{"id":2741,"date":"2026-06-07T16:17:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T16:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/2741\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T16:17:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T16:17:11","slug":"ukraine-deluded-putin-has-missed-his-chance-for-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/2741\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine: Deluded Putin has missed his chance for peace"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ukraine\u2019s European allies also believe there could be a small window to force Putin to the negotiating table, with his troops\u2019 advances stalled<\/a>, Russia\u2019s air defences weakened and the economy on unsteady ground.<\/p>\n

The talks on Sunday will be attended by Sir Keir Starmer, the Prime Minister, France\u2019s Emmanuel Macron and Germany\u2019s Friedrich Merz.<\/p>\n

They will consider how to put further Western pressure on Russia and best support Ukraine if the war continues.<\/p>\n

The Telegraph has previously reported on how Mr Zelensky now sees the E3, an unofficial security alliance of Europe\u2019s largest countries, as a potential vehicle for reinvigorating the peace process.<\/p>\n

Alternatives to Donald Trump<\/p>\n

Kyiv is looking for alternatives to Donald Trump, who has made ending the war between Ukraine and Russia a key objective of his presidency, but has recently been sidetracked by his own conflict with Iran<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It is not clear whether the Europeans will be able to assume the US president\u2019s role as a mediator given their ongoing support for Ukraine.<\/p>\n

But they do have diplomatic channels between their own capitals and Moscow which could be used to ferry further messages from Mr Zelensky to Putin.<\/p>\n

Both leaders have long claimed that they are willing to end the war, but differences over how it comes to a finish have dashed any hopes of a ceasefire.<\/p>\n

The Kremlin chief insists that Ukraine must surrender the entirety of the eastern Donbas regions<\/a>, including parts not yet occupied by Russian forces, as the price for peace.<\/p>\n

In his open letter, Mr Zelensky reiterated that he would agree to an immediate truce along the current front lines of the conflict.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ukraine\u2019s European allies also believe there could be a small window to force Putin to the negotiating table,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2742,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[83,25,6,11,26,33,35,81],"class_list":["post-2741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-live-priority","tag-russia","tag-russia-ukraine-war","tag-standard","tag-ukraine","tag-vladimir-putin","tag-volodymyr-zelensky","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}