{"id":626315,"date":"2025-12-11T13:17:25","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T13:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/626315\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T13:17:25","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T13:17:25","slug":"zelenskiy-holds-urgent-talks-with-european-allies-as-trump-pushes-for-russia-deal-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/626315\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelenskiy holds urgent talks with European allies as Trump pushes for Russia deal \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ukrainian <\/a>president Volodymyr Zelenskiy<\/a> was holding urgent talks on Thursday with leaders and officials from about 30 countries that are supporting Kyiv\u2019s effort to obtain fair terms for an end to the war with Russia<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The leaders of Germany, Britain and France were among those scheduled to take part in the meeting of Ukraine\u2019s allies, dubbed the \u201ccoalition of the willing\u201d, via video link.<\/p>\n

Mr Zelenskiy indicated the talks were hastily arranged as Kyiv officials scramble to avoid getting boxed in by US president Donald Trump\u2019s<\/a> demands for a swift settlement.<\/p>\n

European governments are trying to help steer the peace negotiations because they say their own security is at stake.<\/p>\n

Mr Trump said on Wednesday that he and European leaders discussed proposals by phone in \u201cpretty strong terms\u201d, adding that Mr Zelenskiy \u201chas to be realistic\u201d about his country\u2019s position on a peace plan that would cede Ukrainian territory to Russia. He did not elaborate.<\/p>\n

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Mr Trump\u2019s latest effort to broker a settlement is taking longer than he wanted.<\/p>\n

He initially set a hard deadline for Kyiv to accept his peace plan before Thanksgiving at the end of November. Previous Washington deadlines for reaching a peace deal have also passed without making a breakthrough.<\/p>\n

\"AA group of children walks with flashlights in the dark underground crossing during the electricity cut-off in downtown Kyiv, Ukraine. Photograph: EPA <\/p>\n

Russia <\/a>is also keen to show Mr Trump it is engaging with his peace efforts, hoping to avoid any further US sanctions.<\/p>\n

Russia\u2019s foreign minister Sergey Lavrov said on Thursday that Russia has relayed to Washington \u201cadditional proposals … concerning collective security guarantees\u201d that Ukraine and Europe say are needed to deter future aggression.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe understand that when discussing security guarantees, we cannot limit ourselves to Ukraine alone,\u201d Mr Lavrov said. He did not offer details of the Kremlin\u2019s proposals.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Ukraine launched one of its biggest drone attacks of the nearly four-year war overnight, forcing flights in and out of all four Moscow airports to be halted for seven hours.<\/p>\n

Airports in eight other cities across Russia also faced restrictions, Russian civil aviation authority Rosaviatsia said on Thursday.<\/p>\n

The Russian defence ministry said air defences intercepted 287 Ukrainian drones over multiple Russian regions.<\/p>\n

The display of Ukraine\u2019s military capability to strike deep inside Russia appeared as a counter to the Kremlin\u2019s argument that its invasion is overwhelming for its smaller neighbour.<\/p>\n

Russian president Vladimir Putin wants to portray himself as negotiating from a position of strength, analysts say. But since launching the full-scale invasion in February 2022, Russia has captured only about 20 per cent of Ukraine.<\/p>\n

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There are signs that the negotiations are coming to a crossroads. The talks are at \u201ca critical moment\u201d, European leaders said in a statement on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Next week, Ukraine will co-ordinate with European countries on a bilateral level, Mr Zelenskiy said late on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cUkraine is working swiftly,\u201d he said. \u2013 AP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy was holding urgent talks on Thursday with leaders and officials from about 30 countries…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":626316,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7655],"tags":[32,332,9041,333,20729],"class_list":{"0":"post-626315","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-russia","10":"tag-ukraine-crisis","11":"tag-vladimir-putin","12":"tag-volodymyr-zelenskiy"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115701131796868239","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626315","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=626315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/626316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}