EU and UK to be at Zelenskyy’s side in Washington for meeting with Trump

Emmanuel Macron, Friedrich Merz and others will aim to push back against ceding of Ukraine territory in ‘peace plan’

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will be joined by UK prime minister Keir Starmer, French President Emmanuel Macron, and other European leaders during his trip to Washington. File Picture: PA

European leaders including Emmanuel Macron and Keir Starmer will join Volodymyr Zelenskyy at a White House meeting with Donald Trump on Monday in an extraordinary joint effort to push back on a US-backed plan that would allow Russia to take further Ukrainian territory

Germany’s chancellor, Friedrich Merz, Italy’s PM, Giorgia Meloni, and the Finnish president, Alexander Stubb, will also accompany Zelenskyy in the Oval Office, as will Nato’s secretary general, Mark Rutte, and the European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen.