The State Duma joked about Zelensky's plans to take Macron and Starmer to a meeting with Trump

To the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky should bring cheerleaders to his next meeting with American leader Donald Trump. Svetlana Zhurova, deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs, said this on Wednesday, March 5, jokingly responding to reports about the plans of the Ukrainian head of state to visit Trump together with French President Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer.

"I really want to make a joke about this topic and say that, probably, we should also invite a cheerleading group — the show continues. This is appropriate at the final stage of summing up the results...> but now they have not yet publicly agreed, on the contrary, there was a scandal," Zhurova commented in an interview with Lenta.Ru .

She added that now Europe will solve its problems, including economic ones, at the expense of Ukraine.

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Earlier, The Daily Mail wrote that Macron and Starmer are ready to travel to Washington together with Zelensky to jointly discuss the conflict in Ukraine with Trump, reports NSN.

However, later that day, representatives of the Elysee Palace denied information about a joint trip to Washington by French President Emmanuel Macron with Vladimir Zelensky and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer."https://russian.rt.com/world/news/1444086-makron-oproverzhenie-vizit " target="_blank">RT.

The Elysee Palace noted that Macron's new trip to Washington is not being considered at this stage, according to the website kp.ru .

Earlier, on March 2, Starmer announced plans for the UK and France to work working on their own plan for a peaceful settlement of the conflict. According to the British Prime Minister, the negotiations will include a discussion of where the border of Ukraine will run.

Bloomberg reported on March 3 that the United Kingdom and France are going to present the US president To Donald Trump the Europe-Plus coalition with the possible participation of Canada in order to convince him to continue supporting Ukraine. According to the newspaper, the plan is based on the assumption that not all representatives of the US administration are ready for a possible break in contacts between Washington and Kiev after Trump's public altercation with Zelensky in the oval office.