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How Europe is trying to shield Ukraine from Trump | Russia-Ukraine war News

on The third anniversary From Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, European countries find themselves in a rift cross with their ally to the United States.

During the era of President Donald Trump, the United States and Russia began peace talks Ukraine excluded And Europe from the operation.

Many European leaders, disappointed by Trump’s behavior Regarding Ukraine, it is now working on a way to provide security guarantees for the war -torn country.

Here is what European leaders do to support Kyiv:

How did we get here?

Trump spoke this month with Russian President Vladimir Putin and agreed to hold peace talks with Russia. This ignited Anxiety among European leaders Ukrainian President Folodimir Zelinski had been excluded from the talks.

“There are no decisions on Ukraine without Ukraine. Zelinski said on February 15 at the Munich Security Conference:” Europe must have a seat on the table when decisions are taken on Europe. “

On February 17, French President Emmanuel Macron hosted European leaders of the emergency summit at Elise Palace in Paris to discuss security guarantees for Ukraine. A day later, senior diplomats from the United States and Russia He met in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Without Ukraine or Europe on the table. The two countries said that they discussed the reform of their relationship.

Since then, Trump and Zelinski are involved in a War of words. Trump described the Ukrainian leader as a “dictator” and accused Ukraine of starting the war with Russia. Zelinski retreated by saying that the American president lived in the Russian “misleading space”.

What does European leaders do about it?

The leaders of the 27 countries in the European Union will hold the emergency summit on March 6. European Council President Antonio Costa announced on Sunday that this meeting will be held in Brussels. The summit will be on Ukrainian and European security.

“We are living a crucial moment for Ukraine and European security,” he wrote on social media.

European Union leaders met the last time on February 3 to discuss how to avoid a tariff war with the United States.

The European Union is developing a military aid package for Ukraine worth at least 20 billion euros (about 21 billion dollars), and three diplomats of the European Union Politico said.

The American News website reported that the aid package can consist of monetary and military devices, such as missiles and artillery shells. The head of the European Union’s foreign policy, Kaja Calas, is behind the batch to renew military aid to Kiev.

The Trump administration is back away from providing security guarantees to Ukraine and wants Europe to occupy the driver’s seat, noting that the United States has other priorities, such as border security.

“European countries must deal with Russia’s regional ambitions, which” will not be greater supported by the United States, “said Kiir Giles, a senior consultant in Chatham House Mink Tank.

Giles added that the American leaders “intend to practice an anti -lever” to accept the conditions of Russian peace.

“European countries are stumbling because of their inability to exercise military power, which is the only currency that has any influence on Russia and the United States deterring,” said Giles.

What message does European leaders send to Trump?

Macron and UK Prime Minister Kiir Starmer will visit Washington separately this week to try to speak Trump From abandoning Ukraine.

Starmer and McConds spoke on Sunday and concluded that Europe should “should appear the United leadership to support Ukraine in the face of Russian aggression,” according to the Starmer Office.

The Russian Deputy Foreign Minister said on Saturday that the preparations for the Trump Putin Summit are also ongoing.

Macron Trump will meet at the White House on Monday, while Starmer will visit the US President on Thursday.

“I will tell him [Trump]”In its depths, you cannot be weak in the face of the president [Putin]. Not you. “This is not what you do, and not in your interests,” Macron said during a question and social media session on Monday before his visit.

Starmer told the Scottish Labor Party conference in Glasgow on Sunday: “After all they suffered from, after all that they fought for, there could be no discussion about Ukraine without Ukraine, and the people of Ukraine must have a long -term safe future.”

However, Trump said at the Brian Celid show on Radio Fox News on Friday that Starmer and Makon “did nothing” to end the Ukrainian war.

“There is a clear parallel between the procession of leaders heading to the Trump court in Washington to try to overcome it and the period at the end of 2021, beginning of 2022 when the process itself was spoken to try to persuade Putin not to invade Ukraine, Giles said.

In November 2021, William Burns, then director of CIA, visited Moscow to discuss the United States-Russia relations, and in February next year, the Minister of Defense in Macron and the United Kingdom Ben Wallet flew to Russia to try to persuade Putin to contact tensions with Ukraine.

How widespread support for Ukraine?

While Ukraine defines the third anniversary of the invasion of Russia, there are many leaders in Kyiv to show their support.

Leaders, including the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Lin and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, received by Andrei Sibha, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, and Andrei Yermak, Chief of Staff Zellinski.

Costa, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, Latvian President Edgar Renkivix, Litanic President Gitanas Nazia and Estonian Prime Minister Christine Michel, arrived in Kiev on Monday.

According to local reports, Finnish President Alexander Stop, Danish Prime Minister Metty Friedriksen, Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas spear on and Swedish Prime Minister Olf Christon, in the Ukrainian capital.

“Let’s be clear: free Ukraine and sovereignty is not only in the European interest,” Von der Layen wrote in a publication on X. “It is also in the interest of the whole world.”

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2025-02-24 13:43:00

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