After three hours of discussion with Vladimir Putin last Friday, Donald Trump had meant that a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine was not envisaged, but rather “directly a peace agreement”. And that it should probably go through the abandonment of kyiv from part of the national territory. In support of the Ukrainian president, and to continue the discussion with Donald Trump, a large number of European leaders had made the trip to Washington on Monday: British Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, the Italian Prime Minister, Georgia Meloni, the Finnish president, Alexander Stubb, the German Chancellor, Friedrich Merz, Friedrich Merz NATO secretary general, Mark Rutte, French president, Emmanuel Macron. And, the principal concerned, great absent from the negotiations last Friday: the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky. A afternoon story whose concrete results are not yet perfectly clear.
In February, the last time Volodymyr Zelensky had met Donald Trump at the White House, the meeting had turned to a terrible camouflet, while televisions around the world broadcast a large exchange of jibes between the two heads of state live. The American vice-president, JD Vance, had notably criticized the guilty absence of three-piece costumes of the Ukrainian president, who has a simple military t-shirt since the start of the war to recall the situation in which his country is located. To avoid such reproaches this Monday, he had held his lesson, dressed in a black jacket. What Donald Trump immediately pointed out “to love” when he got out of the car.