Hello, and welcome to NewsHour from the BBC World Service, coming live from London.
This is Owen Bennett-Jones.
Well, after Alaska, Washington, and this time not two leaders across the table,
but a multitude, the following Europeans have said they want to be there with Zelensky.
Mertz, Macron, Starmer, Maloney, von der Leyen, Finland's president, the NATO Secretary General.
Many of them have been making public statements in the last few hours.
So let's begin with the man who really ultimately has to take all the decisions for Ukraine,
President Zelensky.
Today, he said the war could only end if he sat down with Presidents Putin and Trump.
Since the territorial issue is so important,
it should be discussed only by the leaders of Ukraine and Russia at the trilateral,
Ukraine, United States, Russia.
So far, Russia gives no sign that trilateral will happen.
And if Russia refuses, then new sanctions must follow.
New sanctions must follow.
Well, the Ukrainian leader was speaking shortly after his meeting.
With the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen,
she said more sanctions are on the table.
As long as the bloodshed in Ukraine continues,
Europe will maintain diplomatic and in particular economic pressure on Russia.