{"id":50948,"date":"2025-12-08T18:20:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T00:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=50948"},"modified":"2025-12-09T01:22:33","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T07:22:33","slug":"european-powers-rally-behind-ukraine-after-trump-lashes-out-at-zelensky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=50948","title":{"rendered":"European powers rally behind Ukraine after Trump lashes out at Zelensky"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

European powers rallied behind Ukraine on Monday after President Trump\u2002<\/u><\/a>lashed out at Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky\u2002<\/u><\/a>a day prior, accusing him of not reading the U.S.-proposed peace plan to end the Russia-Ukraine war. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe stand with Ukraine,\u201d British Prime Minister Keir Starmer\u2002<\/u><\/a>said on Monday as the leader was hosting German Chancellor Friedrich Merz,<\/u><\/a> Zelensky and French President Emmanuel Macron\u2002<\/u><\/a>in London. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Starmer said if a ceasefire is to be reached, it needs to be \u201cjust and lasting,\u201d stressing \u201cit is so important we repeatedly set out the principle that matters about Ukraine are for Ukraine.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The backing from the U.K. prime minister came after Trump said on Sunday<\/u><\/a> that he was a \u201cbit disappointed that President Zelensky hasn\u2019t yet read the proposal, that was as of a few hours ago.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHis people love it, but he hasn\u2019t. Russia\u2019s fine with it,\u201d the president said. It was not clear if Trump was referring to the peace proposal that is already on the table or the new plan that is being worked on. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Friday, special envoy Steve Witkoff\u2002<\/u><\/a>and Trump\u2019s son-in-law, Jared Kushner,<\/u><\/a> met with Ukrainian Marine Corps Maj. Gen. Andriy Hnatov and Rustem Umerov,<\/u><\/a> secretary of Ukraine\u2019s National Security and Defense Council, in Florida to discuss ending the nearly four-year war in Eastern Europe. The officials reconvened on Saturday, and Ukraine said it is committed to the talks continuing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the meeting in London, Zelensky reiterated that Ukraine could not cede territory as part of any deal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe meeting between the leaders in the E3 format and President Zelensky made it possible to continue joint work on the U.S. plan, with a view to complementing it with European contributions, in close coordination with Ukraine,\u201d a French official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told The Hill on Monday following the meeting in London. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis work is currently being finalized by the NSAs ahead of exchanges between Europeans, Americans, and Ukrainians, which should help strengthen convergence in the coming days,\u201d the official said, adding the work will be \u201cdeepened to provide Ukraine with robust security guarantees, as well as to prepare measures for Ukraine\u2019s reconstruction.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last week, Witkoff and Kushner met with<\/u><\/a> Russian President Vladimir Putin\u2002<\/u><\/a>in Moscow. The Kremlin rejected parts of the Trump administration\u2019s peace plan after the two sides held \u201cconstructive and substantive\u201d talks, according to Putin\u2019s foreign policy adviser, Yuri Ushakov. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The initial 28-point peace plan was met with heavy pushback from GOP lawmakers and European leaders, arguing that the plan is too favorable to Russia, with Ukraine having its military capabilities curtailed and having to give up part of the Donbas region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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European powers rallied behind Ukraine on Monday after President Trump\u2002lashed out at Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky\u2002a day prior, accusing him of not reading the U.S.-proposed peace plan to end the Russia-Ukraine war.  \u201cWe stand with Ukraine,\u201d British Prime Minister Keir Starmer\u2002said on Monday as the leader was hosting German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, Zelensky and French President Emmanuel Macron\u2002in London.  Starmer said […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":50949,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1153],"tags":[2593,1230,1416,1826],"class_list":["post-50948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-military","tag-europe","tag-trump","tag-ukraine","tag-zelensky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50948"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50950,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50948\/revisions\/50950"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/50949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}