The plane lifted from Washington DC at 04.53 Swedish time and landed at Stanstead in London at 12.03 on Saturday, according to Flightware.
The Ukrainian president’s stay in the United States was prematurely interrupted after disgust with Donald Trump and JD Vance on Friday. After the brawl, Zelenskyj must have left the White House in a black car and then canceled his planned speech at the conservative think tank Hudson Institute, writes TT.
Thanks Trump on x
In several posts on X on Saturday, Zelenskyj writes that he still thanks Donald Trump, the United States and the American people for the support and that he is ready to sign the mineral agreement but that Ukraine also needs security guarantees.
“It is crucial for us to get President Trump’s support. He wants to end the war, but no one wants peace more than us, ”Zelenskyj writes on the platform.
At the same time, he wants an American support that is more steady.
“A ceasefire without security guarantees is dangerous to Ukraine,” the president writes.
At the place of summit
Zelenskyj’s participation at the London summit has been planned before. It is Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer who has taken the initiative for the meeting, which will be about the Ukraine War and Europe’s security.
Starmer confirmed late on Friday that he spoke to both Trump and Zelenskyj after their meeting in the White House and that the support for Ukraine remains “steadfast”, reports Kyiv Independent.
Zelenskyj and Starmer will meet on 10 Downing Street already during Saturday afternoon, reports Sky News.
Several European leaders have expressed their support for Ukraine and President Zelenskyj after the hot meeting, including Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson who expressed his support on X:
“A united Sweden is behind our friends in Ukraine. From the invasion’s introduction, during these three war years, until today – and into the future. Slava Ukraini! ” he wrote in a post on the platform on Friday.
Sweden will attend Sunday’s summit together with some 20 European leaders.