French President Emmanuel Macron told President Donald Trump on Monday that Europe is ready to “step up” defense spending but said he hoped for “strong” US involvement in securing any peace settlement in Ukraine.
Macron said he and Trump would discuss “long-lasting peace” in Ukraine but that that Kyiv “must be involved” in talks to end the war.
Trump said Russia was ready to accept European troops deployed in Ukraine as guarantors of a deal to end fighting, and said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky could visit the White House as early as “this week or next.”
