European nations are seeking to talk to Donald Trump ahead of the U.S. president’s planned meeting in Alaska with Russian leader Vladimir Putin, according to people familiar with the matter.

The leaders want to speak to him before Friday, when Trump and Putin are due to meet, said the people, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss private deliberations.

Any conversation would follow an intense weekend of diplomacy between U.S., Ukrainian and European officials, which included meetings in the UK Saturday with Vice President JD Vance and British Foreign Secretary David Lammy.

EU ambassadors were briefed on the talks on Sunday and the bloc’s foreign ministers are scheduled to convene virtually on Monday. The White House didn’t immediately reply to a request for comment on a potenti

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