{"id":340157,"date":"2025-08-13T03:45:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T03:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/340157\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T03:45:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T03:45:15","slug":"peace-deal-cannot-be-made-without-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/340157\/","title":{"rendered":"Peace deal cannot be made without Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"

People look at a nine-storey residential building destroyed following a recent Russian missile strike in Kyiv, on Aug 5, 2025. (PHOTO \/ AFP)<\/p>\n

BRUSSELS\/BUDAPEST\/KYIV – Any peace deal must respect international law and cannot be imposed without Kyiv’s consent, leaders of the European Union said Tuesday, ahead of a meeting between US and Russian presidents.<\/p>\n

In a statement, the European leaders said a “just and lasting peace” must uphold Ukraine’s independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity, stressing that borders “must not be changed by force”.<\/p>\n

“The path to peace in Ukraine cannot be decided without Ukraine,” they said. “Meaningful negotiations can only take place in the context of a ceasefire or reduction of hostilities.”<\/p>\n

The bloc reiterated its support for Ukraine’s political, economic, humanitarian, military and diplomatic needs, and pledged to continue to uphold and impose restrictive measures against Russia.<\/p>\n

The leaders also reaffirmed their support for Ukraine to join the EU.<\/p>\n

US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin are scheduled to meet in Alaska on Friday to discuss a possible Russia-Ukraine ceasefire and ways to improve bilateral ties.<\/p>\n

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Saturday that Ukraine would not cede territory to Russia after Trump suggested there could be some “swapping of territories” to end the conflict.<\/p>\n

Hungary did not sign the statement. Prime Minister Viktor Orban wrote on X that Hungary would not back a statement setting conditions for a meeting to which EU leaders were not invited.<\/p>\n

“The declaration tries to set conditions for a negotiation to which the EU leaders were not even invited,” Orban wrote on social media. “It is already sad enough that the EU has been sidelined.”<\/p>\n

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He added that the only reasonable course of action would be, following the example of the planned US-Russia meeting, to initiate an EU-Russia summit. “Let’s give peace a chance,” he said.<\/p>\n

In this file photo dated Feb 18, 2025, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (right) and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky arrive for a joint news conference following their meeting at the presidential palace in Ankara (PHOTO \/ DIA PHOTO VIA AP)<\/p>\n

Zelensky: Turkiye ready to host summit<\/strong><\/p>\n

Also on Tuesday, Zelensky announced on social media that Turkiye is willing to host a four-nation summit to advance the peace process in the Russia-Ukraine conflict.<\/p>\n

The announcement followed a phone conversation on Tuesday between Zelensky and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.<\/p>\n

Erdogan confirmed his country’s readiness to organize a summit of the leaders of Ukraine, the United States, Russia and Turkiye, according to Zelensky.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Terror attack on Russian military official foiled<\/strong><\/p>\n

Separately, Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said it foiled a terror attack targeting a high-ranking Defense Ministry official in the Moscow region.<\/p>\n

The agency said it detained a dual Russian-Ukrainian citizen attempting to use a homemade explosive device disguised in a car for the attack.<\/p>\n

The vehicle, filled with more than 60 kg of explosives, was to be detonated when the high-ranking officer passes by, the FSB said.<\/p>\n

READ MORE: <\/strong>Ukrainian drone attacks hit helium plant in Russia<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Over the past year, Russian authorities have reported multiple foiled plots involving car bombs and other explosive devices, often accusing Ukrainian special services of orchestrating them.<\/p>\n

In a high-profile incident, Russian Lieutenant General Yaroslav Moskalik, deputy chief of the General Staff’s main operations directorate, was killed in a car explosion in the Moscow region on April 25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"People look at a nine-storey residential building destroyed following a recent Russian missile strike in Kyiv, on Aug…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340158,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[6178,2000,299,5187,332,657,978],"class_list":{"0":"post-340157","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-conflict","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-european","12":"tag-russia","13":"tag-ukraine","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115019404114469961","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}