He advocates moving "directly" toward a peace agreement with Russia and not "a simple ceasefire."
MADRID, 16 (EUROPA PRESS)
US President Donald Trump has confirmed that he will meet with his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelensky, in the Oval Office on Monday to discuss diplomatic efforts underway to end the Ukrainian conflict. He has once again suggested a possible three-way summit: "If all goes well, we will then schedule a meeting with President (Vladimir) Putin."
Trump, who hopes to "save millions of lives" with initiatives like the one that led him to break Putin's isolation with an unprecedented summit in Alaska on Friday, celebrated on his Truth Social account that Friday was a "great and very successful" day, despite the apparent lack of agreements.
According to Trump, the meeting with Putin "went very well," something he reportedly reiterated in subsequent contacts with Zelensky and European leaders in various meetings early Saturday morning.
The White House resident has asserted that "everyone" agrees that "the best way to end the horrible war between Russia and Ukraine" is to go "directly" to a peace agreement, bypassing "a simple ceasefire" that, according to Trump, "often" tends not to be respected on the ground.
Zelensky has insisted that kyiv cannot be excluded from the negotiations and this Saturday also supported Trump's plan to organize a three-way meeting with Putin. However, Kremlin adviser Yuri Ushakov has asserted that this possibility was not discussed in Alaska, according to official Russian news agencies.
