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president Trump now says Ukraine will have a part in any peace negotiations to end the war with Russia after initially making notion of Ukraine or Europe in any talks president zilinski has warned world leaders against trusting the Russian president's claims of Readiness to end the three-year War tonight Donald Trump has said highlevel people from Russia America and Ukraine would be meeting at a security conference in Munich tomorrow though in the last few minutes Ukraine is now saying it is not planning talks with Russia at the conference from Ukraine here's our International editor Jeremy Bowen every

Flag represents a Ukrainian Soldier killed in the war with Russia a memorial created by their families here in the center of Kiev every photo is a life lost in the war that President Putin started which he now might have a big role in finishing since Donald Trump brought him back in from the cold all this is the reason why president Trump might find it hard to persuade or to bully the ukrainians to accept a bad deal for them a sense of sacrificed betray it's clear that President Putin is only interested in an agreement that amounts

to a Ukrainian capitulation in other words a surrender and it's not just about keeping the land that Russia has already taken it is about breaking Ukraine's capacity to act as is a Sovereign Nation far away in the White House in Washington Donald Trump did more photo opportunity diplomacy so far he's caused Delight in Moscow and consternation in keev so perhaps now he's trying to reassure ukrainians who fear he wants to decide their country's future in a one-on-one with Vladimir Putin we would have Ukraine would have Russia and we'll have other people involved too A lot

of people a lot of a lot of forks in the uh a lot of forks in this game I'll tell you what this is a very interesting situation but the Ukraine war has to end earlier in Brussels the US defense secretary arrived at a NATO meeting to pass on more of his president messages light on detail heavy on declarations only Trump the perfect deal maker can Bridge the yawning gap between Ukraine and Russia and Europe must spend more on defense this is Administration believes in alliances deeply believes in alliances but make no mistake president Trump

will not allow anyone to turn Uncle Sam into Uncle sucker this was key of the night before last a civilian killed and others wounded in a suburb hit by another Russian missile Ukraine's president wants to deter Russian attacks and invasions in the future by joining NATO which Trump and Putin have already ruled out at a nuclear plant president zalinski told journalists that he would refuse to accept any agreement made without Ukraine it is doubtful that Trump's off-the-cuff remarks in the Oval Office that he'd be included were very reassuring back in K Alexander Mesko an MP

from zelinsky's party told us Donald Trump might not have as much Leverage over Ukraine's president as he thinks he has isn't the brutal truth that you're losing the war and you maybe losing it slowly but without the Americans You' be in big trouble strategically we have won the war already because uh Russia failed to take ke within 3 days I believe that time is on our side this is the war ofri yes but uh the question is who will Outlast whom but if the Americans decide they're not going to give you any more weapons time

is not on your side is it I don't believe that Americans and Trump in particular will stop providing us Weaponry because if uh we uh fall or fail because of this it will be a huge stain on Trump's reputation and he's ambitious person he wants to go down in history as a very successful president as a winner not as Neville Chamberlin this is the hardest moment for Ukraine since the dark and desperate first months of the war tough choices like fly ahead well let's talk to Jeremy who's in ke and Donald Trump and his style

of diplomacy is is certainly leaving people reeling the question is is it going to work well Sophie the way it's supposed to work we are told is that uh as his people put it he is going to flood the Zone with these off-the-cuff remarks and it doesn't matter if they sound a bit incoherent sometimes because they're designed to keep all the parties off balance so when they're present Ed with a coherent proposal they grab it with both hands but you know what I don't think it's going to be quite as simple as that it's not

like an American domestic governmental dispute because what they're talking about is existence and here in Ukraine there are many people who are exhausted who are desperate to try to make sure that their sons do not end up getting killed at the front who don't want to fight but there were also all those and you saw that Memorial in my in my report who whose friends and family have been killed who continue to spill their blood and they do not want to be so sold down the river in Russia well I think Putin has always known

that if he loses this then it's not just curtains of his regime it might be curtains physically for him too but actually at the moment he feels he's winning I'm getting that very strongly from diplomatic sources in Western Europe that that is his belief and yeah he'll take a deal if it's something that gives him a shortcut to the victory that he thinks thinks is coming but he's in no mood to make any kind of concessions towards Ukraine so it could well be despite all of this Sophie that Donald Trump is a diplomatic Miracle Worker

or the other the other side of that is that this is a world in which old certainties are disappearing when there's a lot of trouble and instability and in fact this one therefore would continue