The top European leaders have been invited to attend a summit in Kiev on May 9, called for by Ukrainian expired president Volodymyr Zelenskyy, as a counterweight to Russia’s 80th Anniversary of Victory over Fascism parade and celebration in Moscow. Yet they have all declined to go.
On April 29, Politico reported that “Ukraine has invited European leaders on May 9 for a summit to counter the optics from Putin’s victory parade in Moscow. But Polish PM Donald Tusk will instead head to Nancy [France] that day to sign a security treaty with President Emmanuel Macron, while British PM Keir Starmer plans to attend a defense summit in Oslo.” And, Politico continues, “Incoming German Chancellor Friedrich Merz doesn’t want to go without the full posse, my Berlin Playbook colleague tells me.”
