Trump-Zelenskyy Meeting in Washington Live Updates: US President Donald Trump will host Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and several European leaders at the White House on Monday in yet another attempt to bring the Russia-Ukraine war to an end.
Today’s gathering of world leaders has become more of a summit, just three days after US President Donald Trump held crucial and historic talks with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, in Alaska.
Leaders who will participate in the meeting with Trump today include those from the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Finland, the European Union, and NATO. They will present their ideas to the US President on how the three-year-old war should end and on what conditions.
The presence of UK PM Keir Starmer, French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, Italian PM Giorgia Meloni, and other leaders in Washington DC, is also an attempt to ensure Zelenskyy does not get humiliated by Trump again, the way it happened on February 28 this year at the Oval Office.
It is a reflection of how high the stakes are among European leaders, who fear that Trump has once again shifted his stance less favourable to Ukraine after open support in the recent past. This comes as Trump warned Zelenskyy on Sunday that he must relinquish hopes to join the NATO military alliance and should be ready to concede Crimea, annexed by Russia in 2014.
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