Zelenskyy Meets Trump in Washington – August 16, 2025

The president of Ukraine, Volodimir Zelenskiannounced this Saturday (16.08.2025) that he will meet with his American couple, Donald Trump, next Monday in Washington to address the war in Ukraine, after the meeting between the US president and the leader of the Russian regime, Vladimir Putin. Zelenski and Trump conversed this same day by “the main points” of the Alaska Summit.

“On Monday I will meet with President Trump in Washington, DC, to discuss all the details to end the killings and war,” Zelenski said through an X (Twitter) publication. “I appreciate the invitation. It is important that Europeans participate in each stage to provide reliable security guarantees, together with the United States,” he continued.

The Ukrainian leader said he had had a telephone conversation of approximately one hour with Trump, which several European leaders later joined. “Ukraine reaffirms his willingness to make the maximum effort to achieve peace,” emphasized the Ukrainian President, who also stressed the importance of “the US strength. Uu. Has an impact on the evolution of the situation.”

Support meeting with Trump and Putin

The Ukrainian president also reiterated his desire to celebrate a trilateral meeting with Trump and Putin, as proposed by the American tycoon. “Ukraine emphasizes that at the level of leaders you can address key issues and a trilateral format is suitable for this,” he wrote, added that he had spoken with Trump about “positive signals by the United States” to provide safety guarantees to kyiv.

After the initial conversation between Zelenski and Trump, the French president, Emmanuel Macron; German Chancellor Friedrich Merz; the president of Finland, Alexander Stubb; the Italian Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni; the president of Poland, Karol Nawrocki; the British prime minister, Keir Starmer; NATO general secretary Mark Rutte; the US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio; and the special envoy of the USA Steve Witkoff.

DZC (AFP, EFE)