European leaders to join Zelensky at White House meeting with Trump

European leaders said they would join Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at a meeting with US President Donald Trump in the White House on Monday.

Trump arrives after a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Friday after he could not reach the end of the war in Ukraine.

Since then, the US President said he wanted to provide a ceasefire in Ukraine in favor of a permanent peace agreement.

Sir Keir Starmer, British Prime Minister, French President Emmanuel Macron, Chancellor Friedrich Merz from Germany, Ursula von der Leyn and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte

Providing a ceasefire in Ukraine was one of Trump’s basic demands before meeting Putin, but then on social media, they would not be often continued “and” would be better to go to a direct peace agreement “.

European leaders carefully reacted to the outcome of the Trump-Putin meeting and tried not to criticize the change of direction, although it has been supported for the ceasefire for a long time.

Putin reportedly offered Trump a proposal for a peace proposal that required to withdraw from Donbas from Donetsk in exchange for the ice cream of Russia in Zaporizhzhia and Kherson.

Russia claims Donbas as most of Luhansk and about 70% of Donetsk as the Russian region. In addition, eight years before the initiative of Ukraine’s full -scale occupation, he annexed the Crimean Peninsula illegally in 2014.

The President of the Ukraine excluded Donbas’s control control of Luhansk and Donetsk regions – he said he could be used as a jumpboard for future Russian attacks.

On Sunday, Trump’s special ambassador Steve Witkoff said that Putin would have accepted that in Alaska, the United States would provide Ukraine to Ukraine “sound security guarantees that I will define as a game change”.

Witkoff said that the CNN negotiations in Alaska have reached an agreement that “Article 5, 5 -like language to meet a security guarantee of the US and other European countries.”

Article 5 of NATO states that an attack on a member is accepted as an attack on everyone.

Putin opposed to NATO in Ukraine, and Witkoff said, “If Ukrainians can live with this,” this arrangement may be an alternative.

Witkoff also said that Russia “made some concessions on the table” about the region.

Donetsk said that the region will be tomorrow “important discussion” he added.

BBC’s US partner CBS, diplomatic sources, European authorities, Trump’s Alaska’daki Russia to accept the terms discussed with Zelensky’ye said.

Von der leyen met Zelensky in Brussels on Sunday. At a subsequent press conference, he said that any peace agreement should include security guarantees for Ukraine and Europe and that international borders cannot be forcibly changed.

“These are only decisions to be made by Ukraine and Ukraine.” He said. “These decisions should not be taken on the table without Ukraine.”

Zelensky reiterated that the Ukrainian Constitution made Russia impossible to accept the region and that the issue should be discussed only by the leaders of Ukraine and Russian at a tripartite summit.

The Ukrainian leader repeated the need for a ceasefire before working quickly on the “last agreement”.

The White House meeting on Monday said that Zelensky has been saying that Trump was more “grateful” to support us since a ruthless public stock exchange in the Oval Office in February and accused him of “gambling with the Third World War”.

Zelensky was told to leave the White House.

In April, he agreed with Trump in April, when he described the White House as a “very productive” meeting before attending Pope Francis’s funeral.

Ukraine also signed a mineral agreement that gives the United States a financial share in the country, and Kiev made it clear that they are willing to pay for the US branches.

However, after the Trump-Putin meeting on Friday, there will be concern in Kyiv and other European capitals.

The Russian President, who faced an international Criminal Court’s arrest warrant for alleged war crimes in Ukraine, came out of his jet to be taken warmly by Trump, who later said that it was a “fantastic relationship” and on a red carpet.