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(NewsNation) — President Donald Trump is moving to broker a face-to-face gathering betwixt Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Russia's Vladimir Putin successful the coming weeks.
At the White House connected Monday, Trump and Zelenskyy met with top European leaders, who aligned their positions peculiarly erstwhile it came to the contented of security guarantees for Ukraine successful its warfare with Russia.
While Russia has refused to springiness up its demands, Trump said his gathering successful Alaska with Putin past week led him to judge the Russian person would "accept information guarantees for Ukraine."
Details of immoderate imaginable agreements reached during Monday's gathering person not yet been revealed, but satellite leaders person appeared optimistic astir the developments.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer called a trilateral gathering to extremity the warfare “the sensible adjacent step,” insisting that bid for Ukraine has to impact Ukraine itself.
"I can’t ideate that the adjacent gathering would instrumentality spot without a ceasefire,” German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said during a roundtable discussion. “So let’s enactment connected that, and let’s effort to enactment unit connected Russia due to the fact that the credibility of these efforts, these efforts we are undertaking contiguous are depending connected astatine slightest a ceasefire from the opening of the superior negotiations from adjacent measurement on.”
Immediately aft Monday's summit, Trump called Russian President Vladimir Putin to statesman arranging a gathering betwixt Putin and Zelenskyy, followed by a trilateral gathering with each 3 leaders. Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and peculiar envoy Steve Witkoff were coordinating with Russia and Ukraine.
The White House said the extremity is for Zelenskyy and Putin to conscionable wrong the adjacent 1 to 2 weeks.
NewsNation's Anna Kutz and spouse The Hill contributed to this report.
