Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said {that a} doc on US safety ensures for Ukraine is totally prepared for signing.
Supply: Zelenskyy at a joint press convention with the leaders of Lithuania and Poland in Vilnius, as reported by European Pravda
Quote: "The doc is 100% prepared, we’re ready for companions to verify readiness, the date and the place the place we are going to signal it."
Particulars: Zelenskyy mentioned the settlement will should be ratified by the US Congress and Ukraine's Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian parliament).
The president additionally talked about the European component of the safety ensures, saying it ought to embrace the work of the Coalition of the Keen and the date Ukraine joins the EU.
Quote: "Second safety ensures for Ukraine are European safety ensures, the Coalition of the Keen, and most significantly – membership within the European Union. These are financial safety ensures for Ukraine. We would like the yr 2027; we’re speaking a few particular date when Ukraine will probably be prepared."
Particulars: Zelenskyy added that Ukraine will probably be ready to open all negotiating clusters within the first half of 2026 and totally prepared to affix at a "technical stage" in 2027.
"We would like a particular date [for EU accession – ed.] in our treaty on ending the battle so that each one events will adhere to those agreements, together with the aggressor, who will signal a 20-point plan if the second comes," the president famous.
Background:
- On 8 January, Zelenskyy mentioned {that a} bilateral doc on safety ensures for Ukraine was successfully able to be finalised on the highest stage with US President Donald Trump.
- Throughout their assembly in Davos, Trump and Zelenskyy mentioned safety ensures for Ukraine.
- Politico, a Brussels-based politics and coverage information organisation, reported that the US considers its safety ensures for Ukraine extra useful than European ones, regardless of Washington's refusal to ship troops.
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