Donald Trump met with the president of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenski and European leaders on Monday. The Washington summit, which the participants felt was in a constructive atmosphere, did not bring definitive solutions. The road to the end of Russia's war with Ukraine inactive seems long.
Zelenski was the first to meet with the American president, and it was only later that European politicians joined him – European Commission president Ursula van der Leyen, French president Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. The event was besides attended by Finnish president Alexander Stubb and NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte.
“We will be involved”
The White home gathering happened After Friday's Trump-Putin summit in AlaskaDuring which the Russian leader outlined the conditions under which his country is prepared to end the war. Russian demands were maximalistic, meaning de facto surrender of Ukraine, while Trump opposed them not particularly. Hence concerns arose that during Monday meetings the American president would press Zelenski to accept the conditions of the Russians. Nothing like this happened, and there were no bursts of emotion that ended the erstwhile visit of the Ukrainian leader to the White House.
All participants agreed with the plan to organise direct talks between Zelenski and Putin, and the main subject of the discussion were the safety guarantees that the European states and the US would give Ukraine after Moscow and Kiev signed an agreement to end the fighting.
European leaders pressed Trump to give a safety warrant akin to Article 5 of NATO. "We will supply them with very good protection and security," Trump declared. erstwhile reporters in the Oval Office asked straight whether the US would send troops to Ukraine as part of peacekeeping activities, Trump did not give a clear answer. However, he stressed that the states would "help". "We will be engaged," he declared. Later, on social media, he stated that the leaders discussed "security guarantees for Ukraine to be given by various European countries in cooperation with the United States".
"Be honest and constructive"
The scope of the warrant is to be further negotiated, but it is already known present that Trump has agreed to sale arms to Ukrainians. Zelenski expressed peculiar interest in purchasing more Patriot air defence systems. In an interview with journalists, he admitted that the anticipation of acquiring American weapons was part of a safety guarantee. Under this mechanism, Ukraine will buy US weapons worth $90 billion through Europe, and the US will buy drones from Ukraine. He added that the formal agreement inactive needs to be agreed, pointing out that specified a deal would be an crucial step towards ensuring that Ukrainian forces proceed to fight Russia and have a solid defence if a peace agreement was reached.
During the briefing after meetings at the White House, the president of Ukraine besides stressed that the substance of territories would stay a substance to discuss between him and Putin. erstwhile will specified a gathering take place? In a post on social media, Trump reported that he had called Putin to start negotiations on the gathering of Zelenski with the Russian leader. He added that he would then search a gathering with both presidents in the trialogue. However, it is unclear whether all parties agreed to this. Yuri Uszakov, an advisor to the Kremlin for abroad Policy, stated that Putin and Trump had a "sincerest and very constructive" telephone conversation about gathering Zelenski and European leaders in the White House. In the language of diplomacy, ‘honest’ usually means no specifics. On the another hand, according to Reuters' sources, the Putin-Zelenski gathering can be held in August, most likely in Hungary.
