European Union leaders to meet before Trump Putin’s meeting on Ukraine

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European leaders will hold consultations on Ukraine with Donald Trump before the US President’s meeting with Russian leader Vladimir Putin, as they seek to form talks that could determine the continent’s long -term security.

Germany held a virtual meeting on Wednesday to discuss ways to exercise more pressure on Moscow before the US -led pivotal talks in Alaska on Friday about how to end the Russian war for three years in UkraineAccording to a spokesman for the German government.

Ukrainian President Folodimir Zellinski will join the leaders of Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Italy, Poland and Finland to discuss land issues occupied by Russian and Ukraine security guarantees, as part of the ceasefire agreement. The Secretary of the NATO, Secretary -General Mark Root, the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Lin, and European Council President Antonio Costa.

European leaders will then participate in a video conference with Trump, Vice President JD Vance and Zelenskyy.

A European Union official said that the European Union foreign affairs ministers will also meet online on Wednesday to confirm unity and support for Ukraine, adding that it is important to ensure that Kiev is not forced to accept Russia’s conditions for a ceasefire.

The wave of calls emphasizes increasing efforts to intensify European capitals to try to form the critical summit results that can determine the fate of Ukraine and the long -term security framework in Europe. In a great privilege of Putin, Trump agreed to host a Friday meeting in Alaska, on American soil, without insisting on the presence of Zelinski as well.

European leaders, including German Chancellor Friedrich Mirz, French President Emmanuel Macron, and UK Prime Minister Sir Kerr Starmer, were concerned about the bilateral summit, which has not been invited to Europe or Ukraine.

“This is really a meeting that feels a little,” Trump said on Monday in the White House briefing room. “President Putin invited me to participate. I think he wanted to end with him … I was disappointed. Because I will receive a good call with him and then the missiles will be pressed in Kyiv elsewhere and you had 60 people dying on a road.”

On the weekend, European and Ukrainian security consultants have also argued that Washington should exercise more pressure on Russia through sanctions threats, according to several officials who attended talks hosted by UK Foreign Minister David Lami on Saturday.

They pushed Trump’s regional “barter” proposal – which means that Russia will enhance its occupation of Ukrainian lands, even from the areas that are not currently kept – and insisted that the current front lines should be the starting point in any ceasefire negotiations.

“Putin only works under pressure,” Mirz said on Sunday. The German counselor was pressing for Zelenskyy to attend the Alaska meeting in one way or another. Trump said on Monday that Zelinski would attend the next summit with Putin.

While talks about Russian lands are inevitable, there should be a distinction between recognition of the actual occupation and legal recognition.

“When it comes to this entire number of the region, when it comes to recognition, for example, perhaps in a future deal controlled by Russia in reality, in reality some Ukraine lands, it should be an effective recognition, not political recognition of politics,” I told ABC news on Sunday.

In response to a question about whether the UK can trust Putin in the talks, the Starmer office said on Monday: “We never trust President Putin as much as we can throw it.”

“We are clearly supporting Ukraine and President Trump in these negotiations,” said a spokesman. But “any ceasefire cannot be an opportunity for President Putin to leave and re -deport.”

Zelinski said on Monday that he was constantly in contact with other leaders. “Now is the moment when there is a real opportunity to achieve peace. But peace must be real and permanent, and security guarantees should be in place.”

Additional reports by Paula Tama in Brussels, Fabrice Debrez in Kiev, David Shepard in London and Christopher Miller in New York