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.”
It’s not a minor linguistic distinction. They literally were not promised protection of their territorial sovereignty. They were promised military intervention if Russia used nukes, and security assurances if Russia used military force but not nukes. This was made repeatedly clear to all signatories.
And we’ve all been sending military aid and funding to Ukraine since 2014.
That’s two myths:
That Ukraine was “promised protection” in exchange for giving up its nukes - it wasn’t.
That Ukraine was ignored after Russia invaded in 2014 - it wasn’t.
I suggest you take some time to read what we’ve actually been doing since 2014:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_military_aid_to_Ukraine_during_the_Russo-Ukrainian_War
And then maybe post some links of your own as to where you’re getting these false ideas, probably Russian propaganda I presume?