Emmanuel Macron, Friedrich Merz and others will aim to push back against ceding of Ukraine territory in ‘peace plan’

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European leaders will join Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, at a White House meeting on Monday with Donald Trump, in a coordinated effort to push back on a US-endorsed “peace plan” that would allow Russia to take further Ukrainian territory.

The French president, Emmanuel Macron, Germany’s chancellor, Fredrich Merz, the European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, and the Finnish president, Alexander Stubb, will accompany Zelenskyy in the Oval Office. Italy’s prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, will also attend.