"Senior US officials will meet President Putin in Moscow on Tuesday, two days after US-Ukraine peace talks in Florida. Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has met his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron in Paris to bolster support for Kyiv, as Ukrainian and European defence chiefs gathered in Brussels for talks centred around Ukrainian and collective security. The meetings came on Monday amid a diplomatic flurry of activity to end Russia's almost four-year-old war in Ukraine."
"Before the meeting, Macron's office said the two presidents would discuss the conditions necessary for a fair and lasting peace. Speaking to La Tribune Dimanche newspaper on Sunday, French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said the meeting aimed to move the negotiations forward. Peace is within reach, if [Russian President] Vladimir Putin abandons his delusional hope of reconstituting the Soviet empire by first subjugating Ukraine, he noted."
"Reporting from Brussels, where a meeting of the European Union's defence ministers, also attended by Ukraine's Defence Minister Denys Shmyhal, took place on Monday, Al Jazeera's Hashem Alhelbarra said Kyiv's European allies wanted to see an agreement where there's no notion of part of Ukraine being handed over to Russia as the price they have to pay for a permanent deal."
Senior US officials will meet President Putin in Moscow on Tuesday, two days after US-Ukraine peace talks in Florida. Volodymyr Zelenskyy met Emmanuel Macron in Paris to bolster support for Kyiv. Ukrainian and European defence chiefs gathered in Brussels to discuss collective security. Macron's office said the two presidents would discuss conditions for a fair, lasting peace. French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said peace is within reach if Putin abandons ambitions to reconstitute a Soviet-style empire. European allies want an agreement that does not cede Ukrainian territory and they warned against a blanket amnesty for Russian officials. Zelenskyy briefed Finland's President Alexander Stubb on signals from the American side and spoke with Ursula von der Leyen and Mark Rutte.
Read at www.aljazeera.com
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