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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky revealed he will meet President Trump in the Oval Office on Monday “to discuss all of the details regarding ending the killing and the war.”
Zelensky spoke on the phone for over an hour and a half with Trump, who was on board Air Force One en route back to the White House after meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska for nearly three hours on Friday.
The 47-year-old Ukrainian leader said the phone call with Trump began as a bilateral conversation for over an hour before European leaders joined them.
Zelensky applauded the efforts Trump made towards a cease-fire in the three-year invasion launched by Putin in February 2022.
“Ukraine reaffirms its readiness to work with maximum effort to achieve peace,” Zelensky wrote on X Saturday. “President Trump informed about his meeting with the Russian leader and the main points of their discussion. It is important that America’s strength has an impact on the development of the situation.”
Trump confirmed that an in-person trilateral meeting with Zelensky and Putin would be scheduled “if all works out” with Monday’s Oval Office meeting.
“If all works out, we will then schedule a meeting with President Putin. Potentially, millions of people’s lives will be saved,” Trump wrote on Truth Social on Saturday.
“We support President Trump’s proposal for a trilateral meeting between Ukraine, the USA, and Russia. Ukraine emphasizes that key issues can be discussed at the level of leaders, and a trilateral format is suitable for this,” Zelensky said.
The leaders who joined the phone call included NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, French President Emmanuel Macron, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz.
“It was determined by all that the best way to end the horrific war between Russia and Ukraine is to go directly to a Peace Agreement, which would end the war, and not a mere Ceasefire Agreement, which often times do not hold up,” Trump said.
The European leaders expressed unwavering support for Ukraine in a joint statement after the phone call.
“Leaders welcomed President Trump’s efforts to stop the killing in Ukraine, end Russia’s war of aggression and achieve just and lasting piece,” the group said.
“Ukraine can count on our unwavering solidarity as we work towards a peace that safeguards Ukraine’s and Europe’s vital security interests.”
Zelensky called on European leaders to join Trump in pressuring Russia to end the war that has killed nearly 14,000 people in Ukraine.
“It is important that Europeans are involved at every stage to ensure reliable security guarantees together with America,” he said. “We also discussed positive signals from the American side regarding participation in guaranteeing Ukraine’s security. We continue to coordinate our positions with all partners. I thank everyone who is helping.”
Trump and Putin met at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska, for their first meeting since Trump’s first term in office.
When the nearly three-hour meeting ended, the two leaders emerged from behind closed doors and spoke at a joint press conference.
Trump proclaimed “great progress” had been made towards ending the deadly conflict, but cautioned, “there’s no deal until there’s a deal.”
“There were many, many points that we agreed on, most of them,” Trump said at a media availability where neither he nor Putin took any questions.
Trump remained vague with details as neither leader shared any specifics of what was discussed during the high-stakes summit.
Putin, like Trump, described the meeting as productive and claimed repeatedly that the men had made an “understanding” without providing any details.
The strongman added that he hoped “today’s understanding will be the starting point not only for the solution of the Ukrainian issue, but also will help us bring back business-like and pragmatic relations between Russia and the US.”
“I would like to hope that the understanding that we’ve reached together will help us bring closer that goal and will pave the path towards peace in Ukraine,” Putin added. “We expect that Kyiv and European capitals will perceive that constructively and that they won’t throw a wrench in the works.
