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European leaders met virtually with Zelensky and Merz ahead of Trump\u2019s summit with Putin on Friday
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<\/a>Donald Trump<\/a> has threatened Vladimir Putin with \u201csevere consequences\u201d if the Russian leader does not agree to a ceasefire after crunch talks in Alaska<\/a> this week.
The US<\/a> president did not say what these would be, but has previously threatened Moscow<\/a> with harsh sanctions if it did not agree to a truce in Ukraine.
It comes after Volodymyr Zelensky<\/a> said Mr Trump told European leaders he supports a ceasefire and the idea of security guarantees for Ukraine and discussed America\u2019s willingness to \u201ctake part\u201d in this.
The Ukrainian president was speaking after a virtual meeting with Mr Trump and other European leaders, as Kyiv<\/a> presses its case on the US president ahead of the landmark meeting on Friday.
\u201cAll the partners demonstrated one voice, one desire, and one principle. The same principle and the same vision. This is an important step forward,\u201d he added.
Zelensky said Putin has demanded Ukrainian forces withdraw from Donetsk<\/a>, but vowed Ukraine would \u201cnever leave\u201d the Donbas<\/a> and warned Putin\u2019s troops could use it as a spring board for a future invasion.
US President Donald Trump at the last minute requested Maga-allied Polish President Karol Nawrocki join the Ukraine teleconference with European leaders on Wednesday, according to centrist Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, Nawrocki’s bitter political rival who had been expected to attend.
Nawrocki, a conservative nationalist and eurosceptic, is an ally of Trump’s right-wing populist Maga political movement and visited the White House during Poland’s presidential election campaign this year. He defeated the candidate of Tusk’s pro-European, centrist party in June.
“Just before midnight yesterday we received information, alongside our European partners, that the American side would prefer that Poland was represented by the president in contacts with President Trump,” Tusk told a news conference.
The White House did not comment whether the US requested Nawrocki rather than Tusk take part in the call.
A Polish government spokesperson said on Tuesday that Tusk, a former head of the European Council of leaders, would attend the call with Trump.
Russian forces on the ground in Ukraine have been closing in on a key territorial grab around the city of Pokrovsk, in the eastern Donbas region that comprises Ukraine’s eastern industrial heartland, which Putin has long coveted.
Military analysts using open-source information to monitor the battles have said Ukraine’s ability to fend off those advances could be critical.
Losing Pokrovsk would hand Russia an important victory ahead of the summit and could complicate Ukrainian supply lines to the Donetsk region, where the Kremlin has focused the bulk of military efforts.
In a post on social media, German chancellor Friedrich Merz shared a photo of him and Volodymyr Zelensky discussing the upcoming Alaska meeting with European counterparts.
Leaders of the US, Ukraine and Europe discussed possible locations for a follow-up meeting between US president Donald Trump, Volodymyr Zelensky and Vladimir Putin.
Mr Trump said on Wednesday there was a \u201cvery good chance\u201d of Mr Putin and Mr Zelensky meeting after his crunch summit with the Russian leader in Alaska on Friday
Possible locations include cities in Europe and the Middle East, according to sources close to the matter.
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz have welcomed Donald Trump\u2019s efforts to stop the killing in Ukraine, end Russia\u2019s war of aggression, and achieve just and lasting peace.
A joint statement from the European leaders said: \u201cFirst, meaningful negotiations can only take place in the context of a ceasefire or a lasting and significant cessation of hostilities.
\u201cSecond, sanctions and wider economic measures to put pressure on Russia\u2019s war economy should be strengthened if Russia does not agree to a ceasefire in Alaska.
\u201cThird, international borders must not be changed by force.
\u201cFourth, Ukraine must have robust and credible security guarantees to effectively defend its sovereignty and territorial integrity.
\u201cThe coalition of the willing is ready to play an active role, including through plans by those willing to deploy a reassurance force once hostilities have ceased. No limitations should be placed on Ukraine\u2019s armed forces or on its co-operation with third countries. Russia could not have a veto against Ukraine\u2018s pathway to EU and Nato.\u201d
EU leaders have rallied behind Ukraine after praising a \u201cvery good call\u201d with US president Donald Trump ahead of his landmark summit with Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Friday.
Finland’s President Alexander Stubb said the next few days and weeks could be decisive in the Ukraine peace process.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said it was a “very good call”.
“Today Europe, the US and NATO have strengthened the common ground for Ukraine.
“We will remain in close coordination. Nobody wants peace more than us, a just and lasting peace.”
German chancellor Friedrich Merz described the meeting with Trump as “constructive” and said that “important decisions” could be made in Anchorage, but stressed that “fundamental European and Ukrainian security interests must be protected” at the summit.
There will be \u201csevere consequences\u201d if Vladimir Putin does not agree to a ceasefire following crunch talks in Alaska, Donald Trump warned.
Mr Trump was “very clear” in a virtual meeting Wednesday with European leaders that the US wants to achieve a ceasefire at the upcoming US-Russia summit in Alaska, French President Emmanuel Macron said.
In the same meeting, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said, he told the group that Putin \u201cis bluffing\u201d ahead of the planned meeting with Mr Trump.
Mr Putin, Mr Zelensky said, “is trying to apply pressure … on all sectors of the Ukrainian front” in an attempt to show that Russia is “capable of occupying all of Ukraine.”
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