The US is hoping for a trilateral meeting involving Trump, Putin, and Zelensky later this week, an unnamed White House official has told the Washington Post. However, the official noted that Monday’s discussions may not immediately lead to such a meeting.
- 19:54 GMT
In a statement, nations belonging to the ‘Coalition of the Willing’ have again said they are ready to deploy troops to Ukraine once hostilities cease.
“[The leaders] re-emphasised the readiness to deploy a reassurance force once hostilities have ceased, and to help secure Ukraine’s skies and seas and regenerate Ukraine’s armed forces.”
French President Emmanuel Macron and UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer co-chaired a virtual meeting of the group’s leaders with Zelensky.
Over 30 countries, including EU members and NATO allies, are part of the group led by France and the UK.
- 18:55 GMT
The state secretary of the Security Council of Belarus, Aleksandr Volfovich, believes it unlikely that the West wants to totally halt or even temporarily pause the fighting in the Ukraine conflict.
“We can see how painfully, unfortunately, the Western leadership – Western politicians above all – react to issues related to stopping or suspending hostilities… They are not interested in this,” Volfovich told STV television.
- 18:15 GMT
Kiev will try to come up with a cunning ploy for discussing the territorial issue, Pavel Feldman, a professor at the Academy of Labor and Social Relations told RT. He thinks that Zelensky faces a difficult dilemma after the summit in Alaska. If he rejects the peace initiative involving concessions, this will disappoint Trump and threaten to end aid.
“But if Zelensky publicly declares readiness to discuss the territorial issue, he will be immediately swept away by local nationalists, who are still obsessed with the idea of returning Ukraine to its 1991 borders,” Feldman said.
Most likely, Zelensky will demand abstract trilateral negotiations, but Russia is unlikely to agree to this, he added.
- 18:15 GMT
Speaking after a meeting of the ‘Coalition of the Willing’, French President Emmanuel Macron said he would travel to Washington with Zelensky and other European leaders to present what he called a united front for “a robust, lasting peace.”
Macron stressed that “no discussion on Ukraine can take place without Ukrainians,” and tied any territorial questions to binding security guarantees. He insisted that Ukraine’s own army must remain “the first pillar” of its defense, reinforced by allied reassurance forces, with several states ready to contribute training, logistics, and a non-frontline presence. He added that France and Europe would press the US to clarify “how far and to what point” it is prepared to join these guarantees, claiming that European security depends on firmness against Russia
- 16:19 GMT
US special envoy Steve Witkoff has said that Presidents Trump and Putin reached a breakthrough on security guarantees for Ukraine during their meeting on Friday. The leaders agreed to what he called “robust” and “game-changing”guarantees.
Speaking on CNN’s State of the Union, Witkoff revealed that Russia accepted language effectively offering Ukraine protections similar to NATO’s Article Five, which treats an attack on one member as an attack on all.
Witkoff added that the proposal also includes legal commitments by Russia not to pursue territorial expansion once a peace agreement is finalized. That would mean enshrined guarantees against future aggression toward Ukraine or other European countries.
He argued the framework bypasses Ukraine’s long-stalled NATO bid while still delivering the core protection Kiev has sought for years: US-backed collective defense.
Trump has shared a post on his Truth Social account saying that “Ukraine must be willing to lose some territory to Russia otherwise the longer the war goes on they will keep losing even more land!!”
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“Quick send in the clowns”
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