Zelenskyy to meet Trump in Washington after the Alaska summit

Kyiv, Ukraine (AP) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Saturday that he planned to meet US President Donald Trump in Washington next week after Trump’s summit With Russia, Vladimir Putin ended without an agreement to end the war in Ukraine.

Zelenskyy said he had a “long and substantial” conversation with Trump on Saturday after the American chief met Putin in Alaska. He thanked Trump for an invitation to meet in person in Washington on Monday and said that they “would discuss all the details concerning the end of the murder and the war”.

Asset deployed the red carpet Friday for Putin, who was in the United States for the first time in a decade. But he gave few concrete details thereafter of what was discussed, and we were little known as the two leaders separated from what was going to happen.

“Positive” American signals on safety guarantees

Zelenskyy reiterated the importance of involving Europe – which, like the Ukrainian chief, was not at the table at the top of Friday.

“It is important that Europeans are involved at each stage to ensure reliable security guarantees with America,” he said. “We have also discussed the positive signals of the American team concerning participation in the Ukraine security guarantee.”

He did not develop, but Zelenskyy previously declared that European partners aroused a proposal to establish a Presence of foreign troops In Ukraine as a deterrent against the future Russian aggression because it lacked American fixed.

Zelenskyy said he spoke to Trump on-one, then during a call with other European leaders. In total, the conversations lasted more than an hour and a half.

“No agreement as long as there is an agreement”

Trump declared in Alaska that “there is no agreement before there was an agreement”, after Putin said that the two leaders had hammered an “understanding” on Ukraine and warned Europe not to “torpedo the emerging progress”.

During an interview with Fox News Channel before returning to Washington, Trump insisted that the burden in the future could be on Zelenskyy to do so “, but said that there would also be an involvement of European nations.

Trump did not speak to journalists about his return flight to Washington. When her plane landed, the White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told journalists that Trump was on the phone with NATO leaders after a long call with Zelenskyy.

Trump then landed Air Force without talking to journalists. He did not answer questions shown on phone calls while he went up in his limousine.

Trump met with Zelenskyy, the German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, the French president Emmanuel Macron, the British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, the first first Giorgia Meloni, the Finnish president Alexander Stubb, the Polish president Karol Nawrocki, the president of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen and the Grenier of the Ontagic of the European Commission, Arianna Podesta. She did not give any details on the conversation.

Hope a meeting with three

Zelenskyy expressed support for Trump’s proposal for a trilateral meeting with the United States and Russia. He said that “key problems can be discussed in terms of managers, and a trilateral format is suitable for this.”

But Putin’s foreign adviser Yuri Ushakov said on Russian television on a potential trilateral meeting on Saturday between Trump, Putin and Zelenskyy had not been raised in American-Russia discussions. “The subject has not yet been addressed,” said Ushakov, according to Russian news agency Ria Novosti.

Russian officials and the media have set a largely positive tone, some describing Friday’s meeting as a symbolic end to Putin’s isolation in the West.

The former president of Russia, Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chief of the country’s Security Council, praised the Alaska summit as a breakthrough in the restoration of the high -level dialogue between Moscow and Washington, describing talks as “calm, without ultimatums and threats”.

Russian attacks against Ukraine continued overnight, using a ballistic missile and 85 Shahed drones, 61 of which were slaughtered, Ukraine Air Force said. The front line areas of Sumy, Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk and Chernihiv have been attacked.

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Morton reported in London. Geir Moulson in Berlin contributed to this report.