European leaders to join Zelenski at the White House meeting with Trump

European leaders have said they will join Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelenski at his meeting with US President Donald Trump in the White House on Monday.

Travelers include the United Kingdom Prime Minister Sir Kyar Starmer, French President Emmanuel Macron, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and NATO Secretary General Mark Rute.

This comes after Trump failed to reach a deal 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 wants to circumvent the ceasefire in Ukraine in favor of a constant peace agreement.

Ensuring cessation in Ukraine was one of Trump’s main demands before meeting Putin, but then he published on social media that they “often do not stay” and that it would be better to “go directly to a peace agreement”.

European leaders responded with caution to the result of the Trump-Putin meeting, striving not to criticize the change of direction, despite their many years of support to end the fire.

Putin has been reported to have presented a Peace proposal to Trump, which will require Ukraine to withdraw from the Donetsk region in Donbass, in return for Russia by freezing the front lines in the platform and Herson.

Russia claims that Donbass, as a Russian territory, controlling the bigger part of Luhansk and about 70% of Donetsk. He also illegally annexed the Crimean Peninsula in 2014, eight years before his full -scale invasion of Ukraine began.

The BBC CBS US partner has announced, citing diplomatic sources that European employees have been concerned that Trump may try to press Zelenski to agree to the possible conditions discussed in Alaska when they meet on Monday.

The President of Ukraine earlier excluded Donna’s control, made up of the regions of Luhanski and Donetsk – saying that it could be used as a springboard for future Russian attacks.

Von der Leyen met with Zelenski in Brussels on Sunday. At a press conference, von der Leyen then said that every peace transaction should include security guarantees for Ukraine and Europe and that international borders cannot be changed by force.

“These are decisions that should only be made from Ukraine and Ukraine,” she said. “These decisions should not be made without Ukraine in the table.”

Zelenski reiterated that the Ukrainian constitution makes it impossible to recognize the territory of Russia and that the issue should be discussed only by the leaders of Ukraine and Russia at a tripartite summit.

The Ukrainian leader repeated the need to end the fire before working quickly on a “final deal”.

Von der Leyen will join the Ukrainian President of the White House on Monday. Macron, Rute, Sir Keyer, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, Finnish President Alexander Stub and Italian Prime Minister Georgy Meloni will also be present.

The White House meeting on Monday will be the first of Zelenski after the Astratian public exchange in the oval cabinet in February, when Trump told him to be more “grateful” for supporting the United States and accused him of Gambling with the Third World War.

At that time, Zelenski was told to leave the White House.

He seemed to be reconciled to Trump in April, in what the White House described as a “very productive” 15-minute meeting before they were at the funeral of Pope Francis.

Ukraine also signed a mineral deal, which gave the US a financial share in the country, and Kiev made it clear that they were ready to pay for the United States.

But in Kiev and other European capitals there will be concerns after the Trump-Putin meeting on Friday.

The Russian president, who is brought before an international criminal court for arrest of alleged war crimes in Ukraine, gave way to his aircraft and on a red carpet to be warmly accepted by Trump, who later stated that they had a “fantastic relationship”.