Zelenskyy’s European ‘bodyguards’: which leaders will join Trump talks in Washington? | Ukraine
European leaders come to Washington on Monday before Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with Donald Trump at the Oval Office in a support for the President of Ukraine. Trump is among the expectations that Trump will try to force Zelenskyy to accept a pro -Russian “peace plan ına that will include the delivery of Kiev to Moscow. Europeans It was defined as Zelenskyy’s “guards”With the new memories of Mauling he bought in February during the last oval office visit. So who?
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Mark Rutte
NATO Secretary General
Rutte has a proven record that some allies are proud to be proud of strategic purposes using the language they are ugly. In June, at the NATO Summit, he referred to a capricious US president as a “father .. Rutte has repeatedly praised Trump, including a recent interview with Fox News, and led him to spend 3.5% of NATO members to spend for defense. The United States carried the burden of European security for a very long time, Rutte Rutte – Music in Trump’s ears.
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Ursula von der leyen
President of the European Commission
Von der leyen is a loyal supporter of Ukraine, which supports Kyiv’s EU membership. For Trump, it reminds us of the unified importance of Europe as an economic block. Three weeks ago, the United States made a trade agreement with the EU and Trump greeted the relationship as “the largest trade partnership in the world”. On Sunday, he hosted Zelenskyy in Brussels. He said that after a dismissed Ukraine, Ukraine should be a oluşmış steel hedgehog that cannot be digested for potential invaders ”without any limit in the armed forces.
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Keir Starmer
Starmer, Trump, carried out an act of balancing when it comes to, and kept him with him while defending Ukraine. So far, this tactic worked. Despite Starmer’s “liberal” perspective, the US President came out of his own way to emphasize good relations. There is an incentive for both men to protect this relationship before Trump’s visit to England next month. In the meantime, Starmer and Zelenskyy, Zelenskyy’s previous disaster oval office meeting, and again last week again in February, except for the Downing Street, developed a warm personal relationship. The Prime Minister emphasizes the regional integrity that contradicts Trump’s “peace agreement olan, which includes Russia’s taking more Ukrainian territory.
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Alexander Stubb
STUBB represents a small European state, but it will be in Washington because he managed to establish an unexpected warm relationship with Trump. Finland leader, on the advice of Republican Senator Lindsey Graham on the advice of Trump for a tour with Trump, has developed access to the US president by polishing rusty golf skills before a trip to Florida. Stubb’s message to Green: You cannot trust Vladimir Putin. Finland sees parallels between the situation of Ukraine and its history, invaded the Soviet Union in 1939 and said he needed the Finnish zone.
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Emmanuel Macron
Macron combines French economic and military influence with Trump, who symbolizes intense handshakes with a proven ability to continue. Macron, who pioneered Russia’s 2022 invasion, flew to Moscow to reason with Putin. Since then, the key diplomatic ally for Ukraine. When asked if Putin wanted a real peace agreement on Sunday, Macron replied, “No”. The Minister said that Ukraine needed a strong army and needed security guarantees if a permanent solution is provided. French President Trump will want to persuade Trump against a non -starter start to stop the war and against long -term security interests of Ukraine and Europe.
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Friedrich Merz
Merz has cut a definite figure on the world stage since he took office in May, and he has largely kept himself on an oval office face with Trump throughout the summer. Merz’s slow -moving predecessor Olaf Scholz and Zelenskyy, who often disappointed, appeared as an important partner. Berlin penetrates as a pillar of the French-German axis in the heart of the EU. He is also a great financial donor for Kyiv. Merz’s task in Oval Office is to rush and persuade Trump not to behave in a hurry and not to behave at the heads of Ukrainians and Europeans.
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Giorgia Meloni
Meloni left his holiday to fly to Washington, a sign that Trump’s Russian -friendly “peace plan” pointed to a moment of danger for Europe. At the Oval Office meeting, the Europe, which Trump considers as friends, will be a useful bridge as an extreme right leader. Meloni spent time in the US President Florida House Mar-a-Lago and was the only European leader invited to open in January. It also strongly supports Kyiv’s sovereignty. In July, Russia’s war in Rome ended in a Ukrainian rescue conference designed to help the country’s reconstruction of the country.
