While the search for the diplomatic headquarters for the face to face Putin -zeky continues, the Russian Foreign Minister specifies that the security guarantees for Ukraine will have to be agreed with Moscow.
While the major heads of state of the NATO countries gathered in a virtual meeting to discuss any security guarantees For Ukraine, from Moscow the Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov he specified: “seriously discussing security guarantees without the Russian Federation is a utopia, A road that does not bring anywhere».
The head of Russian diplomacy has therefore declared that Moscow “cannot accept that it is now suggested to resolve collective security issues without the Russian Federation”. Clear words, aimed at extinguishing all enthusiasm about the much talked about deployment of western troops proposed by Germany, the United Kingdom and France.
If these declarations are added those of the lavrov spokesman, Maria Zakharovaarrived just as the European leaders were in Washington, in which the spokesman declared that “to refuse any scenario that provides for the deployment of a military contingent in Ukraine with the participation of NATO countries», Here the Russian position appears quite clear and clear.
That the peace process for the resolution of the conflict was tortuous and fraught with obstacles is not surprising. The Summit in Alaska Fra Donald Trump And Vladimir Putinwhich was followed that of Washington with Zelensky And the European allies, he seriously put back the peace negotiations.
The problem of security guarantees
One of the main obstacles, perhaps the most important, concerns the so -called “security guarantees” to be provided to Ukraine, for which West and Russia seem to have two different conceptions. In general, they will have to guarantee that in the event of renewed aggression by Moscow there is an automatic mechanism that allows the guarantees to guarantee intervene militarily in defense of Kiev.
On this point, following the summit in Alaska, Donald Trump announced that Vladimir Putin made an opening, consenting to the idea of providing security guarantees in Kiev. After the Washington summit, the leaders announced that in the following ten days they would work precisely to these guarantees, but the differences with Moscow appear evident.
For example, if the United Kingdom, France and Germany have already made it known that they are willing to send troops to Ukraine as a “reassurance force” once a peace agreement, Russia, as announced today by Lavrov, seems to have in mind the guarantees proposed in a document by the same negotiators of Kiev in 2022 during the negotiations, then shipwrecked, in Istanbul.
Lavrov recalled that the proposal of the Ukrainian part, that “the Russian delegation had accepted”, Among other things, it provided that the permanent members of the UN Security Council were also guaranteeing Ukraine’s safety, “including Russia and China, as well as the USA, France and Great Britain“In addition to other countries, without however there was the deployment of soldiers of third countries.
The headquarters of the face to face Putin -zeky
At the same time, the “hunting” to the diplomatic headquarters continues that will host what could become one of the most anticipated leaders of the year, The face to face between Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky. Among the hypotheses currently on the field, Budapest stands out, towards which the White House would look with particular interest for logistical reasons and political affinity with Viktor Orban, a figure also welcome to Moscow.
However, there is no shortage of alternatives presented by other diplomatic actors: Switzerland has offered Geneva, evaluated favorably especially for its guarantees of neutrality and for the possibility of granting a temporary immunity to Putin, despite the arrest warrant of the International Criminal Court, if the visit had the purpose of facilitating peace interviews.
The Moscow counter -proposal to host the summit in Moscow has already been rejected by Zelenskyfor obvious reasons, while some sources report that Hungary would be ready to take charge of the organization, with Budapest that seems to emerge as a concrete location also for a possible trilateral meeting between Putin, Zelensky and Trump.
