By Julia Payne JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -Finland’s President Alexander Stubb told Reuters in an interview on Sunday on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Johannesburg that he thought U.S. President Donald Trump was working very hard to find a solution to the war in Ukraine. European, Ukrainian and U.S. officials are in Geneva today to […]
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Finland’s Stubb says Trump ‘working very hard’ to find solution to war in Ukraine
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By Julia Payne
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -Finland’s President Alexander Stubb told Reuters in an interview on Sunday on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Johannesburg that he thought U.S. President Donald Trump was working very hard to find a solution to the war in Ukraine.
European, Ukrainian and U.S. officials are in Geneva today to discuss a draft plan presented by Washington to end the war in Ukraine, which Kyiv and its allies say hands major concessions to Moscow.
“Prime Minister [Giorgia] Meloni and I had the opportunity to speak with him this morning. And of course, we spoke about the 28 point plan. He’s working very hard to get a peace agreement, to get a cease fire, and he wanted to hear what was going on here in Johannesburg,” Stubb said.
Many peace plans had been “floated around”, he said, but he declined to give any indication of EU “red lines” for any potential peace agreement.
He added that Ukraine was holding up well to the Russians who have made few advances since the U.S.-Russia summit in Alaska.
EU leaders will meet in Angola on Monday to discuss Ukraine.
(Reporting by Julia Payne and Sfundo Parakozov;Writing by Alexander Winning and Olivia Kumwenda-Mtambo; Editing by Alexandra Hudson)