European leaders said on Saturday, August 16, “ready to maintain the pressure” on Russia through the sanctions, the day after the summit between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin.
“We will continue to strengthen the specific sanctions and economic measures to weigh the economy of the Russian war, until the establishment of a fair and sustainable peace,” they said in a particular statement signed in particular by the president of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen, the French president Emmanuel Macron and the German chancellor Friedrich Merz.
The European leaders also made sure they were ready to facilitate a summit between Donald Trump, Volodymyr Zelensky and Vladimir Putin after the meeting between the US president and his Russian counterpart on the conflict in Ukraine.
“We are (…) ready to work with presidents Trump and Zelensky for a trilateral summit, with the support of Europe,” they wrote in the press release.
Volodymyr Zelensky in Washington on Monday
Donald Trump informed the Europeans at dawn on Saturday morning the content of his discussions with the Russian president. The president of the United States said in a message on his social social network, which now favored a peace agreement to end the war without going through the stage of a high fire.
Donald Trump also mentioned a possible meeting at three. “President Zelensky will come to Washington, at the Oval office on Monday afternoon. If everything is going well, then we will organize a meeting with President Putin,” he wrote on his Truth social network.
Source: BFM TV
