{"id":351207,"date":"2025-08-17T08:14:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T08:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/351207\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T08:14:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T08:14:14","slug":"ukraine-russia-us-latest-putin-complicating-end-to-war-zelensky-says-as-trump-pursues-peace-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/351207\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine-Russia-US latest: Putin complicating end to war, Zelensky says as Trump pursues peace deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Coalition pushed for ceasefire, but may now change their tunepublished at 09:06 British Summer Time<\/p>\n

09:06 BST<\/p>\n

\"\"Jack Fenwick<\/strong>
Political correspondent<\/p>\n

The so-called coalition of the willing last met on Wednesday and, at that point, a ceasefire was one of their key aims.<\/p>\n

They agreed that “meaningful negotiations can only take place in the context of a ceasefire or a lasting and significant cessation of hostilities”.<\/p>\n

Since then, the prospect of a ceasefire has changed course.<\/p>\n

President Trump said after his meeting with Putin that he wants to skip a ceasefire and move straight to a
\nlasting peace deal, a move which has worried many people in Ukraine.<\/p>\n

Trump claimed that other Nato leaders agreed with him on
\nthis \u2013 when I put that to a senior Downing Street source yesterday, they
\nwouldn\u2019t confirm whether that was the case.<\/p>\n

In a joint statement from European leaders on Saturday, and another from Starmer, the word ceasefire wasn\u2019t used.<\/p>\n

The leaders\u2019 language on what they now think a peace deal
\nlooks like could be one of the most interesting developments today.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m told that following the meeting of the coalition for the willing later, we can expect a joint statement from the leaders on the call.<\/p>\n

One thing to look out for will be whether they talk about a potential ceasefire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Coalition pushed for ceasefire, but may now change their tunepublished at 09:06 British Summer Time 09:06 BST Jack…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351208,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7655],"tags":[332],"class_list":{"0":"post-351207","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-russia"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115043111070199039","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351207","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=351207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}