"European leaders including Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron will meet Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Monday in a show of support hosted by the German chancellor, Friedrich Merz, as the US pushes for a swift end to the war in Ukraine. The British prime minister, French president and the heads of Nato and the EU, who have criticised previous US proposals to end the Russian invasion as too favourable to Moscow, are set to convene with Zelenskyy on Monday evening at Merz's offices in central Berlin."
"A German government spokesperson said the US president Donald Trump's special envoy, Steve Witkoff, and his son-in-law Jared Kushner, who were holding a second round of peace talks with Zelenskyy in the German capital on Monday, had also been invited to the working dinner. Witkoff said in a social media post a lot of progress was made after he and Kushner met Zelenskyy for five and a half hours at Merz's chancellery on Sunday, without disclosing details."
European leaders including Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron will meet Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Berlin on Monday hosted by German chancellor Friedrich Merz. Senior British, French, Nato and EU leaders will convene at Merz's offices. US special envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner were invited and held a separate peace round, with Witkoff saying progress followed a five-and-a-half-hour meeting. A photograph showed Merz sitting beside Zelenskyy while Witkoff and Kushner sat opposite. President Trump has pressed for a swift end to the war, first targeting Thanksgiving then Christmas. Major obstacles include a dispute over control of the Donbas region. Zelenskyy expressed readiness to drop his country's bid to join Nato.
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