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EpaAt his meeting with US President Donald Trump at the White House on Monday, European leaders will join the White House.
Those traveling,-UK Prime Minister Sir Kire Starmer, French President Emmanuel Macron, President of the European Commission Ursul von der Leyen and NATO Secretary General Mark Ruth.
This happens after Trump was unable to reach a transaction to end the war in Ukraine during a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Friday.
Since then, the US president said he wanted to bypass the fire in Ukraine in favor of a permanent peace agreement.
Ensuring the ceasefire in Ukraine was one of Trump’s basic requirements before Putin’s meeting, but after that he outlined that they “often do not stand” and that it is better to “go directly to the peace agreement”.
European leaders responded with caution to the results of the Trump-Purven meeting, trying not to criticize the change in direction, despite their long-standing ceasefire.
Putin reportedly presented a peaceful proposal to Trump, which will require the abolition of Ukraine from the Donetsk Donbass region, in return for Russia to freeze advanced lines in Zaparitzhi and Kherson.
Russia claims that Donbass is as a Russian territory by the majority of Luhansk and about 70% of Donetsk. He also illegally annexed to the Crimean Peninsula in 2014, eight years before launching a full -scale invasion of Ukraine.
The BBC partner reports, citing diplomatic sources that European officials were concerned about Trump could try to press Zelensky to agree with the possible conditions discussed in Alaska when they meet on Monday.
The President of Ukraine has previously excluded control over the Donbass – consists of the regions of Luhansk and Donetsk – saying that it could be used as a bridgehead for future Russian attacks.
Von der Leyen, who meets with Zelensky in Brussels on Sunday, wrote on X, which to join Zelensky at the White House at the request of the Ukrainian president.
Macron, Rute, Sir Keir, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, President of Finnish Alexander Stub and Italian Prime Minister Georgia Meloni, which took place quickly.
Downing -Rate stated in a statement that he “follows that the Prime Minister who assesses President Trump’s efforts to end the illegal war in Russia in Ukraine, restoring his position that the path to peace cannot be taken without president Zelensky.”
The White House meeting on Monday will be the first with Zelensky after in February at the Oval Office in the Oval Office, when Trump told him to be more “grateful” for our support and accused him of “gambling with the Third World War” before the World Mass Media.
In the unprecedented scenes Zelensky ordered the White House to leave, but since then the European leaders have worked on the restoration of relations.
Both executives seemed to reconcile in April, in the fact that the White House called a “very productive” 15-minute meeting on the sidelines of Pope Francis.
Ukraine also signed a transaction with minerals that gave the US a financial share in the country, and Kyiv made it clear that they were ready to pay for the US weapons.
But on Friday in Kiev and other European capitals will be concerned after Trump-Purven meeting on Friday.
The Russian President, which threatens an international arrest warrant for alleged war crimes in Ukraine, abandoned the plane and a red carpet to warmly accepted Trump, which later said that they were “fantastic relations”.
Keta’s demand for Ukraine was a rapid ceasefire, so negotiations on a long -term settlement do not take place against the background of long fights.
Zelensky said that after the summit in Alaska, that “a real world should be reached, which will last, not just another pause between Russian invasions.”
The European leader has managed to maintain good relations with Trump since his return to the White House, with Sir Keir built a particularly warm relationship with the US president.
