{"id":234734,"date":"2025-08-20T07:19:22","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T07:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abianewscentral.com.ng\/trump-interrupts-white-house-talks-with-european-leaders-to-call-putin-on-ukraine-peace-efforts\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T07:19:22","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T07:19:22","slug":"trump-interrupts-white-house-talks-with-european-leaders-to-call-putin-on-ukraine-peace-efforts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/trump-interrupts-white-house-talks-with-european-leaders-to-call-putin-on-ukraine-peace-efforts\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Interrupts White House Talks With European Leaders to Call Putin on Ukraine Peace Efforts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trump Interrupts White House Talks With European Leaders to Call Putin on Ukraine Peace Efforts<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>U.S. President Donald Trump briefly stepped out of a high-level White House meeting with European leaders and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to call Russian President Vladimir Putin over the Ukraine peace process, a diplomatic source told AFP.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The meeting included UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, France\u2019s Emmanuel Macron, Germany\u2019s Olaf Scholz, Italy\u2019s Giorgia Meloni, Finland\u2019s Petteri Orpo, EU Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen, and NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg.<\/p>\n<p>While details of the call remain unclear, analysts say the move underscores Moscow\u2019s central role in shaping the conflict and signals Trump\u2019s readiness to bypass traditional diplomatic channels.<\/p>\n<p>The talks form part of renewed international efforts to secure a truce ahead of Ukraine\u2019s elections, though disagreements persist over Kyiv\u2019s security guarantees and Russian-occupied territories.<\/p>\n<p>Neither Washington nor Moscow has commented officially on the call.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>EuropeanUnion,NATODiplomacy,PeaceTalks,Putin,Trump,UkraineWar,WhiteHouse<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jungle-journalist.com\/trump-interrupts-white-house-talks-with-european-leaders-to-call-putin-on-ukraine-peace-efforts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump Interrupts White House Talks With European Leaders to Call Putin on Ukraine Peace Efforts U.S. President Donald Trump briefly stepped out of a high-level White House meeting with European leaders and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to call Russian President Vladimir Putin over the Ukraine peace process, a diplomatic source told AFP. The meeting included [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[1692,1693,1694,1695,604,1696,1697],"class_list":["post-234734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-europeanunion","tag-natodiplomacy","tag-peacetalks","tag-putin","tag-trump","tag-ukrainewar","tag-whitehouse"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}