Zelensky and Witkoff hand in hand
Received in Oslo by Trump’s envoy, Zelensky asks for missiles, intelligence and satellites.
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On Tuesday in Oslo, Volodymyr Zelensky took Steve Witkoff in his arms. Donald Trump’s envoy, with Jared Kushner joining by video link, was handed the Ukrainian list: Patriot missiles whose deliveries keep slipping, a share of the intelligence Kyiv accused Washington of holding back, and the return of the Starlink and Starshield satellites. Zelensky says the intelligence is now flowing again.
Norway and Finland had arranged the meeting; Washington, for its part, is asking Ukraine to stop striking Russian refineries. That same evening, Witkoff flew to Moscow, where Vladimir Putin is waiting for him.
« behaved well with Kyiv and hasn’t done much »Donald Trump, on Russia, as quoted by RFI
A Yalta with no chair for Kyiv
The real meeting is being prepared elsewhere. On Monday, Trump said he was open to a summit with Xi Jinping and Putin, in Shenzhen in November, to talk less about Ukraine than about “denuclearisation”. In his view, Russia has “behaved well with Kyiv and hasn’t done much”. Pierre Haski, on France Inter, sees in it a Yalta for the 21st century.
In the Black Sea, NATO is stepping up its watch on drones off the Romanian coast. Europe keeps watch, Washington negotiates, Kyiv waits for winter. When the great powers share out the table, what is left for the one without a chair?
Based on Euronews, BBC World, Le Grand Continent, France Inter Géopolitique, RFI and Le Monde international