Zelenskyy, Europeans to meet with Trump at the White House today to talk about the Ukraine War

Washington – President Trump is Established to meet With Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and European leaders in the White House on Monday while the United States follows a durable peace agreement to end Russia War in Ukraine.

Trump announced the meeting at dawn on Saturday, after his Summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin In Alaska on Friday. In a publication about Truth Social, the president said that the meeting with Putin “was very good”, and added that the same was true for a phone call with Zelenskyy and several European leaders after the fact.

“President Zelenskyy will come to DC, the Oval office, Monday afternoon,” Trump said. “If everything works, we will schedule a meeting with President Putin.”

European and NATO leaders It is expected to accompany Zelenskyy to Washington, including the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, who said he joined “the request of President Zelenskyy.”

Although the almost three hours meeting between US and Russian presidents on Friday failed to produce the fire that Trump had sought, the administration has turned to seek a broader peace agreement between Ukraine and Russia. The decision to abandon the fire disagreed with the objectives of the Americans and Europeans who go to the summit, and some analysts say that the change could give Putin more leverage at the negotiating table.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said In “Fac The Nation with Margaret Brennan” on Sunday that “both parties will have to make concessions” to get there.

“We want to end a peace agreement that ends this war so that Ukraine can continue with the rest of their lives and rebuild their country and be sure that this will never happen again,” said Rubio, noting that doing so would require that both sides “Dan”.

The Secretary of State, who attended the meeting of Friday’s summit with Putin, indicated that sufficient progress was made to sit with Zelenskyy to “reduce the gap between both sides.”

Rubio said that the details of the security guarantees for Ukraine, the question of the territories and the issue of the reconstruction of the country must still be discussed and “require more specificity.”

Meanwhile, the special envoy of the United States, Steve Witkoff, said in the “State of the Union” of CNN on Sunday that Putin agreed To allow the United States and Europe to offer security guarantees of “game change”, including a possible agreement in which allies provide “protection similar to article 5” to Ukraine. Article 5 of the NATO Charter says that an attack against a member nation is considered an attack against all. Putin has vehemently opposed Ukraine that binds to NATO, but a similar security guarantee outside the alliance frame could reassure kyiv that Russia would be dissuaded to attack in the future.

Witkoff said the administration intends to discuss a possible exchange of land at Monday’s meeting.

“We are not waiting for a week for a meeting with Zelenskyy and European leaders,” Witkoff said. “We intend to try to achieve a peace agreement that ends the fight permanently, very, very fast. Faster than a high fire.”

In a real social position on Sunday night, Trump said: “President Zelenskyy of Ukraine can end the war with Russia almost immediately, if he wants, or can continue fighting. He remembers how he began. Trump referred to the invasion and annexation of Crimea de Russia in early 2014.

In a publication about X, Zelenskyy said he had arrived in Washington for the conversations and insisted: “Russia must end this war, which began. And I hope that our joint force with the United States, with our European friends, forces Russia to a true peace.”

Before Monday’s meeting, Russian attacks against Ukraine continued, with a wave of air attacks that arrived in cities throughout the country, including kyiv, Kharkiv, Donetsk, Dnipropetrovsk, Odessa and Sumy, BBC News News BBC News reported. The Ukrainian authorities said that an attack with unmanned aircraft in a residential area in the city of Jharkiv during the night killed a small child, a 16 -year -old boy and five other people.

“Despite all the efforts of diplomacy and peace, Russia continues to kill civilians,” said Foreign Minister of Ukraine, Andrii Sybiha, in a position on social networks. “Russia is a murderous war machine that Ukraine is stopping. And it must stop through unity and transatlantic pressure. Moscow must stop the murder to advance diplomacy.”

Russian state media reported that Ukraine had carried out a drone attack in Donetsk, during the night he killed a 62 -year -old woman.

Monday’s meeting between Trump and Zelenskyy arrives months after a contentious February Oval office meeting Between the two leaders and vice president JD Vance exposed a severe crack, with tensions exploding in the camera As Vance accused Zelenskyy of ingratitude. In recent months, Mr. Trump’s position seemed to change as he expressed his frustration with Putin about Russia’s current Drones and missile attacksincluding what Ukraine described as the attacks of this largest type since the invasion began in February 2022.

Haley Ott and Brian Dakss contributed to this report.

• Ukraine
• Donald Trump
• Russia
• Vladimir Putin
• Volodymyr Zelenskyy
• NATO