Petro Poroshenko urged President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyi to hold a meeting with the leaders of the parliamentary factions to coordinate further steps regarding the peace process.
“The complexity and drama of the situation requires an immediate meeting between Volodymyr Zelenskyi and the leaders of parliamentary factions. Parliament cannot learn about our negotiating position from foreign mass media. I believe that such a meeting should take place immediately after Zelenskyi’s conversation with Trump.” – emphasized Poroshenko, commenting on the results of Donald Trump’s conversation with Vladimir Putin.
He emphasized that the Russians’ refusal to cease fire was expected.
“Putin seems to have invented the perpetum mobile of war and has no intention of ending it. It is not for nothing that yesterday, before the conversation with President Trump, he shared his fantasies about the capture of Odesa at a meeting with oligarchs. This is the same delusion as once about Kyiv in three days. It is in vain to hope that one or more conversations will stop these three years, 11 years of war in general. And a century of attempts to erase Ukraine from the world map. Despite optimistic statements of the participants, we Ukrainians rightly do not have the feeling that yesterday’s telephone conversation brought us closer to peace.” Poroshenko said.
In this regard, he noted, Ukraine is in for a difficult negotiation process.
“For Putin, even the negotiating table is a continuation of the war in a different way. However, from what happened yesterday, when Putin de facto rejected President Trump’s idea of a complete ceasefire, everyone must draw the right conclusions. Either Putin accepts President Trump’s proposal for a complete ceasefire, or Trump uses the “plan B”, about which he said”, Poroshenko stressed.
Such a “plan B” is critically important and should appear on the table. First of all, it should include strengthened economic sanctions, which were announced the day before by US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, as well as the supply to Ukraine of those types of American weapons that the White House has refrained from providing until now.
“Ultimately, we need a new bipartisan resolution of the United States Congress on further multifaceted support for Ukraine. And I am ready to join the lobbying for this resolution. I have, by the way, invitations to Washington and Florida for high-level meetings. I hope that the Office will have the sense not to block my trip to the United States this time, as it just banned me from going to the political assembly of the European People’s Party, the leading political force of the European Union”, Poroshenko emphasized.
