{"id":415038,"date":"2024-12-19T12:38:48","date_gmt":"2024-12-19T11:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2024\/12\/19\/ucraina-zelensky-ue-usa\/"},"modified":"2024-12-19T14:29:28","modified_gmt":"2024-12-19T13:29:28","slug":"ukraine-zelensky-calls-for-transatlantic-unity-only-united-the-eu-and-us-can-defeat-putin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2024\/12\/19\/ukraine-zelensky-calls-for-transatlantic-unity-only-united-the-eu-and-us-can-defeat-putin\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine, Zelensky calls for transatlantic unity: ‘Only united the EU and US can defeat Putin’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels – The last European summit<\/a> of the year begins. Everything could be different at the\u00a0next one, scheduled for March 2025. In EU-US.relations, in Washington’s commitment to the resistance by Kyiv\u00a0to the Russian invasion, ultimately for Ukraine itself. Upon arriving in Brussels, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky<\/strong>\u00a0appealed to the Atlantic alliance: “Only\u00a0united, the EU and the US can defeat Putin<\/strong>.”<\/p>\n

The words that followed a dinner with\u00a0the leaders of Italy, Germany, Poland, France, the Netherlands, and Denmark at the residence of NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte<\/strong>. It was a\u00a0restricted meeting in which the head of the Atlantic Alliance\u00a0asked European countries to put on the plate a tangible contribution to the peace<\/strong> to come\u00a0because come January, with Donald Trump’s return to the White House, negotiations with Moscow could suddenly accelerate. However,\u00a0once there is peace, the tycoon seems inclined to disengage from any ‘peace-keeping’ operation on the Ukrainian-Russian border, which may not be what it once was: Zelensky himself recently admitted that Ukraine could not retake Crimea and Donbas.<\/p>\n

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Antonio Costa and Volodymyr Zelensky at the European Council, 19\/12\/24<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The European Union will be asked to assemble tens of thousands of troops as a peace-keeping\u00a0force on what will be the border. However,\u00a0as the talk of tomorrow and the preparations for a negotiation that seems to be approaching multiply, Zelensky brings the European allies back to the present, to the needs of the frontline and the civilian population. “The protection of our energy sector and nuclear and\u00a0gas storage facilities,” the Ukrainian president pointed out. Also, “doubling, increasing as much as possible our domestic military production<\/strong>” and “air-raid shelters, food, a lot of different things, which are very important for our families.”<\/p>\n

Standing next to him was European Council President Ant\u00f3nio Costa<\/strong>, who reiterated the EU cornerstone on Ukraine: “Full support, in any way necessary, and for as long as necessary.” Adding, “Now at war and in the future at peace<\/strong>.” Peace is on everyone’s lips, but let it be “just and lasting,” Costa stressed. Even the president of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola<\/strong>, in her introductory remarks to the table of EU heads of state and government, said that “we must intensify our efforts to move toward peace<\/strong>.” Not “some false version of peace peddled by Russia, but a true and lasting peace,” built around the guiding principle of “Nothing about Ukraine without Ukraine.”<\/p>\n

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The EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs, Kaja Kallas, upon her arrival at the European Council<\/p>\n

The most skeptical seemed to be the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs, Estonian Kaja Kallas<\/strong>, who brought her colleagues back to earth. “We have to talk about how we can support Ukraine more. Zelensky’s meetings here are also about how we can provide more support<\/strong>,” she said\u00a0as she entered the summit, seeking to curb leaps forward on peace talks that have not yet begun. “Any push for negotiations too soon will actually be a bad deal for Ukraine<\/strong>,” Kallas warned. A risk that Rutte already warned <\/a>of,\u00a0saying that excessive speculation about the parameters to be brought into play to end the war benefits Moscow.<\/p>\n

However, it is far more complex to ask Trump to follow the orthodox line\u00a0the EU has up until now outlined, which has prolonged the conflict\u00a0almost into its third year but failed to pursue Kyiv’s military objectives. Luxembourg Prime Minister Luc Frieden, arriving in Brussels, said, “The future of Ukraine is decided in Europe and not elsewhere<\/strong>.” The reality is that it that elsewhere, they have\u00a0already\u00a0decided it, and this\u00a0must be\u00a0considered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ukrainian president in Brussels for summit of EU heads of state and government. The last before Trump takes office in the White House. Kallas warns, “Any push for negotiations too soon will lead to a bad deal for Ukraine.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7527,"featured_media":415023,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25681],"tags":[26042,27175,27335,25789],"class_list":["post-415038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-council-en","tag-ukrainian-en-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7527"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415038"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":415065,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415038\/revisions\/415065"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}