Speaking with French president Emmanuel Macron following the vote, Donald Trump said Vladimir Putin would accept European peacekeepers in Ukraine as part of a potential deal to end the war.
The US president said the Ukraine war could end ‘within weeks, if we’re smart’ and claimed things could escalate into a third world war if things continue, which ‘we don’t want either’, he added.
Sir Keir Starmer has previously said he would be willing to put British troops on the ground as part of security guarantees that could end the war between Russia and Ukraine.
Macron said ahead of the meeting he intended to tell Trump it’s in the joint interest of Americans and Europeans not to show weakness to Putin during US-led negotiations to end the war in Ukraine.
Trump said he did not see a problem with European troops being sent to Ukraine, and said he had raised the idea with Putin.
