Zelensky gets a hero’s welcome in London ahead of emergency summit
“We’re happy and count on your support and really, really have [been] such partners,” he finished.
On Friday, Trump told Zelensky he was being “disrespectful” and “gambling with World War III”.
Zelensky’s meeting with US President Donald Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance at the White House on Friday.Credit: Bloomberg
“He disrespected the United States of America in its cherished Oval Office,” Trump said in a post on his Truth Social website after the meeting. “He can come back when he is ready for Peace.”
Most European countries have since come out in support of Ukraine, breaking with Washington as differences in the trans-Atlantic alliance, built over the past 80 years.
French President Emmanuel Macron also spoke with both Zelensky and Trump following their confrontation at the White House, according to news agency Agence France-Presse. In an interview with La Tribune Dimanche on Sunday, Macron called for a return to calm and respect, and emphasised the need to move forward, as the stakes were too high.
Downing Street is expecting attendees at Sunday’s summit to include Macron, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and Polish leader Donald Tusk, as well as Ursula von der Leyen, the European Commission president, and Mark Rutte, the secretary-general of NATO.
Meloni on Saturday called for an “immediate” summit between the US, the European Union and other Western allies to discuss the war in Ukraine.
She said the summit was necessary to “talk frankly about how we intend to deal with the great challenges of today, starting with Ukraine, which together we have defended in recent years, and those that we will be called upon to face in the future”.
