D -Day for Volodymyr Zelensky and Europeans. The Ukrainian president arrived in Washington where he was to meet Donald Trump on Monday, August 18, in order to reach an agreement to put an end to the conflict between Ukraine and Russia. “We all have the deep desire to end this war quickly and reliably. And peace must be sustainable ”he wrote on X when he arrived in the United States.
This meeting will take place in the presence of seven European leaders: the president of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen, the French president Emmanuel Macron, the German chancellor Friedrich Merz, the head of the Italian government Giorgia Meloni, the Finnish president Alexander Stubb and the secretary general of NATO Mark Rutte.
“The objective is simple: to recall what unites Ukraine, Europe and the United States”
After the videoconferencing meeting of the “volunteer coalition”, this Sunday, in which Volodymyr Zelensky participated, Emmanuel Macron assured that we were “In an extremely serious context” in which is played “An important time of the conflict and for the security of Ukraine”. In this context, “The objective is simple: to recall what unites Ukraine, Europe and the United States”continued the President of the Republic, designating “A aggressor”namely Russia.
This meeting in Washington occurs three days after the Alaska summit between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin to whom Volodymyr Zelensky and the Europeans had not been invited. He ended without a concrete announcement. The American president considers that an agreement to put an end to the war “Really depends on the president” Ukrainian.
In total, this is the fifth time that Volodymyr Zelensky has been received in the oval office since the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022. The last interview between the two heads of state, in February, had turned to confrontation.
