Ukrainian President in the United Kingdom

Ukraine's president is in London for meetings with leaders from the UK, France and Germany. Fox News Radio's Jonathan Savage joins us to discuss the meeting and where things stand in peace negotiations between Ukraine and Russia. 

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is West Michigan's Morning News. Steve Kelly and Brett
Keita Schmidty back with us soon busy with clean up
in a lot of accidents as Inch two fell in
the last hour. President Trump says Russia has the upper
hand in peace negotiations and that President Zelensky needs to
start accepting things. Let's discuss the latest on those peace

(00:22):
efforts between Russia and Ukraine. Jonathan Savage in London with
Fox News Radio. Good morning, Jonathan.

Speaker 2 (00:29):
Hello, Good morning to you.

Speaker 1 (00:30):
So where do we stand as we hear President Zelensky
is in London to talk about his own peace negotiations.

Speaker 2 (00:37):
He was, He was here yesterday. He is really on
a bit of a whistle stop ter because he left
and went straight to Brussels to meet the NATO Secretary General.
But in London he was. I guess it was a
bit of astleary summit at Downing Street for some of
Euro's big leaders. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, the French
President in Mamo Macron, the German Chancellor Fredrick mart We're

(00:59):
all and then virtually arm in arm outside the black
door of Number ten Downing Street with Vladimir Zelenski try
to put up a really united front, because, as you said,
they're a new introduction. President Trump is putting pressure on
the Ukrainians to accept a deal that really they don't
want to. They don't want to give up any land

(01:19):
to Russia. They see this land as having been stolen
by Russia over the last four years and they don't
see why they should lose out at all. And that's
Russia should be punished.

Speaker 1 (01:29):
And Zelenski is saying he couldn't do it anyway constitutionally.
Is he standing on principle there?

Speaker 2 (01:35):
He says that we have no legal right to give
up territories our constitution or international law Ukrainian law, and
he says we don't have any moral rights either. What
he says is that any changes to Ukraine's borders would
need to be authorized by a public referendum. That's why
some people have been suggesting that there might be a
bit of a fudge in the offering here when it

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comes to negotiation, that Ukraine will would hold things at
the borders, they would promise not to try to take
back land by force, but instead they would try to
take back land by negotiation in the years to come.

Speaker 1 (02:09):
So a public referendum, meaning some sort of vote would
have to take place before they could accept the peace deal.

Speaker 2 (02:15):
Well, not before they've accept the peace deal, but before
any part of Ukraine could leave or join another country.

Speaker 1 (02:21):
Interesting, So where do we stand with what could happen
next and how far does this back things up?

Speaker 2 (02:28):
If it does well, President Lensky says he's going to
bring a revised peace plan to US negotiators. He's going
to present that to the White House. He says that
whereas the initial plan proposed by the US at twenty
eight points to it, that has been cut down to
twenty points. He says that no pro Ukrainian aspects have

(02:50):
been removed, though, as we're saying, no compromise on the
subject of territory. Another sensitive issue is the Zaparisian Nuclear
Power Plan, Europe's biggest nuclear power plant. It's in Ukraine,
but Russia has control over it at the moment. The
original version of the US back plan suggested that the
plant would be shared between Russia and Ukraine.

Speaker 1 (03:11):
That is Fox News Radios Jonathan Savage in London this morning.
Thank you for your time.

Speaker 2 (03:17):
Thank you