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Kathmandu. US President Donald Trump has suggested that he hold separate, hour-long telephone conversations with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky this week to start peace talks, international media reported. AFP reporters have reviewed their positions to find out Moscow and Kiev’s position on the need for talks to end the three-year war.
‘Root causes’ of conflict must be addressed: Russia Putin said in his call with Trump that ending the war in Ukraine requires addressing the ‘root causes’ of the conflict. According to Russia, the move was taken in late 2021, in reference to security demands Moscow made to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and Washington just weeks before it started the war. The demands envisioned sweeping changes to Europe’s security architecture, including the withdrawal of US and NATO troops from the Eastern Bloc, including the former Soviet republics, the Baltic states, Romania and Bulgaria. All of them are NATO and EU members. Russia has also sought a commitment from NATO not to grant membership to any other former Soviet state, including Ukraine, or to take military action on the territory of the former Soviet Union.
The Kremlin has rejected the idea of exchanging Russian-held territory in Ukraine for Ukrainian territory held by its own forces since the invasion. Moscow has said any agreement to end the conflict must reflect “new realities on the ground,” noting that it annexed four southern and eastern regions of Ukraine in 2022 and annexed Crimea in 2014.
It has refused to hold direct talks with Zelensky, claiming that his term ended last year. Zelensky is the leader under martial law imposed after the invasion and has been internationally recognized. Putin has praised US President Donald Trump.
The Russian leader has said he is ready to meet with US President Donald Trump, and has said that the war would not have started if Trump had been in the White House in 2022. Ensuring a Just Peace: Ukraine Ukrainian President Zelensky wants the war to end as soon as possible and for Ukraine to receive security guarantees to prevent future Russian aggression, and demands NATO membership or a large-scale foreign peacekeeping force. He has said that the talks should include Ukraine, Russia, the United States and the European Union, as Kiev, which is currently a candidate country for EU membership, hopes to join the bloc. Kiev has refused to cede its territory to Russia. But Zelensky has said that Ukraine can regain some territory through diplomacy.
He has tried to rally allies around a Ukrainian vision for ending the war through two documents: a peace formula and a victory plan. He has said that talks outside of Kiev will fail. Ukraine seized part of the Kursk region on the Russian border last August and has said the area would be a key bargaining chip in any talks.
Earlier this week, he floated the idea of giving up some of the territory Russia holds in Ukraine in exchange for it. He had previously said the full withdrawal of Russian troops would be a precondition for talks and that only a “just peace” could bring a lasting end to the war. Background “Russia will continue to monitor Kiev without any agreements,” Zelensky and senior Ukrainian officials have claimed, referring to several past agreements. Moscow and Kiev signed the deal in July 2022 with Turkey and the United Nations.
The deal allowed Ukraine to bypass a Russian naval blockade on the Black Sea to export grain. The Kremlin unilaterally terminated the agreement a year later, complaining that its demands for relief to end the sanctions had been ignored. The talks in Munich this week come a decade after France, Germany, Ukraine and Russia tried to broker a peace deal in the Belarusian capital Minsk to end the fighting between Kremlin-backed separatists and Kiev.
The fragile accords gave Russian-backed separatists de facto control over large swaths of eastern Ukraine. This gave Russia time to build up its military to launch a full-scale invasion in 2022.
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