By Anjali Sharma
WASHINGTON – US President Donald Trump said on Saturday that he will meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the Oval Office on Monday, after his Alaska summit with Vladimir Putin ended without any deal on Ukraine, according to media reports.
Zelensky said the meeting will focus on “ending the killing and the war” following a long phone call with Trump joined by European leaders.
“President Zelensky will be coming to Washington, D.C., on Monday afternoon,” Trump told reporters, added that if things go well, he would also plan another meeting with Putin.
Zelensky confirmed the invitation, stated he had a “long and substantive” phone call with Trump after the Alaska talks. He said the upcoming meeting would focus on “ending the killing and the war.”
He announced on Saturday that he will visit Washington on Monday to meet US President Donald Trump and discuss ways to “end the killing and the war.”
Zelensky said the decision followed a detailed phone call with Trump, who briefed him on the main points of his summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Friday. That meeting ended without a ceasefire or breakthrough to halt Russia’s three-year-long invasion of Ukraine.
Zelensky wrote on X “On Monday, I will meet with President Trump in Washington, D.C., to discuss all the details regarding ending the killing and the war. I am grateful for the invitation.”
He described his talk with Trump as “long and substantive,” starting one-on-one before European leaders joined in.
According to the White House officials, Trump held the call while flying back from Alaska. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte, and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen later joined the discussion.
Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin met in Alaska on Friday to discuss to end Russia’s military operations in Ukraine, but the talks ended with no results.
