Zelensky can still attend the Trump Putin meeting, but the rest of Europe is closed

It is the bilateral summit that every European leader wants to be in it.

For a good reason. Friday, Donald Trump is scheduled Vladimir Putin met Alaska To discuss ending the war in Ukraine.

Regional concessions are likely to be discussed, and Europe (not the least of which is Ukraine) does not want to redraw its borders through strength.

However, as matters stand, there are no invitations to the country that are invaded, nor the continent in which it is located.

“We prepare ourselves to some of the very obscene Russian demands.”.

“It will be a theatrical.” “Putin will ask for things that no one else can waive – with the exception of Donald Trump.”

President Zelinski said he will not agree to abandon any land, or even freeze the conflict along the current front lines.

His argument is that it will not slow the Russian war machine that he launched Wide war for more than three and a half years. He claims that concessions will not accelerate them except.

“It is clear that Putin wants a picture with the most influential people on the ground, which is President Trump, and he wants to postpone the sanctions, which he will likely get,” the head of foreign policy in the European Union, Kaja Class, tells me.

“The question is, what is the success of the United States at the meeting?” You ask. “If President Zelinski exists, it will be a clear success.”

But if the leader of Ukraine is not at the Alaska table, how can the Kremlin’s proposals be challenged?

“He can go,” said the American president about this possibility. But Kyiv and Europe want to move from “perhaps” to “yes”.

In addition to their anxiety is individual coordination as the idea of the Kremlin The White House agreed.

The European District of Brussels is not the wave of usual political activity during the month of August, but the US talks, Russia, changed that.

On Monday, Class hosted a virtual meeting of foreign ministers, calling for an unconditional ceasefire before any deal. New penalties for Moscow were also announced.

I asked Class about what I thought Donald Trump means the suggestion of some lands can be replaced.

“We have to ask President Trump,” she says. “But it is clear that the aggressor cannot be granted to aggression. Otherwise, we will see more aggression around the world because it comes to its fruits.”

Europe tries to do two things: gathering around Ukraine, as well as the muscles in the American -led peace process.

Whether Zelinski is doing the trip or not, the European door has been closed firmly since Trump recycled position at the beginning of the year.

At that time, his envoy to Ukraine, Keith Keel, said that the bloc would not participate in any peace talks. It is a position that the Europeans could not change through diplomacy.

Their relationship with the United States has still improved, not the least of which is great increases in their defensive spending. But Radoslau Sikorsky, Poland’s Foreign Minister, believes that they need a more central role.

“This is the issue of an existential European security interest,” he explains.

“We appreciate Trump’s efforts, but we will make our decision in Europe as well.

“The simple shooting stop will not solve the problem.”

German Chancellor Friedrich Mirz got a distance between European leaders, as well as Volodimir Zelinski and Donald Trump on Wednesday.

They hope to consult about America’s plan to end the invasion of Russia, but former head of the Foreign Ministry, Lund McDonald, will be surprised by the vision of a European invitation at the last minute on Friday.

He warned, “The end will be long as the war was long.”

“The meeting is a teacher, but it does not actually mean that it will lead anywhere.”