EU leaders have a united front for the ceasefire in Ukraine and “pressure on Russia”-Video | US News

Donald Trump excluded a ceasefire in Ukraine while Volodymyr Zelenskyy and his European allies visited the White House. The American president said that he had called Putin and started arrangements for a meeting between the Russian president and the Ukrainian chief, saying: “We will obviously prefer an immediate ceasefire … from that moment, this does not happen”. However, the leaders of France and Germany refused to accept the defeat on the issue. Friedrich Merz, the Chancellor of Germany, insisted that “we would all like to see a cease-fire” and he could not imagine the next meeting that takes place without one. Emmanuel Macron, the president of France, also supported the idea of a “truce” as a “necessity”.