By Anjali Sharma
WASHINGTON- President Donald Trump pn Sunday has told European leaders after his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin that he wants to arrange a trilateral summit with Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as soon as August 22, media reported.
Zelensky said in an X post on Saturday that he will meet Trump in Washington on Monday.
Trump also invited the European leaders to join Monday’s White House meeting, according to US online media outlet Axios.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Saturday that a trilateral summit is expected to follow Monday’s meeting between Zelensky and Trump, Xinhua news agency reported.
Russian side has not publicly committed to a trilateral meeting.
Media cited that following his meeting with Putin, the US leader proposed negotiating a peace deal under which Ukraine would give up the rest of the Donbass region to Russia, including areas not liberated by Russian troops, in a phone call with European leaders, TASS reported.
It reported that a ceasefire in the rest of Ukraine at present-day battlefronts and security guarantees, both for Kyiv and Europe, would be offered in return.
Putin and Trump met at the Elmendorf-Richardson military base in Alaska on August 15.
Putin said they mostly focused on resolving the Ukraine conflict.
Trump described his summit with Putin as “very productive”.
He called Zelensky, EU leaders, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.
Trump stressed that Ukraine and Russia should go straight to agreeing on a final peace deal as he dropped his demand for a ceasefire.
He will meet Zelensky at the White House on Monday.
Trump said that if talks with Zelensky are a success, another meeting with Putin will be scheduled.
