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European leaders emphasized the importance of an energy truce.
President Volodymyr Zelensky held a conversation with his Finnish counterpart Alexander Stubb and Norway’s prime minister Jonas Gahr Støre, who today held telephone talks with Vladimir Putin. The Ukrainian president received a detailed briefing, he wrote in a post summarizing the conversation.
Zelensky expressed gratitude for the active support of diplomacy and joint peace efforts. Negotiations with the Russian president were held as a continuation of discussions in Oslo involving the US, NATO, and Europe.
“Alex and Jonas made it clear to the Russian leader that real de-escalation steps are needed regarding our energy sector and infrastructure. They discussed preparing a trilateral meeting, which is planned for November at the level of teams – Ukrainian, American, Russian. Finland and Norway, as countries bordering Russia, have a particular interest in sound and reliable security solutions. We also discussed various formats of our interaction with partners in Europe that could be useful for further supporting diplomacy, our defense, and collective security,” Volodymyr Zelensky said.
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27 October Stubb and Støre held a joint phone call with Putin. Previously, amid the full-scale war against Ukraine, the only direct contact with the Russian president had been by French leader Emmanuel Macron.
Ukraine has repeatedly stressed the importance of Europe’s presence at the negotiating table for peace. Russia and the US, during earlier attempts to agree on first steps toward peace, did not signal a willingness to involve Europeans.
Last week in Oslo there were talks between Zelensky, US special representative Steve Wittkoff, and the leaders of Norway and Finland, Støre and Stubb. Ukraine, European, NATO, and US representatives had planned to hold a new meeting in Brussels, but the plan was derailed by a change in American plans.
Trilateral negotiations between representatives of Ukraine, the US, and Russia are scheduled for November.
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