Europe’s battle as a response to our preparations for Ukraine’s peace talks

The Western capital paid the floor for a possible decisive week of European security as the United States and Russia began negotiations to end the Ukrainian war, with European leaders holding an emergency meeting to deal with negotiations without their rapid development.

Europe’s most powerful leaders will gather in Paris on Monday to participate in Ukraine’s crisis negotiations and a decision by Donald Trump to open peace talks with Russia. The conversations will officially begin in Saudi Arabia this week, when Trump’s top diplomat Marco Rubio sat down with Russia’s Sergei Lavrov.

Rubio-Lavrov’s meeting aims to lay the foundation for Trump to meet Vladimir Putin, which comes after the U.S. leader and his Russian counterpart agree to start peace talks In the case, the U.S. leader shocked the European capital.

It will highlight Europeans’ commitment to negotiations that could eventually reshape the continent’s security architecture.

“This is the beginning. Finnish President Alexander Stubb told the Financial Times that things are definitely moving.” “Is the European tectonic plate changing?”

He refers to the date of the full Russian invasion, adding: “I think the world order began to change on February 24, 2022, and we now see where it is going.”

Including British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk and heads of EU institutions and NATO leaders tomorrow should President Emmanuel Macron ) invitations will be squeezed in Paris.

Officials briefly gave a brief introduction to the preparations and they will discuss specific plans to maintain European defenses to maintain European defenses.

Starmer said this is “a generational moment for our national security, the reality of our world today.”

A Western official briefed a Western official during negotiations: “This is crazy.” “All [Europe] What must be done is to give Ukraine as much as possible to better say “no” to the throat-bumping thing [by the US and Russia]. ”

Putin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Trump’s decision was a “strong signal that we will try to resolve the issue through dialogue and talk about peace rather than war” in a comment on Sunday .

A person close to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Ukraine was not invited to the U.S.-Russia talks in Saudi Arabia. “Of course, we understand that Americans have their own problems with Russians, and that’s not our business – about bilateral relations. . But if we talk, we need to have Ukraine and Europe. [are] About Ukraine and Europe,” the person said.

European leaders in Paris will discuss ideas, including the deployment of European troops to Ukraine, which may be stationed behind rather than a future ceasefire line as a “rest assurance force,” the two officials said.

However, there is uncertainty about what role the United States will play in ensuring the security of any NATO force in Ukraine. Trump’s team has ruled out the deployment of U.S. troops to Ukraine, but European officials said the U.S. has not ruled out the possibility of providing external support for any deployment of NATO allies.

Many European governments are also upset about the specific details of weapons, money and peacekeeping forces this week, according to a brief introduction to discussions between the capitals.

“The overall feeling is that it’s a good exercise in thinking about what everyone can offer, but the response to the United States should be collective,” one of the officials said.

“I hope anything that comes out in Paris will appeal to Americans so we have more skin in the game,” Stubb said.

European leaders and diplomats spent most of their weekend at the Munich security conference, trying to parse the roles of individual members of Trump’s negotiating team and how they ultimately shape the president’s attitude.

A senior European official said a “95% deal” was reached with 80-year-old retired general Keith Kellogg, appointed Trump’s Ukrainian envoy, who described Russia as “enemy” ”.

But officials warned that Kellogg’s view was not appointed as a member of Trump’s four-member negotiating team, and he was not necessarily commensurate with Rubio’s view, for example, “Who probably won’t see it the same way.”

In a meeting of Ukraine’s views on Ukraine, Rubio said at a G7 Foreign Minister in Munich, the three briefed the discussion. The two said he noted that the talks with Lavrov would focus on logistics and planning for the Putin-Trump meeting and would not give details of the negotiated positions in detail.

“The last government [under Joe Biden] There is no dialogue, just a war without an end. Peskov said on Sunday. He added that Trump’s position “should be more impressive for any person or country who has a thought.”

Peskov also said Russia would “defend its own interests so as not to be attracted by any false promises” in talks with the United States.

Other reports by Felicia Schwartz in Munich, Leila Abboud in Paris, Lucy Fisher in London and Christopher Miller in Kyiv