{"id":355653,"date":"2025-08-19T02:11:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T02:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/355653\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T02:11:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T02:11:10","slug":"eu-leaders-present-united-front-for-ceasefire-in-ukraine-and-pressure-on-russia-video-us-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/355653\/","title":{"rendered":"EU leaders present united front for ceasefire in Ukraine and &#8216;pressure on Russia&#8217; \u2013 video | US news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump has ruled out a ceasefire in Ukraine as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/volodymyr-zelenskiy\" data-link-name=\"in standfirst link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Volodymyr Zelenskyy<\/a> and his European allies visited the White House. The US president said he had called Putin and begun arrangements for a meeting between the Russian president and Ukrainian leader, saying, &#8216;all of us would obviously prefer an immediate ceasefire &#8230; as of this moment it&#8217;s not happening&#8217;. However, the leaders of France and Germany refused to accept defeat on the issue. Friedrich Merz, the chancellor of Germany, insisted that &#8216;we would all like to see a ceasefire&#8217; and he could not imagine the next meeting taking place without one. Emmanuel Macron, the president of France, also backed the idea of a &#8216;truce&#8217; as a &#8216;necessity&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Donald Trump has ruled out a ceasefire in Ukraine as Volodymyr Zelenskyy and his European allies visited the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355654,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[2000,299,5187],"class_list":{"0":"post-355653","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-european"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115053008329584521","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355653","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=355653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}