Zelenskyy says US, Europe must work together to secure Ukraine peace
Al JazeeraZelenskyy insisted that any steps to secure peace in Ukraine would have to involve the might of the United States. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has urged European countries to provide guarantees to protect Ukraine after the war with Russia ends, but said these would not be enough without support from the United States under Donald Trump. Kyiv and its European allies fear that Trump’s return means the volatile Republican could cut support for Ukraine’s military and force Zelenskyy to make painful concessions to Moscow. No Russian gas transit Zelenskyy also said Ukraine would not consider continued transit of Russian gas. Zelenskyy said he told Fico on Thursday that Ukraine would be open to carrying another country’s gas through its infrastructure to reach Europe – but it would need assurances that this was not merely re-labelled Russian fuel.