Zelensky-Trump meeting: European leaders to join the Ukraine president in Washington for conversations

The acquisition of a continent ceasefire has taken among the European leaders at the center, as they will join Washington on August 17 at Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, and according to an AFP report, to strive to strive with talks with US President Donald Trump. This comes after Donald Trump excluded any immediate breakthrough over a ceasefire in Ukraine after holding a summit in Alaska with Russian President Vladimir Putin, who did not include Ukraine or other European countries, he added. The peace agreement was a core issue before the summit. Ukraine, allies criticize the stop of the ceasefire, the AFP report added that Ukraine and its European allies have criticized the pause over ceasefire talks as a way to buy time and make the advances of Russia’s battlefield possible. Among those who expressed their dissatisfaction are the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, and others. Von der Leyen, posted on social media platform X (formerly Twitter), said she will welcome Zelensky on August 16 for a meeting in Brussels. The event will also see participation from other European leaders, who will then join the Ukrainian leader on his journey to the US, at his “request”. This was confirmed by the German government, which states that Merz is one of the European contingent to Washington, which will try to emphasize “interest in a rapid peace agreement in Ukraine. Furthermore, the Finland government also confirmed that its president, Alexander Stubb, would be under the crew. “No ceasefire will move directly to peace agreement”? In a post on Truth Social, Donald Trump wrote that ceasefire agreements “often do not stop”. The report added that after the meeting with Putin, Zelensky and other European leaders, Donald Trump informed that “it was determined by everything that the best way to end the horrific war between Russia and Ukraine is directly to go directly to a peace agreement that would end the war.” However, Zelensky looked unconvincing and placed on X that this development “complicates the situation” and that if Moscow does not “carry out a simple order to stop the strikes, it can make a lot of effort to get Russia to implement the will – peacefully – peacefully with its neighbors for decades”. What are Russia’s demands for peace agreement? An official told AFP that Donald Trump expanded the support for Putin’s proposal to Zelensky and the other European leaders. The question includes: full control of two largely Russian Ukrainian regions in exchange for the freezing point of the front line in two others. Putin “De facto demands that the Ukraine leave Donbas”, an area consisting of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions in the east of Ukraine, added the source. In return, the Russian forces would stop their offensive in the Black Sea Port region of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia in southern Ukraine, where the most important cities are still under Ukrainian control. Now focus on Zelensky back in the White House. The most important diplomatic focus is now switching to Zelensky’s talks in the White House on August 17. The last time he was in the Oval Office in February, the meeting ended in an extraordinary scream, with Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance in public that Zelensky was not enough gratitude for us. In an interview with Broadcaster Fox News After sitting with Putin, the US president suggested that the onus was now on Zelensky to secure a peace agreement as they work on an ultimate trilateral summit with Putin. “It’s really up to President Zelensky to get it right,” Donald Trump said. European pressure for truce to continue in an earlier statement, European leaders welcomed the plan for a Trump-Putin-Zelensky summit, but added that they would maintain pressure on Russia in the absence of a ceasefire. Meanwhile, the conflict in Ukraine raged, with both Kyiv and Moscow launching attack drones on August 16 on August 16. Putin said his summit with Trump was “timely” and “very useful”. In his statement after the summer in Alaska, Putin warned Ukraine and European countries not to participate in any “behind-the-scenes intrigues” that could disrupt those he “disrupts this rising progress”. (With input of AFP)