Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky welcomed the US decision to participate in security guarantees for Ukraine and stressed that such guarantees must provide protection on land, in the air, and at sea.
“It is a historic decision that the United States is ready to participate in security guarantees for Ukraine. The security guarantees resulting from our joint work must be truly practical and provide protection on land, in the air, and at sea, and must be developed with the participation of Europe,” Zelensky wrote on Telegram following the meeting of the Coalition of the Willing in Brussels on Sunday.
He called the meeting of the Coalition of the Willing “very useful.” “Clear support for Ukraine’s independence and sovereignty. Everyone agrees that state borders should not be changed by force. Everyone supports that key issues should be resolved with Ukraine’s participation in a trilateral format: Ukraine, the US, and the Russian leader,” the US president wrote.
Also, according to Zelensky, the parties are developing a common view on “what a peace agreement should look like — truly honest, quick, and one that will work.”
According to the press service of the Ukrainian president, this was the seventh meeting of the Coalition of the Willing. It was co-chaired by French President Emmanuel Macron, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz.
The meeting was also attended by the presidents of Finland, Alexander Stubb; Lithuania, Gitanas Nausėda; Romania, Nicușor Dăncilă; Cyprus, Nicos Christodoulides; the prime ministers of Japan, Suga Yoshihide; Italy, Giorgia Meloni; Norway, Jonas Gahr Støre; Denmark, Mette Frederiksen; Estonia’s Kirsti Mikhal, Canada’s Mark Carney, Ireland’s Micheál Martin, Latvia’s Evika Silina, Australia’s Anthony Albanese, Luxembourg’s Luc Frieden, the Netherlands’ Dick Schoo, Portugal’s Luis Montenegro, Croatia’s Andrej Plenković, Sweden’s Ulf Kristersson, Belgium’s Bart De Wever, Bulgaria’s Rosen Zhelyazkov, the Czech Republic’s Petr Fiala, Iceland’s Kristrún Frostaðóttir, Montenegro Milojko Spajic, Chancellor of Austria Christian Scholz, Vice President of Turkey Cevdet Yılmaz, President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Council António Costa, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, and Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland Radosław Sikorski.
