{"id":47821,"date":"2025-02-10T17:05:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-10T17:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2025\/02\/10\/us-officials-bound-for-europe-for-top-level-talks-on-ukraine\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T16:41:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T16:41:26","slug":"us-officials-bound-for-europe-for-top-level-talks-on-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/global\/europe\/2025\/02\/10\/us-officials-bound-for-europe-for-top-level-talks-on-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"US officials bound for Europe for top-level talks on Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President Donald Trump\u2019s national security adviser said Sunday that top administration officials will meet with European officials this week about how to end the war in Ukraine, nearly three years after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/flashpoints\/ukraine\/\" target=\"_blank\">Russia launched an all-out invasion.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Less than a day earlier, the New York Post reported that Trump had a phone call with <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/vladimir-putin\" target=\"_blank\">Russian leader Vladimir Putin<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/putin-trump-russia-ukraine-war-51adbc0cde5a9ca0eaabf46153eb9580\" target=\"_blank\">discuss steps toward a negotiated solution<\/a>. Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One as he flew to the Super Bowl in New Orleans, Trump declined to discuss his reported phone conversation with Putin.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/global\/europe\/2025\/02\/06\/uk-to-chair-next-meeting-of-ukraine-military-aid-group\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP24351418237714.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">UK to chair next meeting of Ukraine military aid group<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">The meeting next week will mark the first time that an American defense secretary has not convened the Ukraine Defense Contact Group.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI don\u2019t want to do that. We\u2019re trying to end that war. It\u2019s a war that would have never happened if I were president, it would have never happened, but we\u2019re making progress. But I can\u2019t tell you,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Asked to clarify whether his conversations with Putin took place before he took office or after, Trump said, \u201cI\u2019ve had it. Let\u2019s just say I\u2019ve had it. And I expect to have many more conversations. We have to get that war ended. It\u2019s going to end.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There was no immediate confirmation of the call by the Kremlin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Waltz: Europe needs to take bigger role in the conflict<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a television interview, National Security Adviser Mike Waltz said the Russian economy is not doing well and that Trump \u201cis prepared to tax, to tariff, to sanction\u201d Moscow to get Putin to the negotiating table. Waltz also underscored that the Trump administration is looking to use this week\u2019s engagements to begin talks on clawing back some of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2024\/12\/30\/biden-announces-nearly-25-billion-in-military-aid-for-ukraine\/\" target=\"_blank\">United States\u2019 assistance to Ukraine<\/a>. He said European allies will also need to take a greater role in supporting Ukraine going forward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe need to recoup those costs and that is going to be a partnership with the Ukrainians in terms of their natural resources and their oil and gas and also buying ours,\u201d Waltz said in an appearance on NBC\u2019s Meet the Press. \u201cThose conversations are going to happen this week. And I think an underlying principle here is that the Europeans have to own this conflict going forward. President Trump is going to end it. And then in terms of security guarantees, that is squarely going to be with the Europeans.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Vice President JD Vance will be in Paris on Monday for an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c4isrnet.com\/pentagon\/2025\/01\/24\/power-generation-challenges-could-overshadow-stargate-ai-initiative\/\" target=\"_blank\">artificial intelligence<\/a> summit that\u2019s gathering government officials and will head later in the week to the Munich Security Conference, where Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will lead the battle-weary country\u2019s delegation. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Trump\u2019s special envoy on Ukraine and Russia, Keith Kellogg, will also be in Munich.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Wednesday, Hegseth will join the main international forum for drumming up weapons and ammunition for Ukraine. He&#8217;s set to participate in a meeting of NATO defense ministers in Brussels the following day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Kyiv under pressure as Russian troops advance and Trump floats talks with Putin<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Putin is closer than ever to achieving his objectives in battle-weary Ukraine, with little incentive to come to the negotiating table, no matter how much Trump might cajole or threaten him, <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/putin-trump-russia-ukraine-war-51adbc0cde5a9ca0eaabf46153eb9580\" target=\"_blank\">according to Russian and Western experts interviewed by The Associated Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Putin has previously said Trump was <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/russia-putin-trump-zelenskyy-ukraine-war-talks-0892a64bd9080555094acceddbc37346\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cclever and pragmatic,\u201d<\/a> and even parroted his false claims of having won the 2020 election. Trump\u2019s opening gambit was to call Putin \u201csmart\u201d and to threaten Russia with tariffs and oil price cuts, which the Kremlin brushed off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump boasted during the presidential election campaign that he could end the war in 24 hours, which later became six months. He\u2019s indicated the U.S. is <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-putin-russia-ukraine-6c5a098488e64cd7643a89f4aaacd249\" target=\"_blank\">talking to Russia about Ukraine<\/a> without Kyiv\u2019s input, saying his administration already had \u201cvery serious\u201d discussions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That would run counter to the Biden administration\u2019s position that echoed Zelenskyy\u2019s call of \u201cNothing about Ukraine without Ukraine.\u201d The Ukrainian leader has suggested any peace deal reached without Kyiv\u2019s input would send the dangerous signal that adventurism pays to authoritarian leaders in China, North Korea and Iran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meanwhile, Trump has hinted he and Putin could soon take \u201csignificant\u201d action toward ending the war, in which Russia is suffering heavy casualties daily while its economy endures stiff Western sanctions, inflation and a serious labor shortage. But the economy has not collapsed, and because Putin has unleashed the harshest crackdown on dissent since Soviet times, he faces no domestic pressure to end the war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Ukraine hopes to make its case in Munich<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Andriy Yermak, a top Zelenskyy adviser who will attend the Munich security conference, <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/ukraine-russia-war-15a42b01bd87e1bef5bd40ae5c910280\" target=\"_blank\">has told AP the Ukrainian delegation will use its platform to present Kyiv\u2019s position on ending the war<\/a>. He said Kyiv hopes to discuss what security guarantees could be put in place to prevent repeated aggression by Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Munich summit comes at a pivotal moment for Ukraine, which is striving to establish a relationship with the new U.S. administration, a key partner during its yearslong war against Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><i>Associated Press writers Aamer Madhani in Paris and Darlene Superville, traveling aboard Air Force One, contributed.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top Trump administration officials will meet with European officials this week about how to end the war in Ukraine, U.S. officials 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