“I did not progress on Ukraine with Putin “, He said Donald Trump before leaving for Iowa.
The US President told Vladimir Putin that he is not “happy” of the situation in Ukraine And he denied having stopped providing weapons to Ukraine. “We have given them and we continue to do it but we must be sure we have enough for us,” he highlighted the tycoon.
The point at 8 pm on 3 July 2025 by Aarhus in Denmark of the advance Michele Esposito
Ferreo support for Ukraine in Scandinavian land, very poor progress for an acceptable peace scheme for Kiev on the direct line between the USA and Russia. The phone call between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, who arrived after the announced stop to the sending of weapons to Kiev by the American president, was far from clarifying a picture that, for Volodymyr Zelensky, risks becoming suddenly darker.
And it is no coincidence that the Ukrainian president arrived in Aarhus, Denmark, on the occasion of the beginning of the presidency semester led by Copenhagen. A sortie, that of Zelensky, who hit the target – to obtain new insurance on the military support of Europe – but which, with a progressive American disengagement, risks being mona.
The phone call between Trump and Putin was instead interlocutory. The two agreed that the negotiations will go on. The Tsar, however, warned: “We will not give up our goals, the basic causes of the conflict must be eliminated”. Little else has leaked on the content of the call, which lasted almost an hour, during which the Iran and Middle East dossiers were addressed “in depth”.
The Ukrainian president arrived in Aarhus shortly after lunch between the commission and the Danish government and immediately took stock of the premier puts Frederiksen, Ursula von der Leyen and the president of the European Council Antonio Costa. Everyone has ensured Ukraino that the support of Europe will have no psychological repercussion from the possible American turning point on the delivery of weapons. Von der Leyen invited the Member States to activate Safe, the tool designed for common projects in the European defense with a certain neatness.
Projects in which Kiev will enter with full law. “Safe also serves to defend Ukraine,” he underlined, at the joint press point that took place in the Garden of the Marselisborg Castle. Copenhagen, for its part, has certified that it will act as a forerunner to an initiative that in the coming months could take altitude: allow Ukrainian companies to produce weapons in individual EU countries. Yet it was Zelensky himself who admitted that it will not be enough. “We count on the continuous support of the USA, because it has certain means that Europe does not have, like Patriot missiles”, explained the Ukrainian president to a handful of hours from yet another, crucial, calling with Trump. A concept that is also very clear in Brussels. If the US stopped sending weapons – which, according to the Wall Street Journal, has actually happened in Poland in the past few hours – this would represent “a serious step back for the EU and NATO”, said Frederiksen.
The point, for the EU, is that the continuous changes of Trump’s strategy make the USA an ally unreliable also on the Ukrainian front. Stop to arms “is a signal to increase our efforts,” Von der Leyen warned. On the other hand, the EU is convinced that she has no choice. Convinced that “Putin does not want peace and does not want to stop”. And in Aarhus no one has made too many illusions on the new phone call between Trump and Putin. “I don’t know if they can have many ideas in common. In Russia he decides only Putin, for this he serves a high -level summit,” said Zelensky deriving any other interviews in the wake of those of Istanbul. EU efforts are evident on the Ukraine adhesion dossier. Hungarian veto risks blocking the process until Viktor Orban is in power but, on enlargement to Ukraine, the Danish presidency focuses a lot. In the next six months the pressure on Viktor Orban will increase. The idea is to unofficially open tutit the clusters for Kiev within the year and wait for the elections to be held in winter in Budapest. “We must not waste time, I invite the Commission and Ukraine to continue the work and then, when we are able to get approval, we will go on,” Costa explained. “Accepted invitation,” replied Von der Leyen. Both, together with the royalty of Denmark and a room crowded with European commissioners, officials and diplomats have given a standing ovation in the start ceremony of the Danish presidency, in the Aarhus City Hall. The second Danish city is nicknamed the ‘city of smile’ but the tones of Frederiksen much more serious: “We are in an era of predators but Europe will not be prey”.