Russian President Vladimir Putin “needs to come to the negotiating table,” said yesterday the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, after a telephone conversation with the United States (U.S.) President Donald Trump.
“We need to guarantee a just and lasting peace for Ukraine with firm and credible security guarantees,” she said on the social network X, adding that the European Union (EU) “will fully participate in providing those guarantees.”
Europeans are striving by all means to influence the talks on security in Ukraine and on the continent in general.
Kyiv’s allies are intensively negotiating the type of security guarantees for Ukraine they would provide in order to prevent any possible new Russian attack on that country, even if and when a peace agreement with Moscow is reached.
Those negotiations visibly accelerated after the meeting of Trump and Putin in Alaska on August 15th. That was followed by a meeting at the White House of Trump, the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, and seven European leaders.
Von der Leyen said that yesterday she also spoke with Zelenskyy after the major Russian bombing of Kyiv, where at least 14 people were killed and the premises of the EU delegation were damaged.
