EU leaders will look Thursday to greenlight a potential mammoth new loan for Ukraine using Russian frozen assets, in a bid to bolster Kyiv as US President Donald Trump vacillates on peace efforts with Moscow.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will join a summit of the EU’s 27 leaders in Brussels — before heading to London on Friday — as Europe presses to shore up support after Trump put on ice a proposed meeting with Russia’s Vladimir Putin in Budapest.

Zelensky and his key backers are seeking to seize on Trump’s demand for Russia and Ukraine to stop fighting along the current front line and shift the onus from Kyiv to Moscow to make concessions.

Hopes that Trump could take against Putin got a boost Wednesday when US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Washington would unveil “a

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