{"id":55685,"date":"2025-03-03T01:38:14","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T01:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prosfunds.com\/?p=55685"},"modified":"2025-03-03T01:38:15","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T01:38:15","slug":"zelenskyy-rejects-calls-for-immediate-ukraine-russia-ceasefire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prosfunds.com\/?p=55685","title":{"rendered":"Zelenskyy rejects calls for immediate Ukraine-Russia ceasefire"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__content-sign-up-topic-description\">Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world<\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"article__content-sign-up-iframe close\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"signUpIframe\" data-prev-url=\"\/register\/in-article-sign-up?ft-content-uuid=24357fd3-a839-4865-847f-c258933b159f&amp;newsletter-id=65b8fec772badb00166eafc6\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<p>Volodymyr Zelenskyy has rejected calls for Ukraine to agree an immediate ceasefire in its war with Russia, saying it would be \u201cfailure for everyone\u201d if a cessation of hostilities were not accompanied by detailed security guarantees.<\/p>\n<p>The defiant Ukrainian president said he saw no need to make amends for an explosive row with Donald Trump at the White House on Friday or come up with a plan to salvage his relationship with the US president, although he restated his gratitude to the American people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis relationship will continue because this is more than a relationship in one moment,\u201d Zelenskyy, who was speaking after meeting more than a dozen European leaders at a summit in London on Sunday, said in reference to the bust-up that shocked Kyiv\u2019s allies. <\/p>\n<p>Trump and his allies have said Kyiv should be willing to agree a ceasefire, a point echoed by Lord Peter Mandelson, the UK\u2019s ambassador to Washington, on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Zelenskyy said Russia\u2019s failure to abide by a ceasefire in eastern Ukraine after invading in 2014 convinced him that it would be a mistake to agree to stop fighting without an enforcement mechanism backed up by military force.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you don\u2019t have an end to the war and you don\u2019t have security guarantees, no one is able to control a ceasefire,\u201d Zelenskyy said from London\u2019s Stansted airport as he prepared to fly back to Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>The Ukrainian leader was asked about a report in French newspaper Le Figaro that France and the UK had proposed a \u201cmonth-long truce in the air, at sea and on energy infrastructure\u201d, but declined to comment.<\/p>\n<p>UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said he would work on plans for a stabilisation force for Ukraine involving France and potentially other countries before presenting them to Trump in the hope of persuading him to provide a US backstop for any European mission.<\/p>\n<p>The Ukrainian leader said Starmer\u2019s announcement was a \u201cgood signal\u201d, but a lot of details still needed to be worked out. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will have a working plan of action and a clearer vision of what security guarantees can be given to Ukraine,\u201d he said of Sunday\u2019s meeting. \u201cFor us, security guarantees are confidence that the same things won\u2019t happen after this hot stage [is over].\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Zelenskyy said he had no direct contact with Trump since Friday\u2019s acrimonious meeting, but there had been communication between officials and he was \u201cprepared to continue the dialogue\u201d. He said he was ready for his ministers to sign a contentious deal to jointly exploit Ukraine\u2019s mineral rights with the US government, which he was supposed to do on Friday at the Oval Office.<\/p>\n<p>Zelenskyy also said it was important to meet the president face to face because there were too many mixed messages coming from the Trump administration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll of these structures are sending signals to each other. And I think it would be simpler to have more time for direct dialogue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know their tactics,\u201d he said, adding he did not want \u201csurprises\u201d in talks with the US.<\/p>\n<p>He said it was right to have a frank conversation with Trump, but blamed the \u201cabsolutely open\u201d format of Friday\u2019s talks, which were conducted in front of the media.<\/p>\n<p>Asked how long Ukraine could keep defending itself against Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion without more US military aid, Zelenskyy said Kyiv would \u201clike to hope for new assistance\u201d as well as the deliveries approved at the end of former president Joe Biden\u2019s administration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not beneficial to anyone should [the military aid] stop,\u201d he said, adding that \u201cwould be a help to [Russian President Vladimir] Putin exclusively\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/24357fd3-a839-4865-847f-c258933b159f\" 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