European leaders to affix Zelenskyy’s assembly with Trump : NPR

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Ben Curtis/AP KYIV — European and NATO leaders introduced Sunday that they will be becoming a member of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Washington for essential talks with President Donald Trump, rallying across the Ukrainian chief after his exclusion from Trump's summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The outstanding transfer — with one European chief after one other asserting that they will be at Zelenskyy's facet when he travels to the White Home on Monday — was an obvious effort to make sure that the assembly goes higher than the final one in February, when Trump berated the Ukrainian president in a heated Oval Workplace encounter.

"The Europeans are very afraid of the Oval Workplace scene being repeated and they also need to help Mr. Zelenskyy to the hilt," stated retired French Gen. Dominique Trinquand, a former head of France's navy mission on the United Nations.

"It is a energy wrestle and a place of energy which may work with Trump," he stated in a telephone interview.

The European leaders' presence at Zelenskyy's facet, demonstrating Europe's help for Ukraine, may probably assist ease issues in Kyiv and in different European capitals that Ukraine dangers being railroaded right into a peace deal that Trump says he desires to dealer with Russia.

It wasn't instantly clear whether or not all or simply a few of them could be collaborating within the precise assembly with Trump.

European Fee President Ursula von der Leyen introduced on X that she is going to participate within the talks, "on the request of President Zelenskyy."

The secretary-general of the NATO navy alliance, Mark Rutte, will even participate within the assembly, his press service stated.

The workplace of President Emmanuel Macron introduced that the French chief will journey on Monday to Washington "in conjunction with President Zelenskyy" though it did not instantly specify that he'll be within the assembly.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz will even be a part of the European group, however the assertion from his workplace likewise did not specify that he might be within the talks with Trump.

The grouped journey underscored European leaders' willpower to make sure that Europe has a voice in Trump's tried peace-making, after the U.S. president's summit on Friday with Putin — to which Zelenskyy wasn't invited.