Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy dismissed Saturday the planned summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, warning that any peace deal excluding Kyiv would lead to “dead solutions.”
The meeting, scheduled for Friday in Alaska, is seen as a potential breakthrough after weeks of expressing frustration that more was not being done to quell the fighting.
In a statement posted to Telegram, Zelenskyy said Ukraine’s territorial integrity, enshrined in the constitution, must be non-negotiable and emphasized that lasting peace must include Ukraine’s voice at the table.
Zelenskyy said Ukraine “will not give Russia any awards for what it has done” and that “Ukrainians will not give their land to the occupier.”
Touching on Ukrainian anxieties that a direct meeting between Putin and Trump could marginalize Kyiv and European interests, Zelenskyy said: “Any solutions that are without Ukraine, are at the same time solutions against peace. They will not bring anything. These are dead solutions, they will never work.”
Yes. Sending goods isn’t protection.
And especially not when the US keeps threatening to take away all those goods for trumped-up reasons.
Well yes it is IMO. They can and should do more ofc.
They were never guaranteed “protection”.
Yes, they were. It was the whole reason they gave up their nukes.
Horseshit. GTFO with this vatniki talking point.
The phrase “security guarantees” was specifically excluded. The phrase “security assurance” was a distinction made by the US State Dept lawyers for this exact reason; it makes clear the US is not a guarantor. This has been well known since the signing so no misunderstanding here is reasonable. That is just your distortion of the facts.
Go read the full text of the Budapest Memorandum and then come back and provide a specific citation. I’ll be here waiting.
Ok, so we still failed to assure their security.
Btw, assurance and guarantee are synonymous legally. Assurance is the legal term for a guarantee.
The US has honored both the spirit and letter of this commitment and to date has provided over half of aid Ukraine has received, with it largely uninterrupted even under Trump. At worst, the US is an unreliable partner to Ukraine who should do more. Since the War began, Ukraine has been the US’s largest foreign aid recipient. In absolute terms, the US is still the largest single donor (iirc it was nearly matched by the EU, so maybe is matched by now.)
No reasonable person could claim the country who provided half of Ukrainian aid isn’t helping.
We let Russia invade them. We didn’t assure their security.
Okay, we are talking past each other and I am done with you. Bye forever.
Next time you want to argue semantics, you should try understanding what words mean first.
No, they were guaranteed “security assurance”.
And we failed to assure their security. Assurance = guarantee in legalese.