America provides Ukraine with security guarantees for 15 years.. Zelensky: We want a longer period

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America provides Ukraine with security guarantees for 15 years.. Zelensky: We want a longer period

I suggested The United States gives Ukraine security guarantees "Durable" Against Russiafor a period of 15 years, subject to extension, according to what the Ukrainian president revealed Volodymyr Zelensky Monday, indicating that he requested a longer period from Washington during his meeting Sunday with Donald Trump.

Zelensky said during an online press conference "I really want these warranties to be longer. I told him that we would like to consider the possibility of offering 30, 40 or 50 years"He pointed out that his American counterpart promised to study this proposal.

He pointed out that Kiev obtaining security guarantees would be a condition for lifting martial law in Ukraine, which entered into force from the first day of the war with Russia in February 2022, and which specifically prohibits Ukrainian men of military service age (between 25 and 60 years old) from leaving the country except with a special permit.

President Donald Trump

The Ukrainian president expressed his hope that a meeting would be held soon in Ukraine between American and European officials.

He said "We would like to organize a meeting at the advisor level in the coming days. Rustam Umarov (Ukrainian negotiator) is in contact with all American and European advisors. We want this meeting to take place in Ukraine"

He explained that this meeting will precede a meeting between European and Ukrainian leaders, before a possible summit between US President Donald Trump and European leaders.

He continued. "We are all firmly committed to ensuring that the meetings I mentioned in January take place. After that, I think that if things go gradually, a meeting will be held in one form or another with the Russians"

An agreement that ends the war

Zelensky also announced that any plan to end the war between Ukraine and Russia should be signed by Kiev, Moscow, the United States and the Europeans.

He said. "If we move forward, and I really hope we will move quickly, with a 20-item plan, it must bear the signatures of four parties: Ukraine, Europe, America and Russia."

In turn, the Kremlin announced on Monday that it agrees with US President Trump that the talks to end the war in Ukraine are in their final stages.

In response to journalists’ question about whether Moscow agrees with Trump’s assessment following his talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said: "certainly"

Russian strikes on Ukraine

In the same context, the Ukrainian President saw that the Russian strikes on Ukraine and Russian President Vladimir Putin’s internal messages regarding the war were not consistent with his statements. "Peaceful" Which he makes to US President Trump.

Zelensky said "On the one hand, he tells the American president that he wants to end the war and that this is his desire… On the other hand, he publicly publishes in the media all his messages about readiness and desire to continue the war, and he hits us with missiles and speaks openly about the matter, and celebrates the destruction of civilian infrastructure, and gives instructions to his generals on where to advance and what to seize, and so on."

Zelensky also stressed that the issues related to the territories occupied by Russia and the Zaporizhya nuclear plant are still the last unresolved parts of the talks to end the war.