German, French leaders wary of US push for Ukraine peace

5/12/2025 6:38

The French President and German Chancellor have voiced scepticism over the direction that U.S. efforts to negotiate a peace between Ukraine and Russia are taking, German magazine Spiegel cited a transcript of a confidential call as showing.



In a report on Thursday, Spiegel said that in the call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and other European leaders, France's Emmanuel Macron warned that the United States could insist that Ukraine makes territorial concessions to Russia without guarantees to prevent future Russian aggression.



"There is a chance that the U.S. will betray Ukraine on territory without clarity on security guarantees," he said, according to the magazine.