Trump moves away from the request for a ceasefire of the war of Ukraine and seeks a matter of peace, echoing Putin’s position

Three hours of talks between the White House and the Kremlin leaders in an Alaska air base produced no breakthroughs, but Trump and European leaders said they wanted a new summit that includes Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

Zelensky will now go to Washington on Monday while European leaders said they were ready to intensify sanctions against Russia after Trump informed them of the summit.

Trump remained optimistic, calling the summit “a great day very successful in Alaska!” In a social article of truth. The American president added that European leaders had supported his plan for a new summit.

“It was determined by all that the best way to put an end to the horrible war between Russia and Ukraine is to go directly to a peace agreement, which would end the war, and not to a simple cease-fire agreement, which would not often keep,” he added.

Zelensky in Washington

He confirmed Monday’s meeting with Zelensky and said he hoped that a Trump-Putin-Zelensky summit would follow. “Potentially, millions of people will be saved,” said Trump.

Before the summit, Trump had warned of “serious consequences” if Russia did not accept a cease-fire.

Asked about this subject by Fox News after the talks, Trump said that “because of what happened today, I think I don’t have to think about it now”.

Putin said on several occasions that only a peace agreement could interrupt the war he had ordered in February 2022, which made tens of thousands of dead and general destruction in Ukraine.

Putin again spoke of speaking to the “deep causes” of the conflict at the top and some analysts said Trump had perhaps conceded the field.

“Faced with what seems to be the Stonewalling of Putin, Conferences on History or other Dodges, Trump again fell back,” said Daniel Fried, a former American ambassador to Poland and now a scholarship holder of the Atlantic Council.

Returning to Washington, Trump spoke first with Zelensky, said the White House.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, French president Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, NATO secretary general, Mark Rutte, and the president of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen and other European leaders then joined the appeal, said officials.

The Europeans, who were wary of the Alaska meeting, had their own talks on Saturday and then expressed their support for a new summit.

Their declaration did not mention a cease-fire, just the need for greater action to force Russia to “a just and lasting peace”.

“As long as the murder in Ukraine continues, we are ready to maintain pressure on Russia. We will continue to strengthen sanctions and wider economic measures to put pressure on the Russian war economy until there is just and lasting peace,” they said.

War continued despite the summit. Ukraine announced on Saturday that Russia launched 85 attack drones and a ballistic missile overnight. Russia said it had taken two other villages in Ukraine.

Trump and Putin emerged from their talks to offer warm words during a 12 -minute press briefing, but took no questions.

“We are not there yet, but we have made progress. There is no agreement before there is an agreement,” said Trump.

He called the “extremely productive” meeting with “several points” agreed, but did not offer details.

‘Next time in Moscow’

Putin also spoke in general terms. “We hope that the understanding we have reached is going … will open the way to peace in Ukraine.”

Putin warned Ukraine and European countries to “not create obstacles” and not to “try to disrupt this emerging progress by provocation or intrigue behind the scenes”.

While Trump was thinking about a second meeting, Putin smiled and said in English: “next time in Moscow”.

Putin warns Western allies

Trump, whose tone with Zelensky has changed since he reprimanded the Ukrainian chief in the White House in February, told Fox that “now it’s President Zelensky to do so”.

Zelensky, who rejected the Russian requirements that Ukraine abandoned the territory, was not invited to the talks on Friday. But he said on Saturday that he had supported American efforts.

“It is important that America’s strength has an impact on the development of the situation,” he said.

In recent days, Russia has achieved battlefield gains that could strengthen Putin’s hand in all negotiations.

Although Ukraine has announced that Putin was flying into the fact that he had taken over several villages, the Russian army said Kolodyazi’s capture in the Donetsk region in Ukraine and Vorone in the neighboring Dnipropetrovsk region on Saturday.