{"id":325595,"date":"2025-08-07T16:10:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T16:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/325595\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T16:10:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T16:10:11","slug":"zelenskyy-says-europe-must-be-part-of-russia-ukraine-peace-talks-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/325595\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelenskyy says Europe must be part of Russia-Ukraine peace talks \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen was not on the call with Trump, a spokesperson for the Commission said on Thursday. But she was \u201cextensively debriefed by several EU leaders,\u201d the spokesperson told reporters.<\/p>\n

The Kremlin confirmed<\/a> on Thursday that the two leaders plan to meet \u201cin the coming days.\u201d <\/p>\n

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Wednesday that, following Special Envoy Steve Witkoff\u2019s meeting with Putin, the U.S. government has a better understanding of the conditions under which Moscow would be prepared to end the war.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe now have to compare that to what the Ukrainians and our European allies, but the Ukrainians primarily, of course, are willing to accept \u2014 and what you try to see is how far can you get these two positions closer,\u201d Rubio told Fox Business<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we can get what the Ukrainians will accept and what the Russians will accept<\/a> close enough, then I think there\u2019s the opportunity for the president to have a meeting that includes both Putin and Zelenskyy to try to close this thing out,\u201d Rubio said.<\/p>\n

The diplomatic push comes after Trump upped the pressure on Putin by imposing an additional 25 percent tariff on India for buying Russian oil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen was not on the call with Trump, a spokesperson for the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325596,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[32,2000,299,5187,1945,730,660,2820,809,2661,332,2663,7070,479,657,49,1220,333,2601,771,335],"class_list":{"0":"post-325595","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-european","12":"tag-friedrich-merz","13":"tag-india","14":"tag-kremlin","15":"tag-marco-rubio","16":"tag-negotiations","17":"tag-oil","18":"tag-russia","19":"tag-sanctions","20":"tag-steve-witkoff","21":"tag-tariffs","22":"tag-ukraine","23":"tag-united-states","24":"tag-ursula-von-der-leyen","25":"tag-vladimir-putin","26":"tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy","27":"tag-war","28":"tag-war-in-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114988359708143676","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}