{"id":354469,"date":"2026-09-23T10:06:21","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T10:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/354469\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T10:06:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T10:06:21","slug":"zelenskyy-and-von-der-leyen-had-tense-meeting-in-new-york-bloomberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/354469\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelenskyy and von der Leyen had tense meeting in New York \u2013 Bloomberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Bloomberg, citing a source familiar with the matter, has reported that a meeting between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in New York was tense.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Source: European Pravda, citing <a data-ylk=\"slk:Bloomberg;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2026-09-22\/eu-tells-ukraine-to-bolster-rule-of-law-before-it-gets-more-aid\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Bloomberg<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Details: The source told Bloomberg that Zelenskyy and von der Leyen discussed further financial and defence support for Ukraine during the meeting in New York. The meeting was tense.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Ukrainian side expressed concern about the potential escalation of Russian attacks in winter and the shortage of air defence missiles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The source also said Ukraine reacted angrily during the talks to the EU&#8217;s decision to lift sanctions on two Russian oligarchs as part of an agreement to extend the broader sanctions regime.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Following the meeting, von der Leyen wrote on <a data-ylk=\"slk:X (Twitter);elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/vonderleyen\/status\/2102443645467001301\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">X (Twitter)<\/a> that Europe is working harder than ever to strengthen Ukraine&#8217;s defence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Quote: &#8220;Our new anti-ballistic programme can help rapidly scale up production. More defence support is coming. And as reforms in the Rada [Ukrainian Parliament] progress, more budget support too. We have \u20ac37 billion still available in this calendar year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Background: On 22 September, Vsevolod Chentsov, Ukraine&#8217;s Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration, presented the status of Ukraine&#8217;s fulfilment of obligations within the EU accession negotiation process to the Working Party on Enlargement and Countries Negotiating Accession to the EU.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Support Ukrainska Pravda on <a data-ylk=\"slk:Patreon;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/pravdaua\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Patreon<\/a> to help us keep reporting!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bloomberg, citing a source familiar with the matter, has reported that a meeting between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":354470,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27337,115382,22234,132167,9,11,10,132169,9046,132168,132122,123681],"class_list":["post-354469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-bloomberg","tag-citing-a-source","tag-european-commission","tag-european-pravda","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-russian-oligarchs","tag-ukraine","tag-ukrainian-president","tag-ursula-von-der-leyen","tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}