Zelinski says that Ukraine is unlikely to survive the war without supporting the United States

President Voludmir Zelinski said in an excerpt from an interview with the NBC network published on Friday night that Ukraine has a low opportunity to survive in Russia’s assault without the support of the United States.

In the excerpt from “Meet the press with Christine Wilker“Maybe it will be very difficult,” said Mr. Zelinski.

The full interview is scheduled to be broadcast on Sunday, according to NBC.

His comments were broadcast on the first day of the Munich Security Conference, where Hundreds of worried European diplomats and others An expected gathering to hear Vice President JD Vance talks about President Trump’s strategy to mediate peace negotiations with Russia to end the war in Ukraine.

But Mr. Vance mentioned Ukraine only in success and did not provide a road map of negotiations or even any strategic vision of what Europe should seem after the most destructive land war that has been launching on the continent for 80 years. Instead, it is Urging European countries To stop isolating their extreme right -wing parties, saying that the biggest security threat was the suppression of freedom of expression.

Earlier this week, Beit Higseth, Minister of Defense of Mr. Trump, Kiev and European allies in Ukraine, said at a meeting with the Ukrainian defense ministers in Brussels that the United States did not support Ukraine’s desire to join NATO as part of A. Peace plan. He also described the return to the borders of Ukraine before 2014 – when Russia included the Crimea – as “unrealistic”.

Mr. Trump has again and again A proposal to circulate American aid for critical minerals in UkraineSaying Fox News Earlier this month, he wanted “the equivalent of $ 500 billion in rare land”, a group of decisive minerals for many high -tech products, for American aid. He said that Ukraine “mainly agreed to do so.”

In Munich, the Ukrainian president obtained his case while sitting on a table on Friday from Mr. Vans, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Keith Keel, the retired general who is Trump’s envoy to Ukraine and Russia.

Mr. Zellinski requested “security guarantees”. Mr. Vans stressed the importance of starting talks about ending the war in Ukraine, but he refused to discuss the details, he said, to preserve the options of negotiators.

“The primary goal is, as President Trump explained, we want the war to end from its end, we want the killing to stop,” said Mr. Vans. “But we want to achieve a permanent and lasting peace.”

Later, Mr. Zellinski expressed his thanks for the American support, but he said that there is a lot of work to do “to prepare the plan to stop Putin.”

In a post on social media, he said: “We have dealt with many major issues and we look forward to welcoming General Keel in Ukraine for more meetings and a deeper evaluation of the situation on the ground.” He added: “We are ready to move as soon as possible towards a real and guarantee.”

Reports previously contributed Oh Tancrasleyand David E. Sangerand Stephen Erlangeger and Maria Varinkova.