Zelensky to Meet Trump in Washington After Putin Summit Ends Without Deal:Trump admitted \u201cwe didn\u2019t get there\u201d after the three-hour talks with Putin, though he insisted some progress had been made.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will meet Donald Trump in Washington on Monday, after a high-profile summit between the US president and Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Alaska ended without a breakthrough on ending the war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Trump admitted \u201cwe didn\u2019t get there\u201d after the three-hour talks with Putin, though he insisted some progress had been made.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Putin, for his part, said he was \u201csincerely interested\u201d in ending the war, but offered no details. Neither leader took questions from the media after their meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Zelensky, who had been excluded from the Alaska summit, confirmed his trip to Washington following what he described as a \u201clong and substantive\u201d phone call with Trump aboard Air Force One. He said the two leaders spoke privately for about an hour before European counterparts joined the conversation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Ukrainian president\u2019s statement contained little concrete detail but projected optimism, reflecting Kyiv\u2019s effort to maintain stable ties with Trump after their rocky Oval Office meeting in February.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He stressed that future talks should involve all three leaders\u2014Trump, Putin, and himself\u2014and underlined the need for European participation \u201cat every stage to ensure reliable security guarantees together with America.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For many Ukrainians, the presence of European leaders is seen as a safeguard against the possibility of Trump being swayed by Putin. The Alaska summit highlighted these concerns, with Kyiv expressing frustration at being sidelined from the initial negotiations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Adding to the sensitivity of the discussions was the issue of children abducted during the war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to US officials, Trump personally handed Putin a letter from First Lady Melania Trump, raising the plight of children in both Ukraine and Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Melania, who was born in Slovenia, did not attend the summit, but her letter reportedly addressed the forced deportations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kyiv estimates that at least 19,500 Ukrainian children have been deported or forcibly displaced to Russia and Russian-occupied territories since Moscow\u2019s full-scale invasion began in February 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The matter remains one of the most emotive issues in Ukraine, where many insist no peace deal should be signed without the safe return of all abducted children.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n The International Criminal Court in 2023 issued arrest warrants for Putin and Russia\u2019s children\u2019s rights commissioner, Maria Lvova-Belova, over the alleged unlawful deportation of Ukrainian children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Zelensky\u2019s upcoming talks with Trump in Washington are now expected to focus not only on the broader framework for peace but also on these urgent humanitarian demands.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Zelensky to Meet Trump in Washington After Putin Summit Ends Without Deal:Trump admitted \u201cwe didn\u2019t get there\u201d after the three-hour talks with Putin, though he insisted some progress had been made. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will meet Donald Trump in Washington on Monday, after a high-profile summit between the US president and Russian leader Vladimir … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5062,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_wppp_is_locked":false,"_wppp_selected_plans":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-high-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawsandlegals.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawsandlegals.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawsandlegals.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawsandlegals.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawsandlegals.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lawsandlegals.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7572,"href":"https:\/\/lawsandlegals.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7300\/revisions\/7572"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawsandlegals.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawsandlegals.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawsandlegals.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawsandlegals.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}