{"id":46179,"date":"2025-08-16T01:06:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T06:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=46179"},"modified":"2025-08-17T20:14:31","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T01:14:31","slug":"trump-putin-summit-zelenskyy-to-travel-to-dc-on-monday-to-meet-with-president-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=46179","title":{"rendered":"Trump-Putin summit: Zelenskyy to travel to DC on Monday to meet with President Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Following what was described as a \u201clengthy\u201d phone call with President Donald Trump, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced that he will travel to Washington on Monday to meet with President Donald Trump. A White House official said Trump has invited European leaders to join the meeting on Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin met in Alaska on Friday and while Putin mentioned an &#8220;agreement&#8221; in the post-meeting news conference and Trump said &#8220;great progress&#8221; was made, there was no mention of a ceasefire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Sunday that both Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/rubio-trumps-position-ukraine-changed-summit\/story?id=124720721\">must make concessions<\/a>&nbsp;to achieve a peace deal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;You can&#8217;t have a peace agreement unless both sides give and get. You can&#8217;t have a peace agreement unless both sides make concessions,&#8221; Rubio told ABC News&#8217; &#8220;This Week&#8221; co-anchor Martha Raddatz. &#8220;If not, it&#8217;s just called surrender, and neither side is going to surrender, so both sides are going to have to make concessions.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Trump\u2019s special envoy Steve Witkoff said that despite Trump\u2019s demands for a ceasefire going into the meeting, substantial progress made during the talks eliminated a ceasefire as a preliminary step.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cWe made so much progress at this meeting with regard to all the other ingredients necessary for a peace deal that we &#8212; that President Trump pivoted to that place,\u201d he said on CNN\u2019s \u201cState of the Union.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Trump was active on social media on Sunday morning, suggesting that there is &#8220;big progress&#8221; being made regarding Russia without providing details.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">His post follows his summit in Alaska on Friday with Russian President Vladimir Putin and precedes his upcoming meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and European leaders on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;BIG PROGRESS ON RUSSIA. STAY TUNED!&#8221; Trump wrote on social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">He also expressed disagreement with the media&#8217;s portrayal of potential land swaps. Trump claimed that the media would continue to criticize him, even if he achieved a diplomatic victory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;If I got Russia to give up Moscow as part of the Deal, the Fake News, and their PARTNER, the Radical Left Democrats, would say I made a terrible mistake and a very bad deal. That\u2019s why they are the FAKE NEWS! Also, they should talk about the 6 WARS, etc., I JUST STOPPED!!!&#8221; he wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">President Donald Trump invited European leaders to join his meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Monday afternoon at the White House, a White House official said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The meeting comes after Trump&#8217;s summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">After meeting with President Donald Trump in Alaska, Russian President Vladimir Putin told Kremlin officials the summit was &#8220;timely and very useful,&#8221; saying the two talked about &#8220;all aspects of our cooperation&#8221; along with a &#8220;possible resolution of the Ukrainian crisis on a fair basis.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Regarding the Russia-Ukraine war, Putin said he and Trump talked about the &#8220;genesis and the causes of this crisis,&#8221; saying &#8220;it is the elimination of these root causes that should be the basis for a settlement.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;The conversation was very frank and informative, and I believe that it brings us closer to the necessary solutions,&#8221; Putin said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Putin added that he respects &#8220;the position of the American administration, which sees the need to end the hostilities as soon as possible.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/live-updates\/trump-putin-meeting-summit-alaska\/?id=124656413\">abcnews<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following what was described as a \u201clengthy\u201d phone call with President Donald Trump, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced that he will travel to Washington on Monday to meet with President Donald Trump. 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