The European leaders appeared to be alertly optimistic after a virtual meeting with Donald Trump on Wednesday, two days before he met his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Alaska to discuss the war in Ukraine.
Trump allegedly told the Europeans that his goal for the summit was to achieve a ceasefire between Moscow and Kiev.
He also agreed that according to Emmanuel Macron of France, any regional issues were to be decided with the involvement of Volodimier Zelansky, and the security guarantee was to be part of the deal.
Talking to Trump allowed him to “clarify his intentions” and Europeans were given the opportunity to express our expectations “,” Macron said.
Trump and Vice President JD Vance spoke to leaders from the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Finland and Poland as well as Mark Rooty, the head of the European Union, Ursula von Der Leyen and NATO.
Europeans have been sidelined in a hasty summit in Alaska in a hasty summit and today their phone call was a final attempt to keep Ukraine’s interests and the security of the continent in Trump’s mind.
To an extent, it seemed to work. On Wednesday evening, Trump evaluated the meeting “A Ten” and said Russia would face “very serious” consequences until he stopped his war in Ukraine.
He also said that if Friday’s meeting is good, he will organize “Quick Second” by incorporating both Putin and Zelancesi.
Nevertheless, in his statements, European leaders restored the need to join Kiev in any final decision – cheating an underlying nervousness that Putin could eventually persuade Trump to accept Ukrainian land in exchange for a ceasefire.
Poland’s Donald Tusk said, “It is most important that Europe assures Donald Trump that no one can trust Russia.”
If the Russian side refused to give any concession, “then the United States and we should increase the pressure of Europeans,” Mars said.
Since the US-Russia Summit was announced last week, Trump has given several references to “land-swapping” between Kiev and Moscow-Increasing serious concerns in Ukraine and beyond that he can prepare to give a long demand to seize the large swath of Putin’s Ukrainian region.
On Wednesday morning, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexi Fedeve reiterated that in June 2024, Putin had not changed Russia since setting it.
Putin said that a ceasefire would begin the minute when the Ukrainian government withdrew from four areas partially occupied by Russia – Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhia. He also said that Ukraine would need to officially give up in his efforts to join the NATO Military Alliance.
These maximalists are demands that neither see Kiev nor its European partners as viable.
Zelansky has said that it is confident that Russia would use any area that was allowed to be kept as a springboard for future attacks.
A way to combat this danger can be a safety guarantee – aimed at ensuring the long -term defense of Ukraine as commitments.
In statements released after a phone call with Trump, several European leaders said that such a guarantee was mentioned and the UK Prime Minister Kir Stmper said “real progress” was made in that regard.
Since spring, the UK and France are trying to create a so -called “interested” – a group of nations promised to stop Russia from attacking Ukraine.
On Wednesday, the group stated that it stood “ready to play an active role”, which was included by deploying “enmity once hostility has stopped” – although the size, composition and role of such force is not yet clear.
Meanwhile, on the lines of the front, the summer of Russia continues to press on aggressive. Referring to the sudden advance of Moscow soldiers near Dobropilya, in the Donnetsk region, Zelancesi said that Putin was showing that the restrictions in damaging the Russian economy were not effective.
The President of Ukrainian said, “I told Trump and our European colleagues that Putin is being inflated.”
For his share, Trump admitted that even when he meets Putin, he may not be able to stop him from killing citizens in Ukraine.
“I have a conversation with him … but then I go home and see that a rocket has hit a nursing home or an apartment building and people are lying dead on the road.
“So I think there is probably no answer.”
