Financial Times: EU leaders don’t see Trump’s willingness to put pressure on the Kremlin owner

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The European leaders, who Donald Trump spoke after a call with Vladimir Putin on May 19, is unpleasant that the US President seems to be not ready to put pressure on the Kremlin owner.

Source: About it Financial Times reported a source aware of the conversation, writes “European Truth”

Details: After talking to Putin Trump, he spoke about its content to the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky, as well as the leaders of the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Finland and the President of the European Commission.

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The FT source says that the leaders who participated in the telephone conversation were « unpleasant » with the description of Trump’s results of his call with Putin.

It was obvious that Trump « was not ready to put more pressure » on Putin, to seriously approach the negotiations, adding the same source.

According to FT, in European capitals also fear that Trump can conclude an agreement with Putin, which will satisfy the maximalist demands of the latter and contradict Ukraine’s interests.

Recall that US President Donald Trump after talking to Vladimir Putin on May 19 stated that Ukraine and Russia « immediately » will start negotiations about ceasefire.

In his post, the US President did not mention the administration’s demand for unconditional ceasefire, which Putin openly rejectednor on potential sanction pressure in the case of Moscow to make concessions.

After that Trump spent an hourly conversation with Vladimir Zelensky and European leaders.