European heads of state and government rushed to Washington to be with Volodymyr Zelensky during his talks with Donald Trump about the price of peace in Ukraine. There is a fear that Trump and Putin have agreed on something that does not suit either the Ukrainians or the Europeans
Budućnost Ukrainians it could depend on a hastily convened meeting between the presidents of the US and Ukraine Donald Trump i Volodymyr Zelensky which will be held in the White House on Monday. Trump previously met with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin.
The leaders of Europe did not want to leave Zelensky alone at the mercy of the unpredictable and ultimatum-prone Trump, so European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, French President Emmanuel Macron, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, Italian Prime Minister Giorgio Meloni, Finnish President Alexandra Stuba, and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte headed to Washington as quickly as possible.
Europe wants to protect Ukraine
European leaders were excluded from Trump's summit with Russia's Putin last Friday in Alaska. They do not trust this resident of the White House and want to protect Ukraine from some unfavorable truce with Ruria that Trump could try to impose on Zelensky.
How that could be, was seen during the "scrubbing" of Zelensky in February in the Oval Office, when Trump criticized him for not showing enough gratitude for American military aid.
The meeting is also a test of US relations with its allies after the European Union and Great Britain accepted Trump's tariff hike, in part because they wanted his support for Ukraine.
"It is important that America agrees to cooperate with Europe in order to provide security guarantees for Ukraine, and therefore for all of Europe," Zelensky wrote on the X social network.
Trump: Crimea is Russian, nothing from Ukraine in NATO
However, the night before the meeting, Trump appeared to put the onus on Zelensky to agree to concessions and suggested that Ukraine could not reclaim Crimea, which Russia annexed in 2014.
"Ukraine President Zelensky can end the war with Russia almost immediately if he wants, or he can keep fighting," Trump wrote on social media Sunday night.
"Remember how it started. There is no return of Crimea that Obama handed over (12 years ago, without a shot being fired!), and NO ENTRY OF UKRAINE INTO NATO. Some things never change!!!", said Trump.
Apparently, Zelensky responded to that with his announcement late on Sunday:
"We all share a strong desire to end this war quickly and reliably," Zelensky wrote.
He added that "peace must be permanent" and not as it was after Russia annexed Crimea and part of the Donbass in eastern Ukraine eight years ago, which "Putin simply used as a springboard for a new attack."
Friday's meeting in Alaska provided possible contours for ending the war in Ukraine, although it was unclear whether the terms discussed would ultimately be acceptable to Zelensky or Putin.
After arriving in Washington, Zelensky wrote in another post on social networks that "we all equally want to end this war quickly and reliably, and the peace must be permanent."
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