“Ukraine will never accept agreements made behind us without our involvement”. After the phone call from Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, Volodymyr Zelensky says hers, in a clear and determined way. At the Security Conference in Munich today was the day of the Ukrainian president, who yesterday, February 14, met the American vice-president JP Vance for the first time for a first comparison. The road to possible negotiations for the resolution of the war between Russia and Ukraine still remains very uncertain.
Zelensky reiterated that no agreement on the future of his country can be signed without Kyiv and without the European Union. «Europe must have a place at the table when decisions are made on her, everything else is zero. If we are excluded from negotiations on our future, then we will lose ». The Ukrainian leader urged Europe to commit itself to a common foreign policy and constitute a common army. He also claimed to have a plan ready, that he hopes to be able to share with Trump in a meeting as soon as possible. He warned about the real intentions of the Russian president revealing that “according to secret services, this summer Russia wants to send troops to Belarus, on the pretext of making exercises. They could attack Ukraine from there », or other NATO countries.
Zelensky reiterated the will of Ukraine to enter the Atlantic alliance Explaining that for Kiev the security guarantee is “Ukraine’s membership in NATO”. The condition for negotiations, for Zelensky, is that Moscow retires from the territories occupied since 2022 and that the boundaries preceding the Russian invasion are therefore restored.
Meanwhile, in Ukraine, the attacks know no respite, missiles and Russian drones continue to hit different areas of the country. According to Ukrainian sources, A Russian drone would have affected the protective sarcophagus of the former Chernobyl nuclear power plant, A protective structure built to contain radioactive emissions after the 1986 nuclear disaster. The International Agency for Atomic Energy (AIEA) immediately intervened and confirmed that radioactive spills were not occurred.
In Donbas Russian forces continue the pressure on the city of Pokrovsk, in the Donetsk region, a strategically very important center because it is a meeting point of different communication routes. In the east and south of the country, in the areas along the front, many villages and communities – inhabited especially by the elderly – have remained without light, gas, waterbecause the energy structures were targeted by Russian and destroyed attacks. The needs of the people left in the areas of the front are immense: there is a need for everything, food, medicines, hygienic-sanitary products. And still heavy clothes, blankets, wood for fire, to resist winter frost that still looms on these tireless regions.
(Photo Ansa: the Ukrainian President Zelensky at the Monaco Conference)
