Volodymyr Zelenskyy will talk with leaders including Starmer, Macron, Merz and Carney as well as US delegation led by Steve Witkoff
Good morning and welcome to our live blog of a critical day in meetings between European world leaders and US officials.
The leaders of the UK, France, Germany, Denmark and Canada are all in Paris today for a meet that was scheduled last week to aid Ukraine, in the wake of Zelenskyy’s end-of-year talks with the US president, Donald Trump, to negotiate peace.
However, that was all planned before the US’s attack on Venezuela and abduction of its leader, which has upended the geopolitical calculus to say the least. Not only has it emboldened actions from states like Russia, the leaders of Nato democracies are now contending with Trump’s very active threat of grabbing territory like Denmark’s Greenland.
Despite the US’s clear violation of international law, most European leaders have also deferred from outright condemnation due to the stakes at play.
