European leaders have warned against Ukrainian boundaries that they are scheduled to take place in Alaska two days before the US-Russia summit on Ukraine.
In a statement, European leaders said, “The people of Ukraine should have the freedom to decide their future.”
This respected the principles of “regional integrity” and “international borders should not be replaced by force”.
The statement was signed by 26 out of 27 leaders. Hungarian leader Victor Orban, missing from signators, was a friendly relationship with Russia and has repeatedly tried to block the support of the European Union for Ukraine.
The statement underlined the nervousness felt by Europeans about Moscow’s functions in Ukraine, which many countries – especially people with Russia borders or in which Soviet occupation memory still believes that there may be a direct threat in the near future.
In recent years, Sweden and Finland have joined NATO, Baltic countries have restored conferences, and Poland has separated billions with Russia to create a barrier with its limits.
European countries have a long history of borders by bloody wars and are extremely concerned with the possibility of America, allowing this to happen in Ukraine. A legal recognition of Russia’s sovereignty over areas conquered by force is unacceptable to the European Union.
However, the perception that some Ukrainian regions cannot return to Kiev under Russian control are currently acquiring land.
US President Donald Trump has insisted that any peace deal will include “exchange of some states” and Russia can carry the entire Donbas region in eastern Ukraine and maintain Crimea. In turn, it will release Kherson and Zaporizhajia regions, which partially capture.
Last week, accepting that some Ukrainian region may be gauory controlled by Russia, NATO’s head Mark Rute insisted that it should not be formally recognized.
In his statement, European leaders stated that “the war of aggression against Ukraine is a widespread implication for European and International Security”, and emphasized the need for “just and permanent peace”.
He also stated that Ukraine should be able to “effectively protect himself” and promise to provide military assistance to Kiev, which was “exercising its inherent rights of self-defense”.
The statement said, “The European Union underlines Ukraine’s underlying rights to choose its fate and will continue to support Ukraine on its way for the membership of the European Union.”
Denting the clear unity of the declaration was a line in the small print at the bottom of the page, stating that “Hungary does not combine itself with this statement”.
In a post on social media, its leader Victor Orban said that he had opted to support the statement as it had attempted to determine the conditions for a meeting, in which the European Union was not invited and warned the leaders not to start “providing instructions from the bench”.
He also urged the European Union to set up his summit with Russia – although the European Union leader is having direct talks with Moscow as it launched its attack on Ukraine in February 2022.
On Monday, Trump revealed that he had sought Orban’s advice on the possibility of Ukraine winning against Russia on the battlefield. Trump said, “He looked at me like this, ‘Is there a stupid question’,” Suggesting that Orban felt that Russia would continue to fight until he defeated his opponent.
The European Union leaders are due to interacting with Trump on Wednesday. They will be hoping to put the safety of the European continent and Ukrainian interests at the forefront – at a time when the nervousness is increasing that the peace on Ukraine can be neither “nor” permanent “.
Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin are expected to meet in Alaska on Friday.
