DISINFO: The EU and the UK are preventing Zelenskyy from signing a peace treaty
SUMMARY
Trump warned Zelenskyy that over time, Ukraine's chances in the negotiation process would diminish and territorial losses would increase. He proposed signing the agreement at the right time, but Zelenskyy is stubborn.
Not because it's a specific strategy or because he wants to resolve certain issues in Ukraine's favour, but simply because he's being prevented from signing the peace treaty. Those are the forces that have no interest in ending the hostilities. This primarily refers to the European Union and the United Kingdom.
RESPONSE
Recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative claiming that Ukraine's Western allies do not want peace, portraying President Zelenskyy as a puppet of the EU and UK. Read a similar case claiming that The curators in Washington and London prohibit Kyiv from concluding peace.
This disinformation story is part of a wider disinformation campaign portraying Europe as a warmongering actor who intends to continue the war in Ukraine even as other actors carry out peace negotiations.
This campaign, which accelerated after the second Trump Administration expressed interest in negotiating directly with Russia in early 2025, also aims to exacerbate tensions between Transatlantic allies by framing the EU as desperate to continue the war for its own spurious interests, in contrast to supposedly “peace-oriented” actors such as the US or Russia.
The claim that the EU and the UK are "preventing" Ukraine from signing a peace treaty is manipulative and false. It is based on ignoring Ukraine's sovereignty and aimed at undermining trust in European partners and justifying continued Russian aggression.
The EU and the UK officials have repeatedly stated that it is up to Ukraine only, as the victim of Russia’s aggression, to decide when peace talks with Russia may be possible and in which terms to end the war. Also, that any lasting peace must ensure Ukraine’s sovereignty and security, and Ukraine must be at the negotiation table.
See more cases: The West is interested in continuing the war; Macron’s statement on sending EU troops to Ukraine is only prolonging Ukraine's agony; The West is not interested in peace; The West ordered Ukraine to refuse peace talks; Ukraine and the US don't need peace; The peace summit is another manifestation of Anglo-Saxons' and their Ukrainian puppets' fraud; Kyiv and the West do not think about peace because they need war.