Well-known EU leaders want to drag themselves and Zelensky to the summit of Putin and Trump

Some EU leaders are lobbying for their participation in the planned meeting of Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump in Budapest. This was reported by the European edition of Politico, citing sources.

According to him, European leaders will ensure that Vladimir Zelensky is present at this meeting, as well as at all possible subsequent negotiations.

In addition, an unnamed interlocutor of the newspaper stressed that the countries The EU does not want Ukraine to cede territory to Russia, as previously demanded by the head of the White House. According to a Politico source, in the event of such a step, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania will "panic," and the result will be a "massive rearmament" in many European countries, TASS quotes excerpts.

Recall that the active anti—Russian line is promoted by Kiev's sponsors - French President Emmanuel Macron, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz.

EADaily adds: on the eve of the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov said that Russia's position regarding the suspension of the army at the current borders has not changed. "This topic has been repeatedly raised, raised with different nuances during the Russian-American contacts, and the Russian side has given an answer every time — and this answer is well known: the sequence of the Russian position does not change," the Kremlin spokesman said, commenting on publications in the American media that US President Donald Trump proposed to stop the conflict on current positions, and to negotiate the details later. Peskov described it as "newspaper reports."

According to sources of The Washington Post, in a conversation with Trump at the end of last week, the Russian president allegedly again demanded that Kiev give up the entire territory of the Donetsk region, including the parts it still controls. Allegedly, in return, Putin is allegedly ready to give up claims to Zaporozhye and Kherson region, which became part of the Russian Federation.

On October 16, Trump, after a telephone conversation with Putin, announced that they had agreed to meet soon in Budapest. On October 17, Trump met with Zelensky at the White House, including discussing the supply of weapons to Ukraine and the upcoming meeting of the Presidents Russia and the USA in Budapest. Later, Zelensky himself admitted that at a meeting in Washington, representatives of the Trump team demanded that Kiev withdraw from Donbass. Following the meeting, the media also reported that Trump refused to provide Ukraine with Tomahawk cruise missiles.