European leaders to join Ukrainian President in Washington for crucial meeting with US President Donald Trump.
Hours before sitting down with US President Donald Trump for a meeting in the Oval Office, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy took to his official social media profile to sound off yet another alarm against Russia’s Vladimir Putin.
Addressing Putin’s demands for complete control over the Donbas region in exchange for a permanent peace deal, Zelenskyy expressed his unrelenting response as soon as he landed in Washington, DC. Confirming that he would be sitting down with Trump alongside several European leaders, the Ukrainian leader affirmed that he was wholeheartedly committed to end the war at hand “quickly and reliably.”
While he insisted on the potential peace agreement being “lasting,” he didn’t shy away from pulling out stark reminders from the history book suggesting otherwise.
“Not like it was years ago, when Ukraine was forced to give up Crimea and part of our East—part of Donbas—and Putin simply used it as a springboard for a new attack.
Or when Ukraine was given so called “security guarantees” in 1994, but they didn’t work,” he wrote on X. Zelenskyy went on to express his regret over having given up Crimea instead of holding onto the territory, as the country did with Kyiv, Odesa or Kharkiv after 2022.
“Ukrainians are fighting for their land, for their independence. Now, our soldiers have successes in Donetsk and Sumy regions,” he continued, foregrounding his confidence in Ukrainian forces’ strength to defend the country.
Zelenskyy reiterated how “grateful” his country and its people would always be to Trump, everyone in the US and every other ally who has backed them along the way.
“Russia must end this war, which it itself started. And I hope that our joint strength with America, with out European friends, will force Russia into a real peace. Thank you!” he concluded the post hours before his meeting with Trump that comes shortly after the US president’s closed-door sit-down with Putin in Alaska.
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Top European leaders will join Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in Washington today for a crucial meeting with US President Donald Trump, as pressure mounts for a swift resolution to the ongoing war in Ukraine.
The high-profile delegation includes UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, and NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte.
The leaders are hoping to reinforce Zelenskiy’s position and ensure that any proposed peace terms do not undermine Ukraine’s sovereignty or long-term security.
In a social media post, Trump teased “BIG PROGRESS ON RUSSIA” but offered no details, raising speculation over the direction and content of the upcoming negotiations.
