But there\u2019s little indication that the United States, which has eased energy sanctions against Russia amid a spike in global prices, wants to follow suit or indeed stump up any additional cash to back Kyiv\u2019s war effort.<\/p>\n
The other hot-button issue is who should lead any future talks and what approach they should take. Zelenskyy has insisted in recent meetings with EU leaders that Europe should be at the table, not as a mediator but as an ally with shared interests.<\/p>\n
European and Ukrainian officials said ahead of the G7 that they want to get the U.S. onside with a strong common negotiating position \u2014 dropping any suggestion that Kyiv should cede territory.<\/p>\n
Germany, France and the United Kingdom \u2014 a trio known as the \u201cE3\u201d powers \u2014 last week took their first tentative steps toward engaging directly with Moscow, sending their envoys to Moscow to speak with Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Galuzin.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The trio took a cautious approach, reiterating EU leaders\u2019 demands for a complete and immediate ceasefire, robust security guarantees for Ukraine, and the use of the current contact line as a starting point for any talks.<\/p>\n
But if Trump gets involved, he may not share Europe\u2019s view of how the talks should go \u2014 or even want them at the table.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt turns out that the only person in the planet \u2014 it speaks to the president\u2019s role on the world stage \u2014 who can bring the two sides together and try to negotiate the end of this war is President Trump,\u201d said a senior Trump administration official.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"But there\u2019s little indication that the United States, which has eased energy sanctions against Russia amid a spike…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5896,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1140,704,1094,370,43,207,1903,194,195,75,42,1664,1531,55,651,653,652,25,780,376,1665,26,1341,196,1902,33,152,314,72,352],"class_list":["post-5895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-antonio-costa","tag-conflict","tag-crisis","tag-defense","tag-donald-trump","tag-emmanuel-macron","tag-energy","tag-france","tag-germany","tag-industry","tag-iran","tag-jared-kushner","tag-macron","tag-moldova","tag-negotiations","tag-oil","tag-rights","tag-russia","tag-sanctions","tag-security","tag-steve-witkoff","tag-ukraine","tag-united-kingdom","tag-united-states","tag-ursula-von-der-leyen","tag-vladimir-putin","tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy","tag-war","tag-war-in-ukraine","tag-weapons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5895","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=5895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}