ZELENSKYY IN PARIS, MEETS MACRON TO SEEK SUPPORT OVER TRUMP’S PEACE PLAN

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday at the Elysée presidential palace in Paris, part of a flurry of diplomatic activity aimed at brokering the terms for a potential ceasefire in the nearly four-year-old war in Ukraine.

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrived at the Elysee Palace in Paris on Monday for talks with French President Emmanuel Macron on Ukraine peace proposals.

Zelenskyy’s visit to Paris followed a meeting between Ukrainian and U.S. officials in Florida on Sunday, which Secretary of State Marco Rubio described as productive. The two sides have worked to make revisions to a proposed U.S.-authored plan that was developed in negotiations between Washington and Moscow but criticized as being too weighted toward Russian demands.

Those criticisms were perhaps most vehement from Ukraine’s European allies who, while welcoming U.S. peace efforts, pushed back on key tenets of the plan.