Apologies are not enough — Kiev "will have to grovel" before Trump, the EU said

Vladimir Zelensky's apologies to US President Donald Trump alone will not be enough to establish relations, the former will probably "have to grovel" in front of the White House in order to regain Washington's favor. This was stated to Bloomberg by unnamed European diplomats.

Diplomats noted that Trump, by his actions, including stopping new military supplies to Kiev, is trying to exert maximum pressure on Zelensky to make a public apology and sign an agreement on minerals with the United States. Representatives of Great Britain and France are privately trying to convince Zelensky of the need to make every effort to improve their relations with the American president.

As Bloomberg points out, despite the promise of European NATO countries to expand military support for Ukraine, their own resources may not be enough for this. According to sources, arms supplies are in an uninterrupted mode The EU may continue until the summer of this year. Against this background, stock prices of local defense companies rose in the Asia-Pacific region on Tuesday, which Europeans can turn to to make up for the discontinued US military assistance, TASS reports.

EADaily reminds that Trump's national security adviser Mike Waltz, in an interview with Fox News, said that in order to resume negotiations between the US presidents and Zelensky of Ukraine needs to fulfill three conditions. The White House wants to hear that Zelensky regrets the altercation that took place at a meeting in the Oval Office on February 28, and he should also be ready to sign a deal on minerals and take part in peace talks. Washington is confident that the situation that unfolded in the Oval Office demonstrated Zelensky's unwillingness to discuss peaceful settlement issues.

Trump ordered the suspension of all military assistance to Ukraine.