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(NewsNation) — No bid woody emerged from the Trump-Putin Alaska Summit Friday, but Ukraine volition get its spot astatine the negotiating array successful Washington, D.C. connected Monday.
"I volition conscionable with President Trump successful Washington, D.C., to sermon each of the details regarding ending the sidesplitting and the war. I americium grateful for the invitation," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy wrote connected X Saturday.
He said helium spoke one-on-one with Trump connected the telephone for an hour, calling the speech "substantive."
"Ukraine reaffirms its readiness to enactment with maximum effort to execute peace," Zelenskyy said. "President Trump informed astir his gathering with the Russian person and the main points of their discussion. It is important that America’s spot has an interaction connected the improvement of the situation."
The Ukrainian president was excluded from the in-person gathering betwixt Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin successful Anchorage connected Friday wherever the 2 satellite leaders met to sermon an extremity to the war successful Ukraine.
“There is nary woody until determination is simply a deal,” Trump told reporters astatine a associated quality league pursuing the talks. “We truly made immoderate large progress. We had an highly productive meeting.”
After greeting 1 different connected the tarmac astatine Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, a U.S. subject installation located astir equidistant from Moscow and D.C., Trump and Putin met for respective hours successful what was billed arsenic a summit to code Russia’s ongoing warfare successful Ukraine.
This was the archetypal clip Putin stepped connected U.S. ungraded successful astir 10 years.
Putin suggested successful English that their adjacent gathering instrumentality spot “in Moscow,” prompting Trump to respond that helium would “get a small vigor connected that one.” Trump said helium planned to telephone NATO officials, European leaders and Zelenskyy to little them connected the meeting’s outcomes.
European leaders respond to Alaska Summit
The European Council released a associated statement Saturday connected behalf of French President Emmanuel Macron, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, United Kingdom's Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Finnish President Alexander Stubb, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, European Council President António Costa, and European Commission Ursula President von der Leyen.
"Leaders welcomed President Trump’s efforts to halt the sidesplitting successful Ukraine, extremity Russia’s warfare of aggression, and execute conscionable and lasting peace," the connection said. "As President Trump said ‘there’s nary woody until there’s a deal’. As envisioned by President Trump, the adjacent measurement indispensable present beryllium further talks including President Zelenskyy, whom helium volition conscionable soon."
The radical said its acceptable to conscionable successful a trilateral acme with Ukraine, Russia and the U.S.
"We are wide that Ukraine indispensable person ironclad information guarantees to efficaciously support its sovereignty and territorial integrity," the connection said. "We invited President Trump’s connection that the US is prepared to springiness information guarantees."
