Trump working to organize the summit between Putin, Zelenskyy after Monday

Washington – President Trump is working to coordinate a meeting Between Russian president Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who would be the first face -to -to -face interaction between the two leaders since Russia invaded Ukraine More than three years ago.

When asked about organizing the meeting on Tuesday, Trump said in News & Friends that he would let Putin and Zelenskyy meet first before getting involved, saying “they have not been exactly better friends.”

“I hope President Putin is good, and if not, that will be a difficult situation,” Trump said. He pointed out that he has the hope that Zelenskyy “does what he has to do,” saying that he has to “show some flexibility too.”

Mr. Trump’s efforts occur a day after an extraordinary series of meetings at the White House between the president of the United States, Zelenskyy and European leaders. In an unity exhibition, Zelenskyy and European leaders emphasized the importance of security guarantees in a peace agreement, that Mr. Trump said he could come with US coordination.

Attention has now become a possible summit between Putin and Zelenskyy. After Monday’s meetings, Trump said he called Putin to establish the meeting, and “picked it up very happy,” despite the late time in Russia. Trump called him a “very good call.”

“I told him that we are going to organize a meeting with President Zelenskyy, and you and he will meet, and then, after that meeting, if everything works well, I will meet and conclude it,” Trump said. He added that “two for tango” are needed, and that “they have to have a relationship something like otherwise, we are only wasting a lot of time.”

Zelenskyy said News themezone shortly after leaving the White House that an appointment with Putin had not gathered, although German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said he could be in the next two weeks. In a publication on Tuesday X, Zelenskyy described the conversations in Washington “a really significant step to end war and guarantee the security of Ukraine and our people.”

“We are already working on the specific content of security guarantees,” Zelenskyy said. “Today, we continue the coordination at the level of leaders. There will be discussions and we are preparing the relevant formats.”

A Russian spokesman would only say that high -level conversations would be held, but they would not confirm that Putin would be involved.

Mr. Trump, who met with Putin In Alaska last week, he expressed urgency around at the time of the next meeting, which suggests that waiting for too long would result in thousands of deaths. In what seemed to be a hot microphone moment on Monday, Trump told French president Emmanuel Macron that Putin “wants to make a deal for me.”

The president described News who was surprised that Zelenskyy and Putin “get a little better than he thought,” and added that “they are the ones who have to take the shots.”

“We are going to discover about President Putin in the next two weeks, which I can tell him, and we will see where everything is going,” Trump said. “You may not want to make a deal.”

In the informative session of the White House press, press secretary Karoline Leavitt said that Putin and Zelenskyy have “expressed their willingness to sit together” and that “they are underway for that meeting.”

Meanwhile, security guarantees for Ukraine emerged as a key issue during Monday’s meetings, and Zelenskyy called them a “starting point to finish the war.”

The Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, said on Monday that the United States will work with European allies and other allies to provide security guarantees for Ukraine after the war, although he did not provide details. And Macron said that discussions about what the United States is willing to provide could begin as soon as Tuesday.

On security guarantees, Trump said European leaders are “willing to put people on the field” and that “we are willing to help them with things, especially if you could talk by air because there is no one has the kind of things we have.” But the president added that “I don’t think it’s a problem.”

“There will be some form of security,” Trump said. “It can’t be NATO, because that was a, that’s not something that ever happens.”

Leavitt described Trump’s post on Tuesday afternoon, saying that “the president has definitely declared that US boots will not be in the field in Ukraine, but we can certainly help in coordination and perhaps provide other security means to our European allies.”

“The president understands that security guarantees are crucial to ensure lasting peace and has ordered his national security team to coordinate with our friends in Europe,” he added.

Nancy Cordes contributed to this report.

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