Before the Alaska summit: Europeans before Alaska summit: Fahele security interests

In front of Donald Trump’s Alaska summit with Vladimir Putin on Ukraine, Europeans are trying to set the US president five points for possible peace talks-including a ceasefire and security guarantees.

Chancellor Friedrich Merz (CDU) made it clear at a press conference with the Ukrainian President Wolodymyr Selenskyj: “In Alaska, fundamental European and Ukrainian security interests have to be preserved.” The Europeans Trump gave this message on their way. Merz spoke of “hope for movement” and “hope for peace in Ukraine”.

The Europeans and Selenskyj fear that Trump and Putin in Alaska could agree on territories of Ukraine to Russia on Friday that Kiev strictly rejects.

As a signal of support for Ukraine, Merz, who had organized the video selections, also invited Selenskyj to the phone conference with Trump in Berlin. The Ukrainian referred to the constitution of his country on the question of territory, which this does not allow. Selksyj said, however: “I would like to underline that any questions that affect the territorial integrity of our state cannot be discussed without considering our state, our people, the will of the state, the will of our people and the constitution of Ukraine.”

“A ceasefire must be at the beginning”

Merz emphasized that the advisors were very agreed in the assessment of the starting point as well as in the achievable goal for Friday. With a view of the summit in Alaska, he said: “We want President Donald Trump to succeed in Anchorage on Friday.”

It was made clear that Ukraine had to sit at the table as soon as there were subsequent meetings. “We want to negotiate in the correct order. A ceasefire must be at the beginning,” said Merz. Essential elements should then be agreed in a framework agreement.

Third, he named: “Ukraine is ready for negotiations on territorial questions. But then the so -called contact line must be the starting point and a legal recognition of Russian staffing is not up for debate. The principle that boundaries must not be violently changed must be removed.” The front course is called the contact line.

“Robust security guarantees for Kiev” and the defense capacity by the Ukrainian armed forces are also necessary. In addition, negotiations would have to be part of a common transatlantic strategy.

Without results in Alaska more pressure on Russia

If there is no movement in Alaska, the United States and Europeans would have to increase the pressure: “President Trump knows this position, he shares it very largely. And that’s why I can say: We have had a really very constructive and good conversation with each other.”

In addition to Merz, Selenskyj and Trump, EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, EU Council President António Costa and NATO General Secretary Mark Rutte, as well as France President Emmanuel Macron, the British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Italy’s head of government Giorgia Meloni and Finnish President Alexander Stubb. In addition, Poland was represented in various rounds by head of state Karol Nawrocki or Prime Minister Donald Tusk.

According to the EU Commission President, Europe, the USA and NATO have strengthened their common basis, as they announced after the switching conference. She spoke of a “very good conversation” in which the upcoming bilateral meeting in Alaska had been exchanged.

France’s head of state Emmanuel Macron spoke in favor of a three -way meeting between Trump, Kremlin chief Putin and Selenskyj in Europe. He said: “We wish that this will be held in Europe, in a neutral country that is accepted from all sides.”

Russia also wants to talk about bilateral questions in Alaska

According to the Foreign Ministry in Moscow, Russia wants to continue working on the normalization of bilateral relations on Friday. The meeting is about all the questions that have accumulated-from the Ukraine conflict and the obstacles for a normally functioning dialogue between the two countries, said the deputy ministry spokesman Alexej Fadejew in Moscow. The summit is of great importance for international peace and stability in the world.

Russian troops have been increasingly advanced in the east of Ukraine in the past few weeks. At the same time, the United Nations in Ukraine registered a maximum of injured and killed civilians in July. According to the report published by the High Commissioner for Human Rights, 286 people were killed and 1,388 injured. That is the highest value since May 2022.

Compared to the same month, the number of victims increased by 22.5 percent. Almost 40 percent of the victims are due to Russian air strikes with drones and rockets to goals in the Ukrainian hinterland – including large cities such as Kiev, Dnipro and Charkiw.