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Zelenskyy urges 200,000 European peacekeepers to secure Ukraine, seeks Trump meeting; rejects Russian military demands and calls for stronger EU defense policy at Davos.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who is seeking a meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump, said on Tuesday that a contingent of at least 200,000 European peacekeepers would be needed as part of any settlement to end the conflict with Russia.
The Ukrainian leader, speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland a day after Trump returned to power following months of promises to end the war in Ukraine quickly, also urged European leaders to do more to defend the continent.
The prospect of a rapid settlement has focused minds in Kyiv and Europe on the urgent need for security guarantees to prevent any future Russian attack, with the idea of peacekeeping contingent force circulating.
"From all the Europeans? 200,000, it's a minimum. It's a minimum, otherwise it's nothing," Zelenskyy said when asked about the idea of a peacekeeping mission on an interview panel after delivering his speech.
Zelenskyy said Ukraine was working to set up a meeting between him and Trump. "The teams have been working on a meeting, they are currently in the process," he said about those efforts.
Trump, who returned to office on Monday, has said he will stop the war in Ukraine swiftly, without saying how.
Zelenskyy said Ukraine would not agree to Russian demands that it drastically reduce the size of its military, predicting that Russian President Vladimir Putin would demand Ukraine cut its armed forces to a fifth of their size.
"This is what he wants. We will not allow this to happen," Zelenskyy said.
In his speech, Zelenskyy said Europe must make itself a strong global player, able to guarantee peace and security for itself and for others. He suggested Europe had less influence over Washington because the United States viewed its allies' contribution to security as lacking.
"Does anyone in the United States worry that Europe might abandon them someday – might stop being their ally? The answer is no," Zelenskyy said.
He said that Europeans needed to devise a united security and defence policy and alluded to a pre-inauguration remark by Trump, who proposed a massive hike in defence spending for NATO members to 5% of GDP.
"If it takes 5% of GDP to cover defence, then so be it, 5% it is. And there is no need to play with people's emotions that defence should be compensated at the expense of medicine or pensions – that's not fair," Zelenskyy said.
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