President Emmanuel Macron of France became the first European leader to meet Trump in the White House on Monday, while the continent collects his arguments to defend Ukraine.
Trump has sent shock waves through Europe by criticizing the Ukrainian president and claiming that Ukraine started war instead of Russia.
Before his visit, Macron said he would present Trump arguments that it was not in his interest to bow to Moscow.
“I will tell him: deep down you can't be weak in the face of President (Putin). It is not you, it is not what you were made of and it is not in your interests, “he said during a question and answer session on social media.
The two started the day at a conference call with G7 leaders on the day that marked the third anniversary of the entire Russian invasion of Ukraine.
He is tagged by British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who will be in the White House on Thursday.
He viewed his case just before Macron's arrival, revealed new sanctions on Moscow and said that Trump had changed the worldwide conversation “around Ukraine.
“We have to keep calling the economic pressure to get Putin at a point where he is not only ready to talk, but to make concessions,” he said during an external address to a meeting of the allies of Ukraine.
French President Emmanuel Macron arrives in the White House on Monday morning
British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer announced new sanctions on Moscow
European leaders in a memorial for Ukrainian victims of the Russian invasion on the third anniversary of the start of the war
Aides later clarified that Starmer meant that Trump had changed the conversation 'for the better'.
The UK and France represent the nuclear powers of Europe. And their leaders have indicated that they are ready to provide help with Ukraine and to include a European military force to protect a peace agreement.
Trump also met the Polish president on the sidelines of a conservative conference on Saturday.
It illustrates the way in which Trump has raised the American position on Ukraine with a stroke.
Where the Biden government made it difficult for Moscow and her autocratic leader Putin to insulate, Trump changed direction with a 90-minute phone in the Russian leader earlier this month.
Russian officials say they have already started preparing for a Trump-Putin top.
European leaders, closer to the war than Trump, fear that Putin will get what he wants if the US president spends a peace agreement without Ukrainians at the table at every step.
And relationships between Trump and the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zensky Sentor after he had rejected a deal that would give Washington access to deposits of rare earth minerals, crucial for the production of mobile phones and new Earth Technologies.
