Is Trump negotiating a new European security order with Russia?

US President Donald Trump has said he held private talks in the Oval Office with Kremlin envoy Kirill Dmitriev. Trump hinted that a Russia-Ukraine peace deal involving the European Union could be near.

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Donald Trump has said a major agreement involving Ukraine and all of Europe may be close.

Trump met privately with an envoy for Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday — but not the Ukrainian delegation — raising the question: Who gets to shape the deal?

DW asked Simon Smith, the former British ambassador to Ukraine and Domitilla Sagramoso of King’s College London whether European governments could end up enforcing a ceasefire they had little role in negotiating.

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