Donald Trump continues to assist kyiv and his European partners, after having launched live bilateral negotiations with Moscow on the fate of Ukraine from Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, February 18. He now believes that it is Russia that has “cards in hand” concerning the outcome of the Ukrainian invasion. Emmanuel Macron, who will bring together French party leaders this Thursday, February 20 to debate the “existential threat” that Russia represents for Europeans, could go to Washington next Monday to make the voice of Europe heard at home -White.
Info to remember
⇒ Donald Trump believes that Russia “has cards in hand” in negotiations on the future of Ukraine
⇒ Emmanuel Macron brings together party leaders in the face of the Russian “threat” this Thursday
⇒ The French president could go to Washington next Monday, according to Donald Trump
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Donald Trump accuses Ukraine of having abused his secretary to the Treasury visiting kyiv
The American president accused Ukraine on Wednesday of having abused the secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent last week during his visit to kyiv to meet the president Volodymyr Zelensky. “Scott Bessent actually went there and was treated quite empty, because in substance, they told him ‘no’. And Zelensky was sleeping and was unavailable to meet him,” Donald Trump told the press, Although the two men actually met on February 12.
The displacement of Scott Bessent to kyiv was the first visit of a member of the new American administration in Ukraine, which Donald Trump ensures that it has successfully negotiated an end of the war with Russia “.
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Emmanuel Macron brings together party leaders
Emmanuel Macron will receive party leaders this Thursday to take stock of the situation in Ukraine and additional defense efforts to provide while Russia becomes an “existential threat”, in full rapprochement with Donald Trump. On the left, Manuel Bompard (LFI), Fabien Roussel (PCF), Marine Tondelier (Ecologists), Olivier Faure (PS) and Guillaume Lacroix (Radical Left Party) said that they would go at 11:00 am at the Elysée. In terms of national rally, Louis Aliot will be present. Gabriel Attal (Renaissance) and Marc Fesneau (Modem) are also expected.
These consultations “in Saint-Denis format” should be followed by a debate without vote, in early March in the Parliament, on the consequences of the geopolitical context in Europe for France. The executive began to prepare opinion for the need for a greater defense effort while peace in Ukraine sketched by Donald Trump could look like a capitulation for kyiv.
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A “constructive” meeting between Volodymyr Zelensky and Keith Kellogg?
Volodymyr Zelensky is due to meet on Thursday the American special envoy Keith Kellogg, hoping for “constructive” work despite the very strong criticism launched by Donald Trump against the Ukrainian president. The latter stressed that it was up to the United States “to be with Putin or to be with peace”. “It is very important for us that this meeting and our work with America in general are constructive,” said the Ukrainian leader in his daily speech.
It was the first speech of the Ukrainian leader concerning the United States since the new volley of violent criticisms launched by President Donald Trump – who accused the day before Zelensky of being an “dictator without elections” – raising fears of an American-Ukrainian break.
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For Donald Trump, Russia “has cards in hand”
“I think the Russians want war to end,” said Donald Trump on Wednesday evening. “But I think they have a little cards in hand because they have taken many territories, so they have cards in hand,” he continued, speaking to the press on the presidential plane, Regarding negotiations to try to end the war in Ukraine, triggered by the Russian invasion almost three years ago.
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Emmanuel Macron in the White House “maybe on Monday maybe”
Donald Trump confirmed the arrival in Washington on Wednesday evening, from “perhaps on Monday,” of his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron on Monday on Monday, against the backdrop of dissection regarding the settlement of the conflict in Ukraine.
The Trump administration launched first direct talks with Russia, without inviting kyiv or Europeans, who fear an agreement in their back and against their interests. President Emmanuel Macron said on Wednesday that the position of France and its partners on Ukraine and European security was “clear and united”, after having continued its consultations with European and non-European countries.