Europe scrambles to respond as US and Russia prepare for Ukraine peace talks

The Western capitals are closed for a possible critical week for European security, as the United States and Russia start holding talks in Ukraine and European leaders without responding to their fast-moving talks.

The most powerful leaders in Europe will gather in Paris, crisis talks on Ukraine and the future of European defense with the decision to open peace talks with Russia. During that week, these talks will begin in Saudi Arabia, when a high-ranking Trump diplomat Marco Rubio is sitting with Sergey Lavrov of Russia.

Rubio-Lavrov’s meeting aims to overcome the trump card to win Vladimir Putin for less than a week, than the US leader shocked the European capitals, to agree to his Russian counterpart.

It will include the lack of Europeans’ investment in negotiations, which can eventually transform its continental security architecture.

“This is the beginning. Finnish President Alexander Stubber told the Finnish President Alexander Stube. “Are the tectonic plates of Europe changing?”

Referring to the date of Russia’s full invasion, he added:

Leaders, including the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and the Prime Minister of Poland Donald Tus and the leaders of the EU and NATO, tomorrow in Paris, President Emanuel McCone.

They will discuss the European defense, regardless of the future involvement of the United States, say how to best support Ukraine and strengthen their negotiation position.

The strayers said that it was “once a generation for our national security, where we are involved in the world today.”

“It is innumerable how fast it is moving,” the Western official said the talks. “Everyone [Europe] Should do as Ukraine as we can to say that “no” threw its throat down to things [by the US and Russia]”

Dmitry Peskov, Putin’s spokesman stated that Trump’s decision to open victory is “a strong signal that we will try to solve problems of dialogue and peace, not war.”

European leaders in Paris will discuss ideas, including the possible deployment of European troops in Ukraine, which will be located on the further ceasefire line as a “strength of assurance”.

But there is uncertainty about the role of the United States to ensure the security of any NATO forces in Ukraine. The Trump team ruled out the deployment of US troops to Ukraine, but European officials say that the United States has not ruled out any deployment of any deployment by NATO allies.

Many European governments are also concerned about responding to the United States ask This week, for special details of weapons, money and peacekeeping troops, which will be ready to send to the post-parliamentary Ukraine, according to many officials, which are presented on discussions between capitals.

“The general feeling is that this is a good exercise to think about what everyone can offer, but that the US response should be from the teams,” said one of the officials.

Stubb said: “I hope that getting out of Paris is something that is attractive to Americans to have more skin in the game.”

European leaders and diplomats have spent most of their time at the Munich Security Conference, trying to analyze the roles of different members of the Trump negotiating team and how they can eventually form the president’s approach.

One high-ranking European official said that “95% agreement” with Keith Kellog, the 80-year-old retired general was appointed Trump’s Ukrainian messenger who described Russia as a “enemy”.

But the official warned that Kellog’s views called as member of the trump’s four-member team, such as Rubio, for example, “who can see the same way.”

During the meeting of G7 foreign ministers in Munich, the RUBION is expecting much less in his views on Ukraine, said three people on discussions. Both said that he noted that Negotiations with Lavrov will discuss planning the logistics and Putin-Trumpet meeting and will not pass any details of the negotiation position.

“With the previous administration [under Joe Biden] There was no dialogue, just a war without end, “Peskov said on Sunday. Trump’s position “should be more impressive for a fair minded person or state,” he added.

Peskov also said that Russia would “defend its interests in order not to get along with false promises” during the talks with the United States.

Additional report by Felicia Schwartz in Munich, Leyla Abbubud in Paris and Lucy Fischer in London