Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky and European leaders will meet Donald Trump in Washington on Monday to map out a peace deal amid fears the US president could try to pressure Kyiv into accepting a settlement favourable to Moscow.
After rolling out the red carpet for Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Friday, Trump said an agreement should be struck to end the 42-month-long war which has killed tens of thousands and displaced millions.
“President Zelensky of Ukraine can end the war with Russia almost immediately, if he wants to, or he can continue to fight,” Trump said on his Truth Social platform.
However, Zelensky has already all but rejected the outline of Putin’s proposals at that meeting. “Russia must end this war – the war it started. And I hope that our shared strength with America and with our European friends will compel Russia to real peace,” Zelensky said on the Telegram messaging app after arriving in Washington late on Sunday.
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Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskiy and European leaders will meet Donald Trump in Washington today to map out a peace deal amid fears the US president could try to pressure Kyiv into accepting a settlement favourable to Moscow.
The leaders of Britain, Germany, France, Italy, Finland, the European Union and NATO hope to shore up Zelensky at a crucial diplomatic moment in the war and prevent any repetition of the bad-tempered Oval Office encounter between Trump and Ukraine’s leader in February.
Trump will meet first with Zelensky at 1:15 pm Eastern Daylight Time (1715 GMT) in the Oval Office and then with all the European leaders together in the White House’s East Room at 3 pm EDT (1900 GMT), the White House said.
After rolling out the red carpet for Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Friday, Trump said an agreement should be struck to end the 42-month-long war which has killed tens of thousands and displaced millions.
“President Zelenskyy of Ukraine can end the war with Russia almost immediately, if he wants to, or he can continue to fight,” Trump said on his Truth Social platform, using an alternate transliteration of the Ukrainian leader’s name.
However, Zelensky has already all but rejected the outline of Putin’s proposals at that meeting, including for Ukraine to give up the rest of its eastern Donetsk region, of which it currently controls a quarter.
“We need real negotiations, which means we can start where the front line is now,” the Ukrainian leader said in Brussels yesterday, adding that his country’s constitution made it impossible for him to give away territory.
More concerning for him is the fact that Trump, who previously favoured Kyiv’s proposal for an immediate ceasefire to conduct deeper peace talks, reversed course after the summit and indicated support for Russia’s favoured approach of negotiating a comprehensive deal while fighting rumbles on.
“I am grateful to the President of the United States for the invitation. We all equally want to end this war swiftly and reliably,” Zelensky said on the Telegram messaging app after arriving in Washington late on Sunday. “Russia must end this war – the war it started. And I hope that our shared strength with America and with our European friends will compel Russia to real peace.”
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