{"id":424237,"date":"2025-12-04T14:17:21","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T14:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/424237\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T14:17:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T14:17:21","slug":"macron-warned-us-could-betray-ukraine-in-leaked-leaders-call-spiegel-reports-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/424237\/","title":{"rendered":"Macron warned US could \u2018betray\u2019 Ukraine in leaked leaders\u2019 call, Spiegel reports \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe consider it incorrect to publish any alleged transcripts of the leaders\u2019 conversations, which could harm the diplomatic process \u2014 we neither confirm nor deny any of the above,\u201d a Ukrainian diplomat told POLITICO granted anonymity to discuss a sensitive matter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn general, only the Russians benefit from any splits between Europe and America, so our consistent position is that transatlantic unity must be maintained,\u201d the diplomat added. Zelenskyy\u2019s office declined to comment. <\/p>\n<p>The call took place after the Trump administration\u00a0circulated\u00a0a 28-point peace plan \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/steve-witkoff-arrives-moscow-vladimir-putin-talks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reportedly drafted<\/a> by the Kremlin\u2019s envoy Kirill Dmitriev, Witkoff and Kushner \u2014 that was criticized by Ukraine and European allies for being too favorable to Russia, and triggered frenzied negotiations in Geneva.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Those subsequent talks, attended by European, Ukrainian and American officials, yielded an updated 19-point plan, which Russia has yet to agree to.\u00a0Moscow has not backed down from its maximalist demands, namely that Kyiv give up vast swathes of unoccupied territory in its east, limit the size of its military and hold new elections.<\/p>\n<p>European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr St\u00f8re and European Council President Ant\u00f3nio\u00a0Costa also participated in Monday\u2019s call, according to Spiegel.<\/p>\n<p>The call also saw the issue of Russia\u2019s frozen assets discussed, Spiegel reported, with some leaders insisting that seizing Moscow\u2019s billions to fund a massive tranche of financial and military aid for Ukraine was a matter for the EU to decide, not the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>Victor Jack, Clea Caulcutt and Joshua Berlinger contributed reporting.<\/p>\n<p>This article has been updated. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWe consider it incorrect to publish any alleged transcripts of the leaders\u2019 conversations, which could harm the diplomatic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":424238,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[88257,69,25820,8703,116,8706,25821,29163,37440,17966,115970,269,26450,8955,138541,1802,50,257,4995,13226,273,67,2856,3656,275,103],"class_list":{"0":"post-424237","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-alexander-stubb","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-donald-tusk","11":"tag-emmanuel-macron","12":"tag-finland","13":"tag-french-politics","14":"tag-friedrich-merz","15":"tag-german-politics","16":"tag-giorgia-meloni","17":"tag-jared-kushner","18":"tag-jonas-gahr-store","19":"tag-kremlin","20":"tag-macron","21":"tag-mark-rutte","22":"tag-mette-frederiksen","23":"tag-military","24":"tag-news","25":"tag-russia","26":"tag-security","27":"tag-steve-witkoff","28":"tag-ukraine","29":"tag-united-states","30":"tag-ursula-von-der-leyen","31":"tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy","32":"tag-war-in-ukraine","33":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115661730578680721","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}