Zelenskyy says plan includes US security guarantees for 15 years, although he asked for more
We are restarting our live coverage of the war in Ukraine and the diplomatic efforts to bring it to an end after nearly four years of conflict following the full-scale Russian invasion in February 2022.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told reporters via WhatsApp this morning that he asked Donald Trump to provide security guarantees of up to 50 years during their high stakes meeting at the US president’s residence in Mar-a-Lago, Florida, yesterday.
Zelenskyy said that, instead, a draft peace framework envisages US security guarantees for Ukraine for 15 years.
It is not clear what form these commitments would take, but the Ukrainian leader has been pushing for “article-5-like” security guarantees from Europe and the US, referring to Nato’s founding principle that an attack on one member should be seen as an attack on all.
Ukraine war live: US has offered 15 years of security guarantees, says Zelenskyy
It sounds he's playing the same game as Trump, foreign trade negotiators, big tech company executives, etc. in making claims about a commitment by the other side that may be exaggerated or false. In any event, he seems to think he needs a 15 year ceasefire to restart the war with 800,000 soldiers and untold number of NATO soldiers and mercenaries claiming to be advisors, trainers, or technicians. |
