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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited the White House on Friday amid recent signs that US President Donald Trump was warming to Kyiv’s cause. However, the event was eclipsed by the news a day earlier that Trump will again meet with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in the coming weeks.
The forthcoming Trump-Putin session, to be hosted in Budapest by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, one of the EU’s most pro-Russia leaders, has put Ukraine’s European allies on high alert. In the coming days, the US president will be lobbied intensely by regional leaders including NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, French President Emmanuel Macron, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and Finnish President Alexander Stubb.
Despite the large list of callers, there will be just one key message to Trump. That is, the European region, by and large, backs Zelensky 100 percent and wants to avoid any repeat of February’s awful White House meeting between Trump and Zelensky, when the latter was shaken down not only by the former but also Vice President J.D. Vance.
