Several European leaders have gone to support the Ukrainian president, Volodimir Zelenski, after his heated discussion with Donald Trump this Friday at the White House, which he has abandoned without signing the agreement on rare earths as planned.
The first to do so has been the Polish Prime Minister, Donald Tusk, who has assured Zelenski and the Ukrainians who are not alone. For his part, the president of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has written in several languages in X: “Ukraine, Spain is with you.”
More extensive has been the French president, Emmanuel Macron, of official visit in Portugal. “You have to thank all those who have helped and we must respect those who have been fighting from the beginning,” he said in statements to the press after holding a meeting with the Portuguese Prime Minister, Luís Montenegro.
“There is an aggressor that is Russia and an assaulted people who are Ukraine (…) are simple things, but it is good to remember them at times like these,” Macron stressed, who has told that he plans to call Zelenski on the phone this Friday.
The presidents of the European Council, António Costa, of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, and of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola, have stood out in the same message as the “dignity” of Zelenski during the meeting “honor the courage of the Ukrainians.”
“Be strong, be brave, do not be afraid. You will never be alone, dear president Volodimir Zelenski. We will continue working with you for a fair and lasting peace,” you have written in X.
The high representative of the European Union for foreign policy, Kaja Kallas, who has assured that what happened on Friday in the Oval Office of the White House has “clear that the free world needs a new leader” and corresponds to the Europeans “accept this challenge”.
“Ukraine is Europe! We support Ukraine. We will intensify our support for Ukraine so that he can continue fighting the aggressor,” he announced.
The acting chancellor of Germany, Olaf Scholz, on his own, has remarked in his social networks that “nobody wants peace more than Ukrainian citizens”, in clear allusion to the words of a Trump who has questioned that Zelenski is prepared to sit down to negotiate the end of the conflict.
“Ukraine can trust Germany and Europe,” said Scholz, who has valued that during these years kyiv and his allies have been working together “to find a path to lasting and fair peace.”
For its part, Montenegro has written in X that “Ukraine can always count on Portugal”, while Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala said they will continue to support Ukraine. “We are on the side of the free world,” he said.
In that line, the messages of the president of Lithuania, Gypsy Nauseda-“Ukraine, will never walk alone”-, of Prime Minister Letona, Evika Silina, and the Head of Swedish Government, Ulf Kristersson, who stressed that Ukraine is not only fighting for his freedom, “but also for that of all of Europe.”
Other countries such as Finland, the Netherlands, Denmark, Belgium, Norway, or Estonia, among others, have influenced this idea and have remarked that they will remain on the side of the Ukrainians.
What initially began as a peaceful conversation ended up degenerating in a tense discussion before the media at the time the question of the origins of war and the American support began to appear.
Trump and Vice President JD Vance have reproached Zelenski not to be thanking the United States enough and the US president has escaped that he doubts that the Ukrainian is really interested in reaching peace.
After the heated discussion, Trump met with his own and it was when he decided that Zelenski and his delegation had to leave the presidential residence, according to White House sources they have revealed to the CNN chain.