Updated August 18, 2025 at 4:09 AM MDT

WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Trump is hosting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the White House on Monday — and an unusually long list of European leaders will join them.

Among them: European Commission President Ursula Von der Leyen, French President Emmanuel Macron and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, in what is being seen as a united front to prevent Trump from pressuring Zelenskyy into an unfair agreement to end the war with Russia.

After Zelenskyy was excluded from Trump's summit in Alaska last week with Russian President Vladimir Putin, European leaders want to weigh in Trump's suggestions of a "land swap" — something that Zelenskyy has already said he opposes — and security guarantees to prevent Russia from invading again.

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