Leaders are lobbying JD Vance with an alternative path to peace, fearing the meeting with Putin could redraw the map
European leaders were pulling together an alternative peace plan for Ukraine on Saturday night before Donald Trump’s summit with Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Friday.
The US president will meet Putin on American soil without President Zelensky, to seek an end to the war. Trump has strongly suggested a deal would involve Kyiv conceding territory, but in an address to the nation yesterday morning, Zelensky insisted that Ukrainians “will not gift their land to the occupier”.
Hours later JD Vance, the US vice-president, outlined Trump’s plan for the summit to senior European and Ukrainian officials at a meeting co-hosted by David Lammy at Chevening, the foreign secretary’s mansion in Kent.
