President Donald Trump held a “friendly” 30-minute call with French President Emmanuel Macron about the war in Ukraine on Monday, one White House official told The Hill.
Specifics about the conversation were not reported.
The call comes as European leaders held an emergency meeting in Paris on Monday about continued support for the war as the United States and Russian diplomats meet in Saudi Arabia to discuss a peace deal.
However, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he would “not recognize such agreements” between the U.S. and Russia, according to The Telegraph.
Meanwhile, according to former American ambassador to NATO, Ivo Daalder, the meeting between European leaders in Paris was about continuing the war.
The Europeans, Daalder told The New York Times, “have realized they’re in this boat together and can no longer rely on the U.S., and that the concern that Trump and Putin will do a deal over their heads is real.”
