DEUTSCH  ​FRANÇAIS  ​ESPAÑOL​ ITALIANO​ NORSK ​SVENSKA ​УКРАЇНСЬКА 

To: The European Commission, the governments of European Union Member States, Norway and the United Kingdom

Ever since US president Trump’s “summits” last year with Putin (August 15) and European leaders (August 18) Ukraine has beeen confronting the appalling prospect of an unjust “peace” settlement that rewards the Russian aggressor.

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UPDATE (October 10, The Guardian):

"Trump says Ukraine needs a new leader after diesel deal with Russia

US president suggests Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, has not done enough to end war
 Donald Trump has said Ukraine needs “a new leader”, a day after making a deal with Vladimir Putin to buy large quantities of Russian diesel.

The US president suggested Volodymyr Zelenskyy has not done enough to end the war with Russia and blamed him for high diesel prices in the US.

“I suggest they get a new leader who can make a deal because he could have made many deals and for some reason he never does,” Trump said.

Trump made the comments as Russia launched deadly strikes on civilians in Ukraine, which Zelenskyy said were a “thanks” to Trump for the diesel deal.

The Ukrainian president has expressed outrage at the agreement announced by Trump on Friday, which the US president said was needed to reduce diesel prices, and comes ahead of November’s midterm elections in which fuel costs are a key voter issue.

  The deal, which appeared to blindside Kyiv as it was announced while Ukrainian negotiators were in Miami for peace talks, was described by Zelenskyy as a “gift” to Russia’s president.

He said Russia would use the money it raised from the fuel sales to invest in its war and that “any easing of sanctions” would play into Russia’s hands, “allowing it to kill more, wage war for longer”.

That prediction was realised hours later, when Ukrainian officials announced that a barrage of Russian strikes on the country’s south-east early on Saturday had killed 20 people, including three children."

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If this deal is forced on Ukraine, it will legitimise:

• The violent Russian occupation of a fifth of Ukrainian territory and the swap to Russia of territory and people presently under Ukrainian administration
• The destruction of Ukraine’s towns, schools, hospitals, infrastructure, environment and heritage
• The murder of tens of thousands of Ukrainian citizens and the kidnapping of thousands of Ukrainian children, and
• The genocidal Russification of the occupied territories, and a host of other war crimes. 

It will also place the burden of ending the war not on aggressor Russia but on Ukraine, its victim–even as the Putin regime steps up its bombardments of Ukraine’s cities and infrastructure.

We, the undersigned, therefore call on the European Union, the governments of its member states and of Norway and the United Kingdom to give full, unconditional support to Ukraine by immediately:

• Implementing full and rapid arming of Ukraine, in part sourced from a ban on arming aggressor states like Israel and Saudi Arabia.
• Helping Ukraine develop its own defence industry and find reliable non-US suppliers of equipment it still cannot manufacture.
• Cancelling (and not just suspending repayment of) the Ukrainian state’s foreign debts
• Transferring frozen Russian assets to Ukraine.
• Tightening sanctions on Putin’s regime and its supporting oligarchs, especially in banking and real estate.
• Shortening the European Union’s timetable for eliminating its dependence on Russian fossil fuels exports and imposing severe sanctions on firms that participate in this trade.
• Strengthening the European and global efforts for the safe return of all the kidnapped Ukrainian children, for the liberation and safe return of all Ukrainian civilian prisoners and the exchange of Prisoners of War
• Rigorously prosecuting Russian war crimes.
• Supporting Russian anti-war movements and anti-war activists imprisoned in the Russian Federation and the occupied territories.

LEAD SIGNATORIES

Tanya Vyhovsky, Senator for the Vermont Progressive Party, Vermont State Senate (US)
Christopher Ford, Secretary, Ukraine Solidarity Campaign (England and Wales)
Peter Cooper, Secretary, Ukraine Solidarity Campaign Scotland
Julie Ward, former Member of the European Parliament, Labour Party (UK)
Graham Campbell, Glasgow City Councilor for the Scottish National Party (Scotland)
Simon Pirani, Honorary Professor, University of Durham (UK)
Bernard Dreano, Chairperson of the Centre of International Solidarity Studies and Initiatives (France)
Carmen Claudin, Senior Researcher, Barcelona Institute of International Affairs (Spanish State)
Szymon Martys, Interim Coordinator, European Network for Solidarity with Ukraine (Poland)
Alfons Bech, Trade Union Coordinator, European Network for Solidarity with Ukraine (Spanish State)
Howie Hawkins, Ukraine Solidarity Network (US)
Sacha Ismail, Trade Union Liaison Officer, Ukraine Solidarity Campaign (England and Wales)
Maryann Abbs, Ukraine solidarity and climate justice activist (Canada)
Serhiy Kasianov, Board Member , Harvard Aerospace and Defense Alumni Organisation, Professional Government Association of Ukraine
Dr James Doughney, Emeritus Professor, Victoria University, Melbourne (Australia)
Thomas Weyts, Coordinator, Belgian Committee of the European Network for Solidarity with Ukraine 
David Acosta Guillerm, District councillor, Gràcia, Barcelona, for Barcelona en Comú (Spanish State)
Oksana Kozlova, Lecturer, School of Translation and Interpreting, Brussels Free University, European Network for Solidarity with Ukraine (Belgium)
John Andersson, Coordinator, Ukraine-Solidarity (Sweden)
John Meehan, Coordinator, Irish Left With Ukraine
Serhiy Onyshchenko, father, Ukrainian, Engineering Fellow at Exalate (Belgium)
Carme Sansa Albert, Catalan actor (Spanish State)
Frank Fourneau, Support Fund for Ukraine and Heart4Ukraine (Belgium)
Daniel Tanuro, ecosocialist writer and member of the Fourth International (Belgium)
Christian Zeller, Professor of Economic Geography, Editor, emanzipation - Zeitschrift für ökosozialistische Strategie (Austria).
Gauche anticapitaliste / SAP-Antikapitalisten (Belgium)
New Anticapitalist Party (France)
La Aurora (Marxist organisation (Spain)

Petition initiated by the European Network for Solidarity with Ukraine (ENSU), now part of the International Solidarity Network with Ukraine. 
For ENSU’s full position on “peace” negotiations see this statement.
For a full statement of the ENSU position on the Russian invasion of Ukraine and how to counter it see the Brussels Declaration.

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Contacts

Belgium: Solidarité Ukraine Belgique

Canada: Canadian Alliance for Solidarity with Ukraine
                 Alliance Canadienne pour la Solidarité avec l'Ukraine ​

                 Ukraine Solidarity Information

England and Wales:  Ukraine Solidarity Campaign

France: Comité français du réseau européen de solidarité avec l' Ukraine 

Germany: Right to Resist—Linke Ukraine-Solidarität Berlin

Ireland: Irish Left With Ukraine

Italy: Sinistra per l’Ucraina

Norway: ‘We who support the new left in Ukraine’ (short form VSU - VenstreSida i Ukraina )

Scotland: Ukraine Solidarity Campaign

Sweden: Ukraina-Solidaritet

Switzerland: Comité Ukraine-Suisse

United States: Ukraine Solidarity Network