Macron reportedly warned European leaders against potential US betrayal on Ukraine — media report
French president Emmanuel Macron has reportedly warned European leaders that “there is a chance that the US will betray Ukraine on territory without clarity on security guarantees,” German magazine Der Spiegel reported, quoting a leaked note from a recent call between the European leaders.
Spiegel said it had obtained an English note summarising the call, featuring what it claims are direct quotes from some of the participants.
The magazine claimed that Macron talked about the tense moment in the talks to be “a big danger” for Zelenskyy, with German chancellor Friedrich Merz adding that the Ukrainian leader – also on the call – needed to be “very careful.”
“They are playing games with both you and us,” Merz was reported as saying, which the magazine concluded was a reference to Steve Witkoff’s mission to Moscow.
The magazine said that other leaders also expressed their concerns, with Finland’s Alexander Stubb reportedly saying “we must not leave Ukraine and Volodymyr alone with these guys.”
Even Nato secretary general, Mark Rutte – who in public is very complimentary of Trump – reportedly said that he agreed with Alexander “that we need to protect Volodymyr.”
There is an obvious health warning here: there is no easy way of verifying this note’s authenticity, and the Guardian has not been able to immediately confirm the report.
But Der Spiegel said that it spoke with “several” participants of the call, who confirmed it took place, and two of them reportedly said the quotes were “accurately reproduced.”
A spokesperson for Zelenskyy declined to comment, as did the Merz’s office, while the Élysée Palace contested the quotes attributed to Macron.
The full German story is here, and Spiegel also separately published an English version here, saying it contained original quotes from the note in English.
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The US special envoy Steve Witkoff will meet Ukraine’s national security council chief, Rustem Umerov, in Miami on Thursday as Washington steps up its diplomatic push to secure a pathway to peace in Ukraine.
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Witkoff, accompanied by Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, spent nearly five hours in talks with Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin on Tuesday. Moscow later said the meeting had not brought the sides any closer to a peace agreement.
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Trump on Wednesday described the discussions in Moscow as “reasonably good”, though he acknowledged that the path ahead for Ukraine peace talks remained unclear.
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I am also keeping an eye on Poland, where the country’s prime minister Donald Tusk has requested that the first agenda point during tomorrow’s sitting of the Polish parliament be held in private so he can make a statement on “state security.”
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In a post on X, Tusk said he has made a request to the Sejm speaker to sit in private as he wants to share “urgent information concerning state security.”
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He has not shared any further detail on what he wants to share.
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Poland has faced growing pressure from Russia in recent months, with a drone attack in September, and repeated sabotage attempts, including a rail sabotage attack last month, which Polish authorities called out as “state terrorism” by Moscow.
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Yesterday we reported that the EU’s former chief diplomat Federica Mogherini and two other people had been formally accused of fraud and corruption, the European prosecutor’s office has said.
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Well, she has now resigned from her post as rector of the prestigious College of Europe.
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