Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky returns to the White House on Monday for the first time since his infamous blowup with President Donald Trump earlier this year, which led to a rupture in relations that threatened to derail Kyiv’s war effort.
This time, however, Zelensky will be accompanied by at least five European heads of state, who have rallied around the Ukrainian leader to ease pressure from Trump as the president appears eager to forge a final deal to end the war regardless of the cost to Ukraine.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, French President Emmanuel Macron, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, Finnish President Alexander Stubb, and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen all lined up on Sunday to announce they woul