President Volodymyr Zelensky said in an extract from an interview with NBC published on Friday evening that Ukraine was in a little chance of surviving Russia’s assault without American support.
In the extract of “Meet the press with Kristen Welker“Said Mr. Zelensky:” It will probably be very, very, very difficult. And of course, in all difficult situations, you have a chance. But we will have a little chance – a little chance of surviving without support in the United States. »»
The full interview should be broadcast on Sunday, according to NBC.
His comments were broadcast on the first day of the Munich security conference, where hundreds of anxious European diplomats and others met while waiting to hear the vice-president JD Vance talk about President Trump’s strategy to negotiate Peace negotiations with Russia to end the war in Ukraine.
But Mr. Vance only mentioned Ukraine only by the way and offered no road card for negotiations or even any strategic vision of what Europe should look like after the most devastating ground on the ground on the continent in 80 years. Instead, he urged European nations to cease to isolate their far -right parties, saying that the greatest threat of security was the suppression of freedom of expression.
Earlier in the week, Pete Hegseth, Mr. Trump’s defense secretary, obtained kyiv and European allies in Ukraine by saying at a meeting with NATO and the Ministers of Defense Ukrainian in Brussels that the United States did not support Ukraine’s desire to join NATO as part of a peace plan. He also described a return to the borders of Ukraine before 2014 – when Russia annexed Crimea – as “unrealistic”.
Mr. Trump has repeatedly suggested to exchange American aid for critical minerals from Ukraine, revealing Fox News Earlier this month, he wanted “the equivalent of $ 500 billion in rare land”, a group of crucial minerals for many high-tech products, in exchange for American aid. Ukraine had “essentially agreed to do so,” he said.
In Munich, the Ukrainian president was able to assert his arguments while he was seated through a table Friday of Mr. Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Keith Kellogg, the retired general who is the envoy of Trump For Ukraine and Russia.
Mr. Zelensky asked for “security guarantees”. Mr. Vance stressed the importance of starting the conversations on the end of the war in Ukraine, but refused to discuss details, he said, to preserve the options of the negotiators.
“Basically, the objective is that, as President Trump stressed, we want war to end, we want murder to stop,” said Vance. “But we want to achieve lasting and lasting peace.”
Later, Mr. Zelensky expressed his thanks for American support, but said there was a lot of work to do “to prepare the plan to stop Putin”.
In an article on social networks, he said: “We have addressed many key problems and we are impatient to welcome General Kellogg in Ukraine for new meetings and a more in -depth assessment of the situation on the ground.” He added: “We are ready to move as quickly as possible to real and guaranteed peace.”
The reports were brought by Jim Tankersley,, David E. SANGER,, Steven Erlanger And Maria Varenikova.
