Ukraine war: Zelensky calls Trump's peace plan dangerous

Kyiv. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is skeptical about the US proposal for a new European security order as a way out of Russia's war of aggression against his country. "Between us, for me it's not easy. And it can even be dangerous," Zelensky said in a CNN interview. The US broadcaster published an excerpt of this passage from the conversation in advance.

First there needs to be a discussion about how the war will be ended, Zelenskyj wrote on Platform X. Then his country needs security guarantees. In a third step, a new security architecture in Europe could be discussed.

Ukraine is ready for a ceasefire and de-escalation. But there are no signals from Moscow to give in. "That's why it's dangerous if they don't talk about how to end the war. Russia wants to start with the new security structure in Europe," he said in the interview.

Since Thursday, US President Donald Trump has been talking about a “grand agreement”, a peace plan that has so far not been very concrete and is intended to cover all of Europe and Russia. His son-in-law and negotiator Jared Kushner described on He had previously spoken in Brussels with European partners, NATO and the EU about possible security guarantees for Ukraine.

Kushner's framework is similar to the agreements of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) of 1975 and the NATO-Russia Founding Act of 1997. However, these agreements were the result of long negotiations at times when there was no current war raging.

In the search for a peace solution, a meeting between representatives of Ukraine and Russia is scheduled for next week in Abu Dhabi under US mediation. Shortly afterwards, Trump wants to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping and Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin at the APEC summit in the Asia/Pacific region in China. Trump personally invited Putin to the G20 summit in Florida.

Zelensky warned against attempts by the major powers to collude to the detriment of the EU, NATO and his country. "We all live in Europe. We don't want to have a Yalta, a second Yalta," he said. In Yalta in Crimea in 1945, the Soviet Union, the USA and Great Britain divided Germany and Europe into spheres of influence towards the end of the Second World War.