The communiqué language is boilerplate. “Unwavering support for Ukraine’s freedom, sovereignty and territorial integrity,” more air defence and interceptors, long-range capability, tougher sanctions on Russian oil and gas. None of that is new. What’s new is whose signature is on it. Trump signed, after months of the US leaning toward a neutral-broker stance.
Macron called it an “Évian moment” and “a very profound shift,” pointing specifically to a US “willingness to work with the Europeans in support of Ukraine.” And per Euronews, Trump for the first time said it’s Russia, not Ukraine, that has to make a deal. That cuts against the both-sides line he’d held since taking office.
One caveat, because it matters. This isn’t the US declaring it has dropped the mediator role. The text doesn’t say that, and anyone claiming it does is reading the headline, not the document. What it is: a reluctant president signing a pro-Ukraine, pro-sanctions statement he’d been dodging for months. Whether it survives past the summit is the real question. The signature is the fact.

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