The memory of a sharp, February clash in the oval office when Trump and vice president of JD Vance pointed out to Zelanski's lack of “gratitude”additionally exacerbates the rate of this year's conversations. In the European delegation there are leaders perceived as a good relationship with Trump, including Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Melons and President of Finland Alexander Stubb.
According to CNBC, it is said in Brussels: The goal is to support Zelanski and bring to the full -full position with Washington as possible. According to one of the high -ranking Union diplomats, the minimum plan is three elements:
- Reliable safety guarantees for Ukraine
- Real stopping of killing people
- Opening the road to Tripartite Talking Format
Safety guarantees
In the script in which the war ends, and NATO membership remains beyond the reach of Kiev, Ukrainians demand hard post -war security.
In the conversations, a comparison to Article 5 of the Washington Treaty – not identical membership, but the repellent mechanism that would discourage Moscow from another aggression and gave the West tools of reaction. American and European interlocutors They suggest that the Kremlin allows some form of such guarantees, although in practice their shape remains unexplained.
There are also analyzes that they could allow the presence of Western forces in Ukraine, although not NATO, with a clearly defined mandate of response to a fracture of a truce. For Europeans, without a reliable shield, every truce would be only a pause before the next escalation.
Keep the bloodshed
Moscow signals readiness to freeze the front in the south and demands the withdrawal of Ukraine from a part of Donbass. For Kiev, this is an unacceptable condition – Donating territories would mean, as Zelanski emphasizes, a trampoline to the next offensive of Russia.
The European Union holds a pressure course. As long as the blood transfer is underway, the diplomatic and economic line against the Kremlin will be maintained, along with the work on the next, nineteenth, the package of sanctions planned for early September.
In Washington, European leaders will strive so that the White House does not loosen the screw and that An possible conversation about stopping the fighting was not at the expense of security and territorial integrity of Ukraine.
Trump, Putin and Zełnski at one table?
The third element of the European agenda is the political opening of the door to conversations in Trump -Putin -Zełenski format. Trump previously signaled readiness to such a peak, but after meeting in Alaska, he did not return to the topic in public.
For Europe, the support of the White House for a meeting with Kiev – and not above his head – would be a signal that the negotiations will not become a stronger dictate. At the same time, EU leaders They emphasize the principle that only Ukraine can decide about its fate and borders, and diplomacy only makes sense if it really reduces the risk of further aggression.
In practice, the success of this mission will look modest, but specifically. A agreed sketch of security architecture, which scares off Moscow and does not blur the role of the West, as well as the political path to stop fighting without the capitulation of Kiev and a controlled, three -sided dynamics of conversations, in which Europe and the USA play to one goal – says CNBC.
The next hours in Washington will show whether European leaders will manage to persuade Trump to just understood “real settlement”. Hard to the aggressor and honest towards the victim.
