Czech President Petr Pavel condemned today what he said was the United States (US) exerting much greater pressure on Ukraine than on Russia, and assessed that US President Donald Trump is trying to negotiate peace at all costs, no matter how much it costs Ukraine and Europe.
"What is now on the table rather suggests an effort to make peace, any kind, so that Donald Trump can announce that he has managed to negotiate peace, no matter how favorable it may be for Ukraine and what consequences it may have for Europe," the Czech president said during a tour of the Hradec Králové Region in the east of the country.
He criticized Trump and his team for putting far more pressure on Ukraine, and warned that if Russia emerges from the war strengthened and convinced that aggression pays off, Europe can count on having "subscribed" to similar problems in the future.
"From the beginning, I have been of the opinion that compromise is necessary for peace. But it should not be an ultimatum to Ukraine and a reward for the aggressor. The peace that is agreed upon should be as fair as possible for Ukraine," said Pavel.
The Czech President also warned that if the peace agreement does contain some territorial concessions, they must not be permanent.
"If some territorial concessions are agreed upon, they could only be accepted as a temporary solution, not as a permanent legal approval of the situation so that the occupied territories become legitimately Russian," Pavel said.
He announced that he would meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the Three Seas Initiative summit in Warsaw early next week to discuss a possible peace compromise that would be acceptable to Ukraine and the need for ammunition and weapons.
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