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Kyiv and its European allies demanded on Thursday (February 13) that they be included in any peace negotiations, after U.S. President Donald Trump spoke by phone with Russia&#x27;s Vladimir Putin and said Ukraine could neither have all of its land back nor join NATO.Russia&#x27;s financial markets soared and the price of Ukraine&#x27;s debt rose at the prospect of the first peace talks since the early months of Europe&#x27;s deadliest war since World War Two, soon to enter its fourth year.But Trump&#x27;s unilateral overture to Putin, accompanied by apparent concessions on Ukraine&#x27;s principal demands, raised alarm for both Kyiv and the European allies in NATO who said they feared the White House might make a deal without them.European officials took an exceptionally firm line in public towards Trump&#x27;s peace overture, saying any agreement would be impossible to implement unless they and the Ukrainians were included in negotiating it.A European diplomatic source said ministers had agreed to engage in a &quot;frank and demanding dialog&quot; with U.S. officials - some of the strongest language in the diplomatic lexicon - at the annual Munich Security Conference beginning on Friday (February 14).Trump, who made the first publicly acknowledged White House call with Putin since the February 2022 full-scale invasion, and then followed it up with a call to Zelenskiy, said he believed both men wanted peace.But the Trump administration also said openly for the first time that it was unrealistic for Ukraine to expect to return to its 2014 borders or join the NATO alliance as part of any agreement, and that no U.S. troops would join any security force in Ukraine that might be set up to guarantee a ceasefire.The Kremlin, for its part, said it was &quot;impressed&quot; by Trump&#x27;s position, which it contrasted with that of his predecessor Joe Biden.Russia seized Ukraine&#x27;s Crimea peninsula and its proxies captured territory in the east in 2014, before its full-scale invasion in 2022 when it captured more land in the east and south.Ukraine pushed Russian troops back from the outskirts of Kyiv and recaptured swathes of territory in 2022, but its outmanned and outgunned forces have slowly ceded more land since a failed Ukrainian counter-offensive in 2023.Relentless fighting has killed or injured hundreds of thousands of troops on both sides - there is no reliable death toll - and pulverised Ukrainian cities.Through years of fighting there has been no narrowing of positions on either side. Moscow demands Kyiv cede more land and be rendered permanently neutral in any peace deal; Kyiv says Russian troops must withdraw and it must win security guarantees equivalent to NATO membership to prevent future attacks.Ukrainian officials have acknowledged in the past that full NATO membership may be out of reach in the short term and that a hypothetical peace deal could leave some occupied land in Russian hands.But Kyiv and its European allies made clear they were alarmed by Trump having opened negotiations with apparent concessions to Moscow, without first agreeing a common position.<div>(Production: Vanessa Romeo, Vitalii Yalahuzian)</div>

Kyiv and its European allies demanded on Thursday (February 13) that they be included in any peace negotiations, after U.S. President Donald Trump spoke by phone with Russia's Vladimir Putin and said Ukraine could neither have all of its land back nor join NATO.

Kyiv and its European allies demanded on Thursday (February 13) that they be included in any peace negotiations, after U.S. President Donald Trump spoke by phone with Russia's Vladimir Putin and said Ukraine could neither have all of its land back nor join NATO.

EXPLAINER: What Trump’s Putin call means for Ukraine peace talks

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EXPLAINER: What Trump’s Putin call means for Ukraine peace talks

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Published February 17, 2025 02:22 PM PHT

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