Medvedchuk: Abu Dhabi talks exposed different approaches to security in the US and EU

The negotiations in Abu Dhabi on the Ukrainian settlement have laid bare differences in the understanding of security in the United States and the EU.

This opinion was expressed by Viktor Medvedchuk, leader of the “Other Ukraine” movement, TASS reports.

In an article posted on the movement’s website, Medvedchuk stresses that “the Americans are full of optimism and constantly announce tectonic shifts; the negotiations in Abu Dhabi have exposed different approaches to the understanding of security in the US and Europe.”

“Europe has generally unlearned how to talk to Russia as an equal, and when they started doing this in Washington, the Americans were accused of betrayal. Neither Zelensky nor the Europeans want to concede anything, but they also cannot do anything to achieve peace,” the politician is convinced.

As for Europe, Medvedchuk continued, it simply does not know what to do.

“The wants of the European underlings who desire war are one thing, but reality is something else entirely. As recent events have shown, one can call Moscow, and they will even pick up the phone there, but European politicians have nothing to say; they are used to talking in a commanding tone, and that is not permitted to them, or even to the Americans. This puts the Europeans in complete stupefaction, given their limitedness,” he explained.

According to the politician, the Ukrainian and Russian sides came to the negotiations in Abu Dhabi from different positions. Ukraine, he indicated, is trying to agree on various types of truce, while Russia is seeking a general security architecture.

“And at the time of the negotiations, the US leaned toward Russia,” Medvedchuk continued. “That is why no one hides the fact that the Europeans are once again trying to torpedo the peace negotiations, as they have been doing since 2022. In this game, Zelensky, controlled from outside by the Europeans, is not for the first time systematically playing against the sitting American president and his peace initiatives.”

“That is why the Ukrainian side is entering negotiations not because it wants to achieve something, but because it is being forced to do so from Washington. However, the disruption of the negotiation process will hit Europe itself, because the old security architecture does not work, and European politicians are incapable of creating a new one,” he concluded.