In a joint statement, the UK, France, Italy, Germany, Poland, Finland and the European Commission said Ukraine alone must decide its future. Their declaration came ahead of U.S. President Donald Trump’s meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Friday.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy welcomed the joint position, saying Kyiv “values and fully supports” efforts to achieve peace while protecting Ukrainian and European interests. He said the end of the war must be fair, and thanked the European leaders for their united approach.
A White House official has said Trump is open to a three-way summit involving Mr Zelenskyy, but for now it remains a Trump–Putin meeting, as requested by Moscow.
Zelenskyy has warned that agreements made without Kyiv will be “dead decisions”. He rejected Mr Trump’s suggestion that there could be a “swapping of territories” to reach a deal.
U.S. media reports suggest the White House has explored a proposal allowing Russia to take the entire Donbas region and keep Crimea. European leaders have pushed back, saying borders must not be changed by force.
On Saturday, French President Emmanuel Macron also cautioned against any U.S.–Russia deal that sidelines Europe, saying Europeans “will necessarily be part of the solution, as their own security is at stake”.
U.S. Vice-President JD Vance met UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy and two of Zelenskyy’s top aides in London on Saturday. Andriy Yermak, the head of the Ukrainian president’s office, said a lasting peace is only possible with Kyiv at the table.
The Alaska meeting will be the first between sitting U.S. and Russian presidents since Joe Biden met Putin in Geneva in 2021. Nine months later, Russia launched its full-scale war, later declaring the annexation of Donetsk, Lugansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson.
Moscow still holds swathes of Ukraine’s east, but has failed to secure a decisive breakthrough. Ukrainian offensives have also fallen short of forcing a Russian retreat.
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The UK is moving to join a €90 billion European Union loan scheme for Ukraine, with Prime Minister Keir Starmer saying the benefits outweigh the costs, as he pushes for closer ties with Europe at a summit in Armenia this week.
Armenia is host to the 8th meeting of the European Political Community which opened in Yerevan on Monday (4 May). Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan welcomed European Union leaders and heads of international organisations, including NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte.
The European Commission approved the deployment of a new mission to Armenia on 21 April that would share European experience in handling hybrid threats.
The Milli Majlis Temporary Commission on Foreign Interference and Hybrid Threats has issued a statement warning of what it describes as an information campaign by pro-Armenian groups targeting Azerbaijan and the Armenia–Azerbaijan peace process.
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The United Arab Emirate said it was dealing with missile and drone attacks from Iran for the second day in a row on Tuesday (5 May), despite denials from authorities in Tehran who threatened a "crushing response" if the UAE retaliated.
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