(28 Mar 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Kyiv, Ukraine – 28 March 2025
1. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Ukrainian President:
"We have also reached agreements with partners from some countries, I will not specify them, about the expansion, and this is a European initiative, about expanding Ukraine’s access to intelligence, on access to relevant technologies and satellites that our European colleagues have. Then we agreed with some leaders about Ukraine’s access to their ammunition depots. We have agreed on licenses for production, air defense, and we will also work on licenses for some types of artillery."
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2. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Ukrainian President:
"We have agreed to hold a meeting in Ukraine within a week in a narrow circle of representatives of the headquarters of the key countries, and so far a very narrow circle of the key countries that will be absolutely ready to send a contingent to Ukraine. Not all of them will come at first. We will invite a narrow circle. France, Britain and Ukraine will definitely be there. This is, let’s say, a triangle in this matter: we will show our infrastructure, work with partners, and work on our common vision. After that, we agreed that a meeting would immediately follow, not at the military level, but at the level of NSA, National Security Advisors."
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3. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Ukrainian President:
"It has become known to us that the American side held consultations internally, and then consultations with both Saudi Arabia and Turkey, and also with some European countries, about their readiness to conduct monitoring. I don’t know the results of these conversations, and so far our American partners have not told us about this, but they have voiced it, and we have voiced it to them, that without monitoring nothing will work."
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STORYLINE:
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Friday that Ukraine has reached agreements with some EU countries on "expanding Ukraine’s access to intelligence" and on giving Ukraine access to "relevant technologies and satellites."
Zelenskyy did not disclose which EU countries became a part of the agreement, but confirmed "France, Britain and Ukraine will definitely be there" speaking about a meeting to be held in Ukraine "within the week."
"This is, let’s say, a triangle in this matter: we will show our infrastructure, work with partners, and work on our common vision. After that, we agreed that a meeting would immediately follow, not at the military level, but at the level of NSA, National Security Advisors," he added.
Speaking at a press conference in Kyiv, Ukrainian leader also said there is "a very narrow circle of the key countries that will be absolutely ready to send a contingent to Ukraine."
Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed early Friday to temporarily put Ukraine under external governance as part of efforts to reach a peaceful settlement, in remarks that reflected the Kremlin leader’s determination to achieve his war goals.
Putin’s remarks came hours after the conclusion of a summit hosted by French President Emmanuel Macron that considered plans to deploy troops to Ukraine to cement an eventual peace deal. Macron said “several” other nations want to be part of the force alongside France and Britain.
Russia has warned it wouldn’t accept any troops from NATO members as part of a prospective peacekeeping force.
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