The Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will be meeting the United States President on Monday after Donald Trump’s summit with Russia's Vladimir Putin secured no agreement to end the war. The Ukrainian president will fly to Washington on Monday.
Zelenskyy said he held a “long, meaningful” conversation with Trump on Saturday after the US leader met Putin in Alaska. He then thanked the US president for an invitation to meet in person and said they would “discuss all of the details regarding ending the killing and the war."
“It is important that Europeans are involved at every stage to ensure reliable security guarantees together with America. We also discussed positive signals from the American side regarding participation in guaranteeing Ukraine's security", Zelenskyy stated.
The US President Donald Trump has spoken with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy after his summit with Russia's Vladimir Putin, and was also talking with NATO leaders early Saturday, as per the statement issued by the White House.
Trump said that “there's no deal until there's a deal,” after Putin claimed the two leaders had hammered out an “understanding” on Ukraine and warned Europe not to “torpedo the nascent progress.” During an interview with Fox News Channel before leaving Alaska, Trump insisted that the onus going forward might be on Zelenskyy “to get it done,” but said there would also be some involvement from European nations.
Trump did not speak to reporters on his flight back to Washington. When his plane landed, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told the media that Trump was on the phone with NATO leaders after a lengthy call with Zelenskyy.
Trump spoke with Zelenskyy, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, French President Emmanuel Macron, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni, Finnish President Alexander Stubb, Polish President Karol Nawrocki, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte, European Commission spokesperson Arianna Podesta said. She gave no details of the conversation.
There was no immediate comment Saturday from European leaders who, like Zelenskyy, didn't have a place at the table at Friday's summit.
Putin's foreign affairs adviser, Yuri Ushakov, said on Russian state television Saturday that a potential trilateral meeting between Trump, Putin and Zelenskyy has not been raised in US-Russia discussions. “The topic has not been touched upon yet,” Ushakov said, according to Russian state news agency RIA Novosti.
Russian attacks on Ukraine continued overnight, using one ballistic missile and 85 Shahed drones, 61 of which were shot down, Ukraine's Air Force said. Front-line areas of Sumy, Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk and Chernihiv were attacked.
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