NATO chief Mark Rutte told the BBC that Zelenskyy must “find a way” to restore his relationship with Trump. “We have to respect” what Trump has done for Ukraine so far, Rutte told the broadcaster.
Zelenskyy was meeting with U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer in Downing Street Saturday evening, British media reported. Starmer is hosting the Sunday summit with European leaders to discuss security assurances for Ukraine.
Starmer reiterated the U.K.’s support for Ukraine, saying “we stand with Ukraine for as long as it may take,” the BBC reported. “And as you heard from the cheers on the street outside, you have full backing across the United Kingdom,” Starmer told the Ukrainian leader.
Zelensky thanked Starmer for his support, and thanked King Charles III for accepting a meeting with him on Sunday.
Ahead of that London meeting, right-wing Reform UK leader Nigel Farage called Friday’s bust-up at the White House “regrettable” and said it “will make Putin feel like the winner,” in a post on X.
“But this is not the end of the story, far from it. A peace deal is essential and Ukraine needs the right security guarantees,” Farage said.
Meanwhile, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock called for Europe to show decisive leadership in the wake of the Oval Office clash between Trump and Zelenskyy. Baerbock on Saturday warned of a “new era of ruthlessness” following Trump’s public humiliation of the Ukrainian president and the U.S. administration’s shifting stance on Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.
“A ruthless time has begun, in which we must defend the rules-based international order and the strength of law more than ever against the power of the strongest,” Baerbock said.