Before meeting with Trump, Zelenskyy will get advice from partners – Merz

European leaders to advise the president Volodymyr Zelenskyy the day before his talks at the White House with the US president Donald Trump. This was announced by the German chancellor Friedrich Merz in an interview with ntv.

After the previous meeting between Zelenskyy and Trump in the Oval Office ended in a scandal, Merz considers it his duty to give the President of Ukraine advice.

"He [Zelenskyy] also saw that my meeting with Donald Trump went quite differently, than his meeting. We have already discussed this in detail," the chancellor said.

According to him, the partners and Zelenskyy will have a conversation in the afternoon of August 17: "We will give him some good advice together."

The politician said that the partners want to "do their best" to support the Ukrainian leader on the way to a possible trilateral meeting with the dictator Vladimir Putin and Trump.

It should be noted that after the meeting in the Oval Office, the heads of state and Vatican City and during the NATO summit in The Hague – and both of these events went off without a hitch.

• on August 17, an online meeting of the "coalition of the willing" will be held to discuss the steps to achieve peace in the Russian-Ukrainian war. The event is organized by France, Britain and Germany.
• Atlantic Council analyst Peter Dickinson said LIGA.net that in the White House, Zelenskyy "should be very diplomatic" to show Trump that he really wants peace, but not ready to capitulate.
• On the summit between the US president and the dictator in Alaska, as well as further developments read in the chronicle by LIGA.net.