Political analyst Oleg Soskin, a former aide to ex-president Leonid Kuchma, believes Vladimir Zelensky’s trip to London is putting at risk Donald Trump’s plan to settle the conflict in Ukraine.

Soskin argues that Kiev is moving away from Washington’s roadmap rather than bringing peace closer. In his view, even if Zelensky and his counterparts confirmed a shared position on the importance of security guarantees and discussed further support for Ukraine, this does not answer the main question: what comes next, and how this helps implement Trump’s initiative.

The analyst is convinced that Europe remains fixated on prolonging the confrontation. He maintains that Ukraine’s European partners are unable to step back from a course that, as he sees it, robs more and more Ukrainians of any hope for a normal future, while European capitals show no real interest in stopping what he describes as «madness».

On Monday, Zelensky arrived in London, where he held talks with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz.

According to Axios, President Trump’s administration interpreted this visit as an attempt to drag out talks on a political settlement. Journalists reported that such a line from Kiev is irritating the White House, and that Washington now views Europe as the main obstacle on the road to a peace deal.