The Prime Minister’s office said that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau reaffirmed the position of Canada that “Ukraine” must be included in negotiations to end Russia on a large scale during a call with Ukrainian President Folodimir Zellinski on Thursday.
The invitation was held days after the United States was held in the first round of bilateral talks with Russian officials on ending the war, while US President Donald Trump Zelinsky is increasingly attacking – the White House refused to walk.
“Prime Minister Trudeau reiterated that Canada will always lead in defense of Ukraine and stressed that there could be no sustainable peace in Europe without security to Ukraine.”
“The leaders emphasized that any peaceful end of the conflict should include Ukraine at the negotiating table.”
Trudeau and Zelinski also discussed the efforts to secure “a permanent peace that enables strong, democratic and prosperous Ukraine.”
Last week witnessed a set of events that left leaders in Ukraine and the European people who were marginalized from talks to end the war that lasted nearly three years, as well as increasing concern about Trump’s comments about Ukraine.
Officials from Washington and Moscow said after talks in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on Tuesday that the meeting was a first step and that the relationship between the United States in Russia needs to be reformed before Ukraine was introduced into future peace negotiations.
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On Wednesday, Trump Zelinski described a “dictator” and warned that he was “moving better” to negotiate the end of the war or risk that there is no nation to lead. NATO allies condemned any interrogation of Zelinski’s legitimacy as an elected leader of Ukraine.
On the day before, Trump said that Ukraine “should have never started” the conflict that started in 2022 when Russia invaded its neighbor. Ukraine has sought to defend itself from the Moscow attack since then with the help of military and financial aid from the United States, Europe and Canada.
When asked about Trump’s hostility on Thursday at a press conference, White House National Security Adviser Mike Valz said that he reflects the increasing threat of management in what Zelinski sees creates road barriers on the way to peace.
“His frustration with President Zellinski, whom I heard is multifaceted,” said Valz on Trump on Thursday.
“There must be a deep appreciation for what the American people did and the American tax motivated, and what President Trump did during his first term and what we have done since then. There is some speech that comes out of Kyiv, frankly, and insults to President Trump (that) was not acceptable.” .
Waltz said that Trump was frustrated because Zelinski rejected an offer made by the US Treasury Secretary last week, Scott Payette, who would have given the United States access to critical minerals in Ukraine as support for the United States during the war, as well as future aid to Ukraine.
Zelinski said I asked the deal more than Ukraine than it received from the United States and did not include any specific security guarantees.
Al -Fals – who wrote, as a member of Congress 2023 Fox News OP-Ed Russia was responsible for the Ukraine war “like al -Qaeda was responsible for September 11” – she was not directly answered whether he is now agreeing with Trump that Zelinski is more responsible than Russian President Vladimir Putin. He also did not respond when asked if Trump was looking at Putin as a dictator.
Waltz said of Trump: “His goal here is to end this war,” Waltz said of Trump.
The increasing tension with Ukraine was shown on Thursday when a planned press conference was canceled between Zelinski and General Keith Kelog, Trump’s private envoy to Ukraine for talks in Kiev, at the last minute.
The event was originally supposed to include comments on the media by Zelenskyy and Kelleogg, but it was changed to a simple opportunity for pictures without data or questions. Ukrainian presidential spokesman, Seerhai Nikiforov, said this change was requested by the American team.
Zelenskyy, who wrote on his Telegram channel, said that the meeting with Kelogg was “a good conversation, and a lot of details. He said that they discussed security guarantees for Ukraine and the return of Ukrainian prisoners from Russian reservation.
“We can and must make peace be reliable and permanently so that Russia cannot return with the war again,” he wrote. “Ukraine is ready for a strong and truly useful agreement with the President of the United States on investments and security.”
European leaders, including Britain and France, discussed a security guarantee led by Europe to Ukraine as part of the peace agreement, which the Trump administration said supported.
– With files from the Associated Press
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