{"id":71131,"date":"2025-08-16T11:46:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T11:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/71131\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T11:46:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T11:46:11","slug":"zelenskyy-to-meet-trump-on-monday-after-putin-summit-briefing-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/71131\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelenskyy to meet Trump on Monday after Putin summit briefing | Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Ukraine\u2019s president said he would fly to Washington on Monday to meet with Donald Trump after a telephone call with the US president in which he was briefed on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/aug\/16\/ukraine-war-briefing-up-to-zelenskyy-to-reach-ceasefire-with-russia-says-trump-after-putin-summit\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the key points of the Alaska summit<\/a>. The meeting will mark the first return to the White House for Volodymyr Zelenskyy since his infamous row with Trump in late February.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Zelenskyy said that his hour-long one-on-one conversation with Trump was \u201clong and substantive\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cPresident Trump informed [me] about his meeting with the Russian leader and the main points of their discussion,\u201d Zelenskyy wrote, adding that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/ukraine\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ukraine<\/a> supported Trump\u2019s proposal for a trilateral meeting between the two men and Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Zelenskyy did not spell out what the key points of discussion between Trump and Putin were, while the president\u2019s chief communications adviser said that they \u201chaven\u2019t heard anything\u201d about a possible air ceasefire before a leaders summit in response to a social media post from a journalist.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">European leaders joined the call for a further half an hour, Zelenskyy added, emphasising that \u201cit is important that Europeans are involved at every stage to ensure reliable security guarantees together with America\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">There were also \u201cpositive signals\u201d from the US, Zelenskyy said, \u201cregarding participation in guaranteeing Ukraine\u2019s security\u201d, echoing diplomatic language from last week in the run-up to the summit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Previously, the US has declined to spell out how it might help prevent a future outbreak of fighting as part of a peace agreement, leading to speculation that Washington was looking to leave the safeguarding of Ukraine almost entirely to Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ukraine\u2019s president said he would fly to Washington on Monday to meet with Donald Trump after a telephone&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71132,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-71131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}