Since the U.S. presidential election, he had been trying to persuade Trump’s team to consider not only Ukraine’s interests but also those of Europe as a whole. To this end, he had earlier arranged a trilateral meeting in Paris.

Trump suggested Ukraine did not try hard enough to get control of Russian-occupied Crimea, pressuring Zelenskyy on a peace deal to “GET IT DONE.”

High-level talks in London aimed at bringing a pause to fighting in Ukraine disintegrated after Secretary of State Marco Rubio and special envoy Steve Witkoff pulled out.