{"id":2476022,"date":"2025-08-18T17:44:01","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T21:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-and-european-leaders-put-on-united-front-despite-cracks-over-ukraine-war-resolution\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T17:45:41","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T21:45:41","slug":"trump-and-european-leaders-put-on-united-front-despite-cracks-over-ukraine-war-resolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-and-european-leaders-put-on-united-front-despite-cracks-over-ukraine-war-resolution\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump and European leaders put on united front despite cracks over Ukraine war resolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-and-european-leaders-put-on-united-front-despite-cracks-over-ukraine-war-resolution%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2476022&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article discusses a recent meeting at the White House where President Donald Trump hosted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky along with several European leaders to discuss peace efforts in the Ukraine war. Despite previous tensions between Trump and Zelensky, the meeting was amicable, with Trump praising Zelensky and emphasizing the importance of keeping the U.S. involved in negotiations with Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Key European figures participating included NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, Italian Prime minister Giorgia Meloni, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, Finnish President Alexander Stubb, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, and French President Emmanuel Macron. They collectively supported Trump&#8217;s peace initiative but expressed concerns about any agreement that might allow Russia to retain Crimea.<\/p>\n<p>Chancellor merz highlighted the importance of achieving a ceasefire before further negotiations,a position Trump initially questioned but ultimately appeared to support during the meeting. The proposal for security guarantees to Ukraine, modeled after NATO&#8217;s Article 5 collective defense principle, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/no-bikinis-beach-volleyball-stars-boycott-qatar-event-because-of-no-bikini-policy\/\" title=\"No Bikinis: Beach Vo...eyba... Stars Boycott Qatar Event Because Of No-Bikini Policy\">received positive feedback<\/a> from European leaders, though it reportedly drew criticism from Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Italian Prime Minister Meloni noted her country&#8217;s early support for the security guarantee concept and emphasized the need for joint efforts to ensure peace and security. Trump predicted that peace negotiations might conclude within one to two weeks but expressed uncertainty about whether Russian President Vladimir Putin and Zelensky woudl reach an agreement in that timeframe. He stressed the importance of trying, noting that accomplished negotiations could save thousands of lives each week.<\/p>\n<p>the meeting presented a united front from Trump and European leaders in pursuit of a resolution to the Ukraine conflict, though underlying disagreements and cautious optimism about the prospect of peace remained evident. <br \/> <!DOCTYPE html><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<div id=\"ld-4686-3758\"><\/div>\n<p><script>(function(w,d,s,i){w.ldAdInit=w.ldAdInit||[];w.ldAdInit.push({slot:14832835450050406,size:[0, 0],id:\"ld-4686-3758\"});if(!d.getElementById(i)){var j=d.createElement(s),p=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];j.async=true;j.src=\"https:\/\/cdn2.decide.dev\/_js\/ajs.js\";j.id=i;p.parentNode.insertBefore(j,p);}})(window,document,\"script\",\"ld-ajs\");<\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Trump and European leaders put on united front despite cracks over Ukraine war resolution<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2206763\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>A cadre of European leaders put on happy faces at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/white-house\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">White House<\/a> on Monday, offering <span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">praise for President&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump<\/a>&rsquo;s efforts to broker&nbsp;<\/span>peace in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/ukraine\/\">Ukraine<\/a> while also seeking to keep the United States in the fold ahead of negotiations with Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Trump met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky early Monday afternoon in the Oval Office, a sitdown that couldn&rsquo;t have gone more differently than Zelensky&rsquo;s previous trip to Washington, D.C., to visit Trump. That meeting ended with a reporter, and eventually Vice President JD Vance, castigating Zelensky for not wearing a suit or properly thanking the United States for footing the bill for Ukraine&rsquo;s defense of their territory.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3758839\/marlin-stutzman-redraw-indiana-congressional-districts\/\">Indiana Republican endorses redrawing congressional districts in home state<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/investigations\/3758553\/loudoun-county-schools-boys-title-ix-transgender-locker-room-case\/\">Loudoun County schools suspends boys in Title IX transgender locker room case: Report<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3758967\/joe-concha-marco-rubio-master-class-legacy-media-margaret-brennan\/\">Joe Concha praises Marco Rubio&#8217;s &#8216;master class&#8217; on correcting legacy media<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Monday&rsquo;s affair saw Zelensky and Trump meeting with their top aides for nearly two hours before the pair joined seven other European leaders for an expanded multilateral conversation. That group included NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, Finnish President Alexander Stubb, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, and French President Emmanuel Macron.<\/p>\n<p>The multilateral meeting began with Trump lauding Zelensky before passing the microphone to his European counterparts, and was followed by a &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wake-up-with-the-washington-examiner-new-face-for-freedom-and-some-debate-about-pardons-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Wake up with the Washington Examiner: New face for freedom and some debate about pardons - Washington Examiner\">family photo&#038;rdquo<\/a>; of the gathered dignitaries.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&ldquo;That was not a great day!&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>President <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@realDonaldTrump<\/a> shows the European Leaders his Butler &lsquo;Fight, Fight, Fight&rsquo; painting <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fGdBKhLjxj\">pic.twitter.com\/fGdBKhLjxj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Margo Martin (@MargoMartin47) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MargoMartin47\/status\/1957515452114169929?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 18, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>However, even some of the most experienced European Trump whisperers couldn&rsquo;t hide all of their trepidation about Trump&rsquo;s push for a peace deal, particularly any agreement that hands Russia most, if not all, of Crimea.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The next steps ahead are the more complicated ones. Now the path is open. You opened it last Friday, but now the way is open for complicated negotiations. And to be honest, we all would like to see a ceasefire,&rdquo; Merz commented, subtly putting pressure on Trump to continue pushing for an immediate ceasefire ahead of peace negotiations, which he has strayed from in recent days. &ldquo;I can&rsquo;t imagine that the next meeting would take place without a ceasefire. So let&rsquo;s work on that, and let&rsquo;s try to put pressure on Russia, because the credibility of these efforts, these efforts we are undertaking today, are depending on at least a ceasefire from the beginning of the serious negotiations, from next step on.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Earlier on Monday, Trump had stated he didn&rsquo;t think a ceasefire was necessary, saying previous deals he had made to end wars did not involve one and signaling he was prioritizing securing a peace deal. However, during the multileader meeting, Trump said, &ldquo;All of us would obviously prefer an immediate ceasefire while we work on a lasting peace.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Another proposal to give Ukraine security guarantees, similar to NATO&rsquo;s Article 5 enshrinement of collective defense, did receive a warm reception during the multileader meeting, even as Russian officials reportedly decry the idea. Von der Leyen said the guarantees are &ldquo;important&rdquo; and that it was &ldquo;very good to hear&rdquo; they were being discussed.<\/p>\n<p>Meloni complimented Trump&rsquo;s commitment to ensuring Ukrainian security guarantees, but noted that Italy had been pushing for U.S. security guarantees for Ukraine for months.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m happy that we will begin from a proposal, which is the, let&rsquo;s say, &lsquo;Article Five&rsquo; model, which was Italian at the beginning. So we are always ready to bring our proposals for peace, for dialogue,&rdquo; she continued. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s something we have to build together to guarantee peace and to defend the security of our nation.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>By the time Trump kicked reporters out of the room, he predicted that negotiations could close within seven to fourteen days.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I think President Putin wants to find an answer to and we&rsquo;ll see, and in a certain period of time, not very far from now, a week or two weeks, we&rsquo;re going to know whether or not we&rsquo;re going to solve this or is this horrible fighting going to continue,&rdquo; the <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >president told reporters<\/a>. &ldquo;We&rsquo;ll do the best to get it ended, and I believe you have two willing parties, and usually that&rsquo;s good news.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3757571\/trump-zelensky-play-nice-takeaways-oval-office-redo\/\"><strong>TRUMP AND ZELENSKY PLAY NICE: TOP TAKEAWAYS FROM HIGH-STAKES OVAL OFFICE REDO<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Still, Trump did express some doubt that Putin and Zelensky would agree to peace terms within his time frame.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I want to make a deal, and we&rsquo;ll journey together, and we&rsquo;ll go over, and we&rsquo;ll see if it can be done, and it&rsquo;s possible it might not be able to be done,&rdquo; the president offered. &ldquo;On the other hand, it&rsquo;s possible it will save thousands and thousands of lives a week. And so it&rsquo;s something we really have to do, or at least we have to give it our best.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump, Europeans unite despite Ukraine peace tensions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2912,"featured_media":2476023,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/AP25230679927598.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[50419,5421,3634,23119,51792],"class_list":["post-2476022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-european-leaders","tag-resolution","tag-trump","tag-ukraine-war","tag-united-front"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/AP25230679927598.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2476022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2476022"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2476022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2476026,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2476022\/revisions\/2476026"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2476023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2476022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2476022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2476022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}