Zelenskyy rallies European support ahead of Trump-Putin summit
發佈日期: 2025-08-11 21:53
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he has won diplomatic backing from Europe and NATO ahead of the Russia-U.S. summit on Friday.
NBC reports that the White House is considering inviting Zelenskyy to Friday's Alaska summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, citing a senior U.S. official and others.
Zelenskyy and European leaders fear Trump and Putin may try to dictate terms for ending the Russia-Ukraine war.
U.S. President Donald Trump and his motorcade head to the golf course in Sterling, Virginia.
The self-proclaimed expert dealmaker appears relaxed days before his summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska, believing he is close to securing an agreement that would end the three-and-a-half-year Russia-Ukraine war.
But if Trump is portraying calm, a diplomatic storm is brewing across the Atlantic in Europe, where most countries feel sidelined by the U.S. and are backing Ukraine's position.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, in an interview with public broadcaster ARD, said there can be no peace if Russian aggression is rewarded.
He is referring to Trump's claim that Ukraine may need to cede some or all of the territory captured by Russia in any peace deal.
Merz said he was scheduled to speak to Trump and insist that Ukraine and Europe are involved in negotiations.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he has the support of leaders from Britain, France, Italy, Poland, Finland and the European Commission.
He said he had no doubts about Trump's ability to bring an end to the war.
But knowing Russia, a second attempt to partition Ukraine will result in a third, and he stands firm on Ukraine's sovereignty.
U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance, in a Fox News interview, said Trump will try to convince Putin to include Zelenskyy in a future three-way summit, admitting that any peace agreement is unlikely to satisfy all parties.
"One of the most important logjams is that Vladimir Putin said that he would never sit down with Zelenskyy, the head of Ukraine, and the president has now got that to change," said Vance. "We're going to try to find some negotiated settlement that the Ukrainians and the Russians can live with, where they can live in relative peace, where the killing stops. It's not going to make anybody super happy. Both the Russians and the Ukrainians probably at the end of the day are going to be unhappy with it."
Meanwhile, Russian attacks on Ukrainian targets continue. A strike on Zaporizhzhia destroyed two civilian buildings, vehicles and nearby houses, injuring at least a dozen people.
