Zelensky and Allies go to the White House for discussions in Ukraine with Trump

US President Donald Trump will welcome Volodymyr Zelensky on Monday for his first meeting since the stormy exchange of La Maison Blanche earlier this year – but this time, the Ukrainian president brings European allies.

NATO secretary general, Mark Rutte, and British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer are among the leaders who will join Zelensky in Washington for talks about how to end war with Russia.

He followed the Trump summit with Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Alaska who made the American president abandoned a cease-fire request and calling for a permanent peace agreement.

An American envoy said on Sunday that Putin had accepted a possible NATO -type security pact for Ukraine.

“Great progress on Russia. Stay listening!” Trump posted on his social platform Truth, without developing.

French President Emmanuel Macron, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, German president Friedrich, Finnish president Alexander Stubb and the president of the European Commission, are also to go to Washington for the French meeting, the Italian Italian Prime Minister, the Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, the president of the European Commission. We do not know how many of them will go to the White House.

For so many heads of state to travel with such a small notice through the Atlantic to what is essentially a crisis meeting in wartime appears unprecedented in the modern era, stressing the challenges of heaven.

Diplomatic sources claim that European officials fear that Trump can try to press Zelensky to accept the conditions, after the Ukrainian chief was excluded from the meeting of Trump-Putin on American soil last Friday.

But US Secretary of State Marco Rubio told the American BBC CBS partner that any suggestion Zelensky could be intimidated by Trump to accept a peace agreement was a “story of the stupid media”.

NATO leaders also seem to avoid a rehearsal of Zelensky’s February trip to the oval office that ended suddenly after an argument with Trump and US vice-president JD Vance.

The altercation – which saw Trump accuse Zelensky of “playing with the Second World War” – left the ties of Washington -Kyiv in tatters.

But European leaders have diluted behind the scenes since then to repair the relationship. The Ukrainian chief was trained to speak in terms of competition – a language that resonates with Trump.

In April, Ukraine signed a mineral agreement that gave the United States a financial participation in the country, and Trump and Zelensky spoke in private to the Vatican before the funeral of Pope Francis. Ukraine clearly indicated that he was willing to pay for American weapons.

In July, the two leaders received a phone call that the Ukrainian president described as “the best conversation we have had”.

Meanwhile, Trump had started to express an exasperation with the relentless assault of Russia in Ukraine. He called Putin “absolutely crazy”, radically shortened his deadline for a peace agreement and threatened economic sanctions against Moscow.

While these deliberations are weighed, the Russian forces continue to advance on the battlefield. They have now occupied almost a fifth of Ukraine since Moscow launched its large -scale invasion in February 2022.

A virtual summit took place on Sunday between Zelensky and the so-called volunteer coalition-a group of nations including the United Kingdom, France and Germany who have committed to protecting peace in Ukraine once reached.

Subsequently, Emmanuel Macron told journalists that their plan was to “present a united front” for Monday talks with Trump.

Zelensky and NATO leaders said they were eager to find out more after the American envoy Steve Witkoff told us that Putin had agreed on Friday “robust security guarantees that I would describe as a change of game”.

Witkoff said that such an agreement could see Europe and the United States protecting Ukraine against a new assault with a NATO defense agreement.

“We were able to win the following concession: that the United States could offer type 5 protection, which is one of the real reasons why Ukraine wants to be in NATO,” Witkoff told CNN on Sunday.

Putin had long opposed Ukraine to join NATO, and Witkoff said that the arrangement could be an alternative if the Ukrainians “could live with”.

Article 5 is a principle at the heart of the Transatlantic Military Alliance of 32 members who say that its members will come to the defense of an ally which is attacked.

Witkoff also told CNN that Russia had made “some concessions” around five highly disputed regions of Ukraine.

In talks with European allies after the Alaska summit, Trump said Putin had reiterated that he wanted the main regions of Donetsk and Luhansk who make up the Donbas, eastern Ukraine, according to European officials.

But at the Virtual Summit on Sunday with NATO leaders, Zelensky stressed that the Ukrainian Constitution makes it impossible to give up the territory – and that this should only be discussed by the leaders of Ukraine and Russia at a trilateral summit with the United States.

The American Secretary of State, on the other hand, sought to temper the hope that an agreement to put an end to the deadliest conflict in Europe for 80 years could be imminent.

“We are still far away,” the best diplomat in America said on Sunday.