Trump announces tripartite talks on the Ukrainian war in Munich

President Donald Trump announced that US, Russian and Ukrainian officials will meet at a security conference in Munich on Friday to hold talks on how to end the war in Ukraine.

“Russia will be there with our people,” said US President. “Ukraine is also invited, by the way, not exactly who will be from any country – but high -level people from Russia, Ukraine and the United States.”

However, Russia – which is not officially attended by the annual forum in Germany – has not commented, and a senior Ukrainian official said that “talks with the Russians in Munich” “unexpected”.

NATO allies in America are still interacting with Trump’s sudden announcement this week that he and Russian President Vladimir Putin have agreed to a phone call to start talks to end the war.

Ukrainian President Folodimir Zellinski, Trump Vice President, JD Vance, is scheduled to meet in Munich.

Zelinski is expected to meet US Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

The Rubio plane was to return to an American air base in Maryland late Thursday, after she faced a “mechanical issue” on its way to the German city. He was to take a different plane.

The US President announced the three -way meeting in Munich during a press conference on Thursday, without providing any other details.

However, Zelensky Dmytro Lytvyn Adviser told reporters that the Ukrainian delegation has no plans to attend this meeting.

Russia did not immediately respond to the BBC’s request to comment on the case.

Trump’s announcement came a day after making separate phone calls first with Putin, then with Zelinsky.

Trump described it as “wonderful”, there was “a good possibility to end that terrible and very bloody war.”

But he said it was not “practical” for Kiev joining the NATO military alliance and also “unlikely” that Ukraine will return to the pre -invasion borders in 2014.

Zelinski – who admitted that he was “very fun” that Trump had spoken to Putin before him – that Ukraine would not agree to any peace deal proposed by the United States and Russia without Kiev’s involvement.

“We cannot accept this, as an independent country,” he said, stressing that his priority was “security guarantees”, a thing that he did not see without support for us.

Zelinski said that the European allies “need to be at the negotiating table as well”, amid increasing fears throughout the continent that Otor Trump to Putin could lead to a separate deal for the United States in Russia in the future of Ukraine and Europe.

French President Emmanuel Macron told the Financial Times that Zelinski alone was unable to negotiate on behalf of his country with Russia, and warned that “peace that represents a surrender” will be “bad news for everyone”.

“Any quick solution is a dirty deal,” said the head of the European Union Foreign Policy Kaja Calas.

In Munich, Zelinski’s goals appear at his meeting with Vans clear: to encourage the United States to continue to stand by Ukraine and maintain the interests of the besieged nation as it tries to negotiate the end of the war.

What Americans want from this meeting is more nonexistent. Vances may try to assure Zelinski that the Ukrainians will participate in the upcoming peace negotiations, even if it appears recently as if they were a beginner partner.

In fact, Vans may present a sharp message – Defense Minister Ptegseth has publicly said on Monday, even if it follows somewhat later. The United States does not imagine NATO, which includes Ukraine. In order to end the war, Ukraine will have to abandon the lands currently under Russian control

The swallowing of a bitter pill for Zelinski, but this type of additional US military aid to Ukraine will eventually need to keep pace with the battle seems unlikely at this stage.

Trump and Trump’s Republican Republican Party in Congress does not care much about maintaining support.

In the wake of the overthrow of the pro -Russian President of Ukraine in 2014, Moscow included the Black Crimea Peninsula and supported the separatists supporting Russia in bloody fighting in eastern Ukraine.

The conflict in the comprehensive war exploded when Russia has invaded Ukraine nearly three years ago.

Moscow’s attempts to control the capital Kiev were thwarted, but Russian forces took about five Ukraine lands in the east and south, and they carried out air strikes throughout the country.

Ukraine has averaged by artillery and drone strikes, as well as a ground attack against the Russian West Cursk region.

It is difficult to obtain accurate census of injuries due to secrecy by both Russian and Ukrainian governments, but it is estimated that hundreds of thousands of people, most of them soldiers, have been killed or wounded, and millions of Ukrainian civilians fled the refugees.