\n Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday blasted the EU's lack of \"political will\" in countering Russian leader Vladimir Putin, in a fiery address criticising some of Kyiv's top allies at the World Economic Forum.\n<\/p>\n
\n The speech to the Davos elite came minutes after Zelensky had met with US President Donald Trump, a conversation he said had brought agreement about what post-war US security guarantees for Ukraine would look like.\n<\/p>\n
\n Zelensky did not say what they included, only that they were \"done\" and were ready to be signed by the leaders and ratified by the Ukrainian parliament and US Congress.\n<\/p>\n
\n But in a marked departure from his usual warm rhetoric towards the European Union, Kyiv's main political and financial backers, Zelensky slammed what he cast as inaction.\n<\/p>\n
\n \"What's missing: time or political will?\" he said at one point, referencing delays over the establishment of a European war crimes tribunal on the Russian invasion.\n<\/p>\n
\n He also said Europe, without mentioning any single country, was failing to agree on how to address global problems.\n<\/p>\n
\n \"There are endless internal arguments and things left unsaid that stop Europe from uniting and speaking honestly enough to find real solutions,\" Zelensky told the forum.\n<\/p>\n
\n \"Instead of becoming a truly global power, Europe remains a beautiful but fragmented kaleidoscope of small and middle powers,\" he added.\n<\/p>\n
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\n \"Europe looks lost trying to convince the US President to change,\" said Zelensky.\n<\/p>\n
\n \"But he will not change. President Trump loves who he is, and he says he loves Europe, but he will not listen to this kind of Europe,\" he said.\n<\/p>\n
\n Trump had hailed a \"good\" meeting with Zelensky in the Swiss ski resort, hours before his envoy Steve Witkoff and son-in-law Jared Kushner were due in Moscow for talks with Putin.\n<\/p>\n
\n \"This war has to end,\" Trump told reporters including AFP when asked what message he was sending to the Russian leader.\n<\/p>\n
\n Zelensky said the question of territory was the one outstanding issue in the talks to find an end to the war.\n<\/p>\n
\n \"It's all about the eastern part of our country. It's all about the land. This is the issue which we (have) not solved yet.\"\n<\/p>\n
\n He also said the United Arab Emirates would host \"trilateral\" talks on the Ukraine war Friday and Saturday with Ukrainian, US and Russian negotiators.\n<\/p>\n
\n \"It will be the first trilateral meeting in the Emirates,\" said Zelensky, without elaborating on the format of the talks.\n<\/p>\n
\n \"Russians have to be ready for compromises,\" he added.\n<\/p>\n
\n Russia, which occupies around 20 percent of Ukraine, is pushing for full control of the country's eastern Donbas region as part of a deal -- but Kyiv has warned ceding ground will embolden Moscow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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