{"id":516490,"date":"2025-10-21T08:01:28","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T08:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/516490\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T08:01:28","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T08:01:28","slug":"european-leaders-issue-statement-backing-trumps-ukraine-ceasefire-position","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/516490\/","title":{"rendered":"European leaders issue statement backing Trump&#8217;s Ukraine ceasefire position"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">LONDON (Reuters) -Leaders of European nations, including Britain, France, Germany, Ukraine, and the European Union on Tuesday issued a joint statement setting out support for Ukraine and U.S. President Donald Trump&#8217;s efforts to end the fighting there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;We strongly support President Trump&#8217;s position that the fighting should stop immediately, and that the current line of contact should be the starting point of negotiations,&#8221; the statement, published by the British government said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;We must ramp up the pressure on Russia&#8217;s economy and its defence industry, until Putin is ready to make peace. We are developing measures to use the full value of Russia&#8217;s immobilised sovereign assets so that Ukraine has the resources it needs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">(Reporting by William James, Editing by Paul Sandle)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONDON (Reuters) -Leaders of European nations, including Britain, France, Germany, Ukraine, and the European Union on Tuesday issued&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":516491,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[2000,299,69400,1699,6202,657],"class_list":{"0":"post-516490","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ukraine","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-european-nations","11":"tag-european-union","12":"tag-president-donald-trump","13":"tag-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115411110174139045","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516490","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=516490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/516491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}