Brussels: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is rallying the support of his European partners after a bruising meeting last week with President Donald Trump, in which he was told to make concessions to end the war or risk facing destruction at the hands of Russia.

In a tense meeting at the White House, Trump tossed aside maps of the front line and urged Kyiv to concede its entire Donbas region to Russia to clinch a deal, according to people familiar with the exchange who spoke on the condition of anonymity to share sensitive diplomacy.

“He said [Russian President Vladimir] Putin will destroy you if you don’t agree now,” one of the people said. “Zelensky had his maps and everything, and he was explaining it to him but [Trump] wanted nothing to do with it.”

Trump listened but was not

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