The White House didn\u2019t immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n
French President Emmanuel Macron and U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Sunday will lead a teleconference among the \u201ccoalition of the willing\u201d \u2014 countries that have indicated they will provide troops and other support to Ukraine at the end of the war, according to a European official.<\/p>\n
Ahead of the summit, Trump\u00a0said he supported some<\/a>\u00a0American role in providing security guarantees \u2014 some form of assurance or support from Washington to deter Russia from attacking again after a peace deal is agreed. Nordic and Baltic leaders\u00a0welcomed those commitments<\/a>\u00a0again after Trump spoke with European officials late Friday.<\/p>\n While Trump did much more than usual to consult with Europe in the lead-up to the summit with Putin and after, the frequent contact does not seem to have yielded tangible results. European officials are relieved that Trump did not agree to a deal with Putin but disappointed that the threat of steep secondary tariffs targeting third countries buying Russian oil was tabled.<\/p>\n \u201cThey want to try to influence the negotiation process as much as possible, because they know Trump really wants to do it this way, and they don\u2019t want to leave the initiative to Putin,\u201d said Giuseppe Spatafora, a former NATO official who is now a research analyst at the EU Institute for Security Studies. \u201cIn general, the Europeans talk much more often to Trump than during the first 100 days, which is good. They have influence. But it\u2019s limited.\u201d<\/p>\n Zelenskyy\u2019s last visit to the Oval Office in February quickly went off the rails when Vice President JD Vance and later Trump both lectured him for not being grateful enough for American support and overplaying what they said was a weak diplomatic position. Zelenskyy\u2019s decision to wear a black polo, black pants and boots rather than a suit further soured the atmosphere.<\/p>\n But Trump and Zelenskyy have been on better terms in recent meetings, as Kyiv\u2019s allies sought to improve the relationship and Trump\u2019s frustration with Putin mounted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The White House didn\u2019t immediately respond to a request for comment. French President Emmanuel Macron and U.K. Prime…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350579,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[766,767,6178,32,34,601,807,2992,809,2661,2343,23422,332,2663,811,479,6717,657,15,49,978,659,333,2601,771,335],"class_list":{"0":"post-350578","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-alexander-stubb","9":"tag-baltics","10":"tag-conflict","11":"tag-donald-trump","12":"tag-emmanuel-macron","13":"tag-jd-vance","14":"tag-keir-starmer","15":"tag-mark-rutte","16":"tag-negotiations","17":"tag-oil","18":"tag-research","19":"tag-roads","20":"tag-russia","21":"tag-sanctions","22":"tag-security","23":"tag-tariffs","24":"tag-transatlantic-relations","25":"tag-ukraine","26":"tag-united-kingdom","27":"tag-united-states","28":"tag-us","29":"tag-usa","30":"tag-vladimir-putin","31":"tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy","32":"tag-war","33":"tag-war-in-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115041703257023327","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350578","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=350578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}