G7 leaders will hold a crucial morning session with President Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday at the Evian summit in France, seeking a unified response to Russia’s war against Ukraine.
The meeting comes as US President Donald Trump turns his attention from the Middle East back to Eastern Europe, after announcing a deal with Iran aimed at halting hostilities and reopening the strategic Strait of Hormuz.
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European leaders are expected to press Trump to maintain pressure on Moscow and avoid forcing Kyiv into concessions.
Zelensky demands decisive response to strikes
Zelensky arrived at the summit after urging G7 leaders to deliver a “decisive and substantive” response to Russia’s latest wave of strikes. The attacks killed 11 people and sparked a major fire at Kyiv’s historic Dormition Cathedral inside the Pechersk Lavra.
The president said Monday that Ukraine had proposed a high-level meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of the G7 summit to discuss ending the war, but Moscow rejected the offer.
“We offered Putin a meeting anywhere [so] real decisions to end the war could be made. He does not want it,” Zelensky wrote on X after his intervention at the EU Intergovernmental Conference.
Trump, who spoke by phone with both Zelensky and Putin, struck an optimistic tone upon arrival.
“Maybe we can do something,” Trump said regarding Ukraine.
“They’re both open to it,” he added. “I had two very good conversations yesterday.”
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