Long gone are the days when it seemed impossible that Trump and Putin (and Zelensky) would meet.
In the aftermath of the US-Russia Alaska Summit, the peace process continues at a rapid pace.
We learned today that Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky will go to DC to meet with Donald J. Trump, possible accompanied by some European leaders.
But a report also arises today that Trump is pushing for a trilateral meeting with Zelensky and Russia’s Putin.
President Trump wants to arrange a trilateral summit with Putin and Zelensky as soon as next Friday, August 22, two sources with knowledge said. @DavidLawler10 and me write for @axioshttps://t.co/gJWI1nd4JY
— Barak Ravid (@BarakRavid) August 16, 2025
Axios reported:
“Trump will meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Monday in Washington. He also told European leaders in a post-summit call that he wants to arrange a trilateral summit with Putin and Zelensky as soon as next Friday, the sources said. But based on Putin’s conditions, a major breakthrough appears unlikely.
Trump also invited the European leaders on the call to join Monday’s White House meeting, the sources said.
Trump and his special envoy Steve Witkoff briefed Zelensky and the leaders of the U.K., France, Germany, Italy, Finland, NATO and the European Commission on Putin’s positions last night on their flight back to Washington.”
Read: Putin Proposes, in Return for the Control of the Donbas Region, to Freeze the Frontlines in Ukraine’s Southern Kherson and Zaporozhie, No More Russian Territorial Conquests: REPORT
“They said Putin had demanded that Ukraine cede two of the four regions to which Russia has laid claim (Donetsk and Luhansk), and freeze the front lines in the other two (Kherson and Zaporizhzhia). Russia controls nearly all of Luhansk, but only about three-quarters of Donetsk.”
Putin was apparently also willing to negotiate the areas in Ukraine’s Sumy and Kharkiv regions that Russian forces have conquered.
Read more:
THE HANDSHAKE: Media Hacks Called It a Failure, but Historic Alaska Summit Puts US and Russia on Path to Peace – Now It’s up to Zelensky to ‘Make a Deal’ (VIDEO COLLECTION)
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