The leaders of France, Germany, the United Kingdom and Italy had a phone interview with the American president Donald Trumpon the eve of the lengthy -awaited name between the latter and Vladimir Putin, scheduled for immediately, May 19, at 4 pm Italian. The shared purpose is to exert the utmost stress on the Kremlin in order that the rapid and with out situation is reached a stop and the peace negotiations are severely relaunched.
The transatlantic coordination was confirmed by Downing Street, who in a be aware spoke of a “In -depth discussion on the situation in Ukraine and on the catastrophic cost of the conflict for both sides”. The spokesman for British Prime Minister Keir Starmer added that leaders reiterated “the urgent need of an unconditional fire” and expressed the idea that the Russian president should “take the talks of peace seriously”. On the desk additionally new sanctioning measuresif Moscow continues to flee a reputable diplomatic comparability.
The transfer of the 4 European leaders comes after the failure of the talks between Kiev and Moscow held on Friday in Istanbul. On that event, regardless of the Turkish mediation, the 2 delegations have been unable to agree even on a short lived respite. Europe now fears an additional escalation, each army and humanitarian, and tries to behave prematurely of the fragile Trump-Putin name.
The German Chancellor Friedrich Merzintervening from Rome on the event of the Pontificate Start Mass of Pope Leone XIVadvised journalists that He intends to have an additional confrontation with the leaders of France, the United Kingdom, Italy and Poland earlier than contact between Trump and the Russian president. “We agreed to talk to us once again together with the American president – he explained – to better prepare for this interview. We can only hope that there are now concrete progress”.
Even the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky intensified contacts with Washington. During a gathering in Rome with the US vice -president JD Vance and the secretary of state Marco Rubio, Zelensky delivered a letter addressed to Trump containing new cooperation proposals and a request for help in view of the doable restart of the negotiations. The assembly befell in parallel to European efforts and touched key factors akin to the hearth, the penalties to Russia and the diplomatic views that emerged in the course of the Istanbul interviews.
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