Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy will meet with EU and US leaders at a summit in Brussels, where they will discuss Ukraine's ongoing war with Russia and concerns over a potential trade war between the US and the EU.
Zelenskiy is invited to attend the first part of Brussels talks, with the threat of an EU-US trade war also set to dominate the summit. The leaders, including Taoiseach Simon Harris, will host Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy at the start of their talks in Brussels and will reaffirm their “unwavering commitment” to supporting Ukraine “for as long as it takes”, according to draft conclusions. Mr Trump has repeatedly called for a swift end to the nearly three-year-old war.
On Monday he said Mr Zelenskiy should be ready to reach a peace deal with Russian president Vladimir Putin, though he did not say whether this meant Kyiv ceding territory to Moscow as part of a negotiated settlement. Russian forces currently occupy nearly a fifth of Ukrainian territory and are making steady advances in the east of the country. “Russia must not prevail,” the EU draft conclusions say, adding that no initiative must be taken on Ukraine without Kyiv’s involvement. The leaders will also discuss wider EU-US relations over lunch amid concerns of a possible transatlantic trade war. Mr Trump has said the EU will “pay a big price” with tariffs for not buying enough US exports. He has already pledged hefty tariffs on three of the United States’s largest trading partners – Canada, Mexico and China. The EU knows it will not be spared. Some EU diplomats said the key for the bloc would be unity and avoidance of Washington conducting discussions or deals with single EU members – a copy of its largely successful unified strategy for dealing with Britain during Brexit negotiations. “The US might try individual negotiations but so far I have not seen countries falling for that,” one EU diplomat said. The EU will seek to point out that it is the United States’s second-biggest trading partner and a close ally with shared value
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