European leaders and Ukraine’s allies issued a careful warning to U.S. President Donald Trump early Tuesday over his lukewarm support for Kyiv, backing his call to halt fighting but rejecting any suggestion of territorial concessions to Moscow.
In a joint statement signed by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, French President Emmanuel Macron, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, and other European leaders, the group declared themselves “united in our desire for a just and lasting peace.”
The leaders said they “strongly support President Trump’s position that the fighting should stop immediately,” suggesting that the current line of contact could serve as a starting point for negotiations, but they warned that “international borders must not be changed by force,” — a veiled rebuke to Trump’s openness to freezing the war along Russian-occupied front lines.