US envoys head to meet Zelensky after talks with Putin in Moscow– www.bbc.co.uk
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But at the core of this week’s talks has been the issue of European security architecture. Earlier Kushner said the US hoped to “create a new framework” of security between Ukraine, Russia and Europe that could “secure lasting peace”, while Kremlin aide Yury Ushakov said it was “clear that the current system does not work.”
Ukraine and Europe have long been concerned about the current US administration’s commitment to European security and its softening towards the Kremlin and that decisions about their continent could be made without them.
Zelensky said he found the US approach of discussing a new European security order with Russia “a bit strange”.
“It is a significant shift in the US position that the US has now taken on board the Russian demand that the European security architecture needs to be discussed and agreed upon in parallel with the Ukraine peace talks,” said the Director of the Estonian Foreign Policy Institute Kristi Raik.
She said the Russians have a “long history” of wanting to revise European security architecture, intended as core principles “like sovereignty, territorial integrity, the principle that there is no use of force to some conflicts”.
