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European capitals responded with shock and warning in both the European Union and Kiev, which was cut from the talks to end the war in Ukraine.

US President Donald Trump’s unexpected decision to start the immediate bilateral peace talks with Vladimir Putin, Russia, has led to the deepest conditions of the continent about the conditions of any deal – and they will have to pay the price of reconstruction and security after the war.

Germany

Defense Secretary Boris Pisorius expressed his regret that Washington had made concessions to Moscow before negotiations with Kiev started.

“The results of the negotiation will still be unclear. It is unfortunate.” Pistorius said before a meeting of NATO defense ministers in Brussels: “Trump has already made public concessions to Putin before the negotiations started.” In Ukraine first at the negotiating table. “

He warned that he would be “naive” to believe that the threat from Moscow would give up the peace agreement.

His colleague in the Council of Ministers, Foreign Minister Analina Perbuk, admitted that Trump Putin’s decision “came out of the blue color.”

“The Americans send very different signals. This means that we need to speak to the Americans and we explain at this stage that not only by Atlantic security, but also the position of the United States in the world is determined on this decisive issue.”

European Union

The European Union Security Commissioner has insisted on the fact that Europe and Ukraine should be part of the peace talks.

“It is important that when we enter peace negotiations, Europe and Ukraine play a decisive and central role there,” she told the Financial Times. For Europe, of course, the United States is a very important ally when it comes to this. . . Security and defense. But they now have a new administration and we are dealing with them now. “

NATO

NATO Secretary -General Mark Retty said it is very important that “Ukraine is closely involved in everything that happens in Ukraine.”

“It is very important that everything that comes out of these [peace] Talks, they are durable, they are permanent. “

UK

Defense Secretary John Healy chanted the request to be Kyiv in the center of any negotiations.

Stressing that “Russia is still a threat beyond Ukraine,” Healy said: “There can be no negotiations on Ukraine without Ukraine – and Ukraine should be in the heart of any talks.”

He added: “It is our job as ministers to defend here in NATO to put them in the best position to secure a permanent peace through strength.”

France

Defense Minister Sebastian Likorno said that “peace through weakness” was the wrong approach, as he defended the NATO talisman from “peace through power.”

Lithuania

If the United States and the European Union are not able to work together as a team [a] Dofili šakalienė said that the democratic world will be the darkest time since World War II.

Poland

Prime Minister Donald Tusk wrote on social media that to achieve a “fair peace” in the conflict “Ukraine, Europe and the United States should work to do so together.

Spain

“It is more important than ever. Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albaris told FT:” The Europeans have a common understanding of what is going on. ”

He added: “It is fair to say that nothing can be agreed on European security without Europe.” “We do not believe that anything should be determined about Ukraine without Ukraine.”

Italy

Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said that it is “very important” that “the United States and Russia” “are back to speak at the highest level,” but said that Europe should participate in talks.

He said that the general goal must be “a fair and permanent peace that does not erase the logical basis of Ukraine, an agreement that does not represent a temporary truce but it re -establishs rules and defines conditions to prevent wars or new aggression.”

The reports of Henry Foy, Parbra Mines in Brussels, Ann Silvin Chasani, Laura Beetle in Berlin, Lucy Fisher in London, Amy Kazmen in Rome, Richard Millen in Oslo, and Rafiera Mender in Warsaw.