Macron suggests that Ukraine truce may be weeks after conversations with Trump

French President Emmanuel Macron said a truce between Ukraine and Russia could be agreed in the coming weeks.

He spoke to Fox News in Washington after talking to Donald Trump in the White House on the third anniversary of Russia’s invasion.

The President of the United States, who suggested that the war could end “within weeks”, insisted that Europe should bear the costs and weights of each deal to maintain peace for Ukraine.

Macron said that every peace deal in Ukraine should “not be a transmission to Ukraine” and should be supported by security guarantees.

Trump’s arrival for a second term in the White House was “Changing the Game,” the French leader said.

He said he believed it was “possible” to talk about a truce in the war and the beginning of negotiations on sustainable peace within weeks.

Macron said he spoke with 30 other European leaders and allies and many of them are ready to be part of the security guarantees for Ukraine.

He, he said, works with British Prime Minister Sir Kayer Starmer on a suggestion to send troops to the region.

“Let’s not go to the front line, not to fit into a confrontation, but to be in some places, to be determined by the contract, as a presence to maintain this peace and our collective confidence with the backup of the United States,” Macron said.

Negotiations at the end of the fighting, he added, will cover “guarantees of security, land and territories”.

One of the best ways to secure an American commitment to Ukrainian sovereignty, he said, will be through a deal on critical minerals currently negotiated by Washington and Kiev.

In addition to Washington’s change at the global stage, a resolution obtained from the United States, which accepted a neutral conflict position, was adopted by the UN Security Council. It was supported by Russia, but with France and the United Kingdom.

At a joint press conference after his meeting with Macron on Monday, Trump did not mention security guarantees, but said the cost and weight to secure peace in Ukraine should be paid by European countries, not just the United States.

Macron replied that Europe understood the need for “more just sharing the weight of security” and added that the conversations on Monday showed a way forward.

Trump said he wanted fire to end as soon as possible, adding that he would visit Russia to meet with President Vladimir Putin after a person is agreed.

However, Macron pressed a more meaningful approach, including a truce and then a broader peaceful deal, which included clear guarantees for the protection of Ukraine in the long run.

“We want peace peacefully, but we don’t want an agreement that is weak,” he said.

However, the couple agreed that every peace transaction should include the deployment of European peacekeeping forces in Ukraine. This proposal was rejected directly by Russia.

“They will not be on the front lines. They will not be part of any conflict. They will be there to ensure that peace is being respected,” Macron said in the oval office.

Then Trump said Russian President Vladimir Putin would accept this. “I asked him this question specifically. He has no problem with him,” he said.

The French president has praised Trump’s efforts to commit to Putin in recent weeks, saying that there was a “good reason” for him to do so.

Trump refused to call Putin a “dictator” after using the term last week to describe the President of Ukraine.

“I don’t know when we’re going to talk,” Trump said. “At one point I will meet with President Putin.”

He also invited the President of Ukraine Volodimir Zelenski to the White House to make a deal to share some of the country’s natural resources. “He can come this week or next week,” Trump said. “I would like to meet him.”

Although there were no outdoor disagreements between Trump and Macron, the French president interrupted his US colleague in the oval office to repel his claim that the EU assistance to Ukraine is in the form of loans.

“No to be honest, we paid. We paid 60% of the common efforts,” Macron said.

“If you believe this, that’s good with me,” Trump replied.

Zelenski attended an event with global representatives in Kyiv where He said “we hope that we can finish this war this year.”

Other leaders, including the United Kingdom, Germany and Japan, spoke with a video connection. There was no representation in the US.

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier has addressed the recently warming relations between Moscow and Washington.

“Russia may have acquired an open ear in the White House, but they have not gained a centimeter of legitimacy,” he said.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen told the attendees: “We need to accelerate the delivery of weapons and ammunition.”

She said the war remains “the most central and subsequent crisis for the future of Europe.”

Also on Monday, US twice aside with Russia at UN Voices Related to the war in Ukraine.

For the first time, the two countries opposed a resolution set out to Europeans, condemned Moscow’s actions and supported the territorial integrity of Ukraine, which was eventually accepted by the UN General Assembly in New York.

Unga members supported the European resolution with 93 votes, but the US did not abstain, but in fact voted against it, with Russia, Israel, North Korea, Sudan, Belarus, Hungary and 11 other states.

The US and Russia then supported the resolution obtained from the United States at the UN Security Council, calling for end the conflict but did not contain criticism of Russia.

The security of the Security Council was adopted, but two key allies in the United States, the United Kingdom and France, restrained on the vote, after their attempts to change the wording were veto.

Meanwhile, the EU and the United Kingdom have passed a new range of sanctions against Russia on Monday. The EU sanctions, the 16th round, passed after the invasion of Russia, focused on the aluminum exports of Russia and its “shadow fleet” of ships, which is said to have used sanctions.

The United Kingdom sanctions are aimed at machine tools and electronics used by the military in Russia and the Minister of Defense of North Korea, which is allegedly responsible for the deployment of more than 11,000 soldiers in Russia to support war.