(NewsNation) — President Donald Trump is scheduled to talk with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy connected Wednesday up of his meeting with Russia’s Vladimir Putin successful Alaska.
Joining the virtual gathering volition beryllium different European leaders, who, alongside Zelenskyy, person been sidelined from the acme regarding an extremity to the warfare successful Ukraine, according to the Associated Press.
Zelenskyy has said helium believes Putin is not funny successful negotiating during the gathering successful Alaska, which volition beryllium Putin’s archetypal travel to the United States since 2015.
Trump has said helium wants to spot whether Putin is superior astir ending the war, present successful its 4th year, and has described the acme arsenic “a feel-out meeting” successful which helium tin measure the Russian leader’s intentions. Trump has suggested land swaps could play a relation successful bringing the warfare to an end.
However, Zelenskyy has rejected the thought that his state would springiness up onshore to extremity the war. Zelenskyy said Ukraine “will not springiness Russia immoderate awards for what it has done” and that “Ukrainians volition not springiness their onshore to the occupier.”
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and different European leaders are demanding Putin archetypal hold to a ceasefire earlier immoderate bid talks oregon onshore swaps betwixt Moscow and Kyiv tin instrumentality place, Politico reported. In addition, Merz and different leaders are requesting, should immoderate onshore swaps happen, they indispensable beryllium agreed to by Kyiv and that Russia should springiness Ukraine information guarantees to support it from aboriginal attacks.