach any promise he might make in this regard.
“The reality of this war is that it cannot end simply with a piece of paper and a few signatures,” Zelensky said in a summary of the brief trilateral summit he held yesterday in Paris with Trump and the president of France, Emmanuel Macron. .
If yesterday he tried to explain to Trump, a skeptic of the delivery of military aid to kyiv, that it is still possible to “achieve peace by force” in Ukraine, Zelensky has stressed today that “a ceasefire without guarantees implies that (the conflict) could break out again at any time, as Putin has done on other occasions,” referring to the Russian president.
Zelensky has given as examples the current political crisis in Georgia, which the Ukrainian president described as an attempt by Moscow to “subjugate the population” – Russia has denied any connection with the wave of opposition protests that is shaking the country – or Moldova, where “Russia still does not want to loosen its grip.”
Thus, and to ensure that “Ukraine does not continue to lose lives” after this hypothetical ceasefire, Zelensky asks that any agreement in this regard “guarantee the reliability of peace and not turn a blind eye to the Russian occupation.”
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