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European leaders and NATO announced on Sunday that they will join President Folodimir Zelinski in Washington Decisive talks with President TrumpHe gathered around the Ukrainian leader after being excluded from Mr. Trump summit With Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The noticeable step – with a European leader one after the other announced that it will be on the Zelinski side when he travels to the White House on Monday – a clear effort to ensure that the meeting is going better than another in February, when Trump Tobis, Ukrainian President In the face of a hot oval office.

“The Europeans are afraid of the repetition of the scene of the Oval Office and therefore they want to support Mr. Zellinski to the extreme,” said retired French general, Dominic Trinkandand, former head of the military mission in France at the United Nations.

He said in an interview on the phone: “It is a struggle for power and a force position that might work with Trump,” he said in an interview over the phone.

It is possible that the presence of European leaders in the Zelinski team, indicating Europe’s support for Ukraine, will help reduce concerns in Kiev and in other European capitals that Ukraine risks railways in a peace deal that Mr. Trump says he wants to mediate in Russia.

It was not immediately clear whether each of them would participate in the actual meeting with Mr. Trump.

European Commission President Ursula von der Layen announced on X that she will participate in the talks, “at the request of President Zelinski.”

Mark Ritti, Secretary -General of the NATO Military Alliance, said at the meeting.

President Emmanuel Macron’s office announced that the French leader will travel on Monday to Washington “on the side of President Zelinski” although he was not immediately determined that he would be at the meeting.

German Chancellor Friedrich Mirz will also be part of the European Group, but the statement from his office did not specify that he will be in conversations with Mr. Trump.

The combined trip confirmed the design of European leaders to ensure that Europe has a voice in Mr. Trump’s attempt to make peace, after the US President’s summit on Friday with Putin-who was not invited to Zelinski.