““As the president, I certainly support this idea. I believe that the energy truce is also normal, we will support any cease fire””, — write: www.radiosvoboda.org
“Friedrich really proposed such an idea. And today it was announced by him both officially and during our conversations. The US supports this idea. As the president, I certainly support such an idea. I believe that the energy truce is also normal, we will support any cease fire,” he said, answering journalists’ questions.
“Many things, probably in this sense, depend on the political will of Russia,” the president added.
Earlier, the Chancellor of Germany, Friedrich Merz, offered Russia a truce for Christmas. Mertz said this could be the start of “constructive, sober negotiations that will lead to lasting peace in Ukraine.”
On December 14 and 15, Zelenskyi was in Germany, where the Ukrainian delegation led by the President of Ukraine held talks in Berlin with the special representative of the President of the United States, Steve Witkoff, and the son-in-law of the President of the United States, Jared Kushner.
The Secretary of the NSDC, Rustem Umyerov, who also participated in the negotiations, called them constructive and led to “real progress.”
In recent weeks, the US has again been trying to reach a peace agreement between Moscow and Kyiv. As a result of the week-long negotiations, a document was prepared that is more acceptable to Kyiv, but there are several controversial issues, in particular regarding the territory and security guarantees.
The President of Ukraine previously stated that the negotiators, who are discussing a peace initiative mediated by the United States, maintain disagreements regarding the territories. Subsequently, Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated that the issue of possible compromises regarding territorial issues in a peaceful way should be decided by the Ukrainian people “in the format of elections or a referendum.”
In response, the Kremlin declared that “the entire Donbas is Russian.”