Germany’s Merz: Zelenskyy should be concerned in Trump-Putin assembly

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz believes that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy ought to be concerned within the 15 August assembly between US President Donald Trump and Russian chief Vladimir Putin in Alaska.

Supply: Merz on TV channel ARD, as reported by European Pravda, citing German TV information service Tagesschau

Particulars: Merz introduced that he’ll communicate by telephone with Trump on Sunday 10 August relating to his deliberate assembly with Putin in Alaska.

Quote: "We’re intensively making ready for this assembly on the European stage along with the US authorities. And we hope and count on that the Ukrainian authorities, President Zelenskyy, will probably be concerned on this assembly…

In any case, we can’t agree that territorial points between Russia and America are mentioned and even determined over the heads of Europeans and Ukrainians."

Particulars: Merz added, "I assume that the US authorities sees it the identical means, which is why there’s such shut coordination".

He stated that what occurs in Alaska on Friday ought to have penalties: "Both within the path of accelerating stress on Russia, or in Russia’s personal recognition that this warfare can’t be continued."

The chancellor stated he hopes that the high-level assembly would additionally result in a call on a ceasefire in Russia’s aggressive warfare towards Ukraine.

Background:

• The Trump-Putin assembly is scheduled to happen in Alaska on 15 August, amid media experiences that Washington and Moscow are supposedly looking for an settlement to halt the warfare in Ukraine that would cement Russia’s occupation of a part of its territory.
• In response, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that "the reply to the Ukrainian territorial query is already within the Structure of Ukraine".
• On the evening of 9-10 August, a joint assertion addressed to Trump and Putin was launched by the leaders of France, Italy, Germany, Poland, the UK, the president of the European Fee, and the president of Finland.

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