US President Donald Trump is having a long phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and, according to the White House, also speaking with NATO leaders.
U.S. President Has Already Talked to Zelensky and NATO Leaders
President Trump has already spoken with Zelenskyy and NATO leaders. Donald Trump returned from Alaska, where he met Vladimir Putin. According to the White House, the president had a long telephone conversation with President Zelenskyy and NATO leaders. “Air Force One landed at Joint Base Andrews. Donald Trump is currently on the phone with Volodymyr Zelenskyy and others, hence the delay in disembarking,” the White House said in a statement after 8:20 PM Polish time. Earlier, in an interview with Fox News, Trump said that everything now depends on Volodymyr Zelenskyy. He advised the Ukrainian president to reach a war‑ending agreement. When asked about the advice given to Zelenskyy, he answered that an agreement must be concluded because Russia is a very powerful state, while Ukraine is not.
Who Did Donald Trump Speak To?
After speaking with President Zelenskyy, Donald Trump was supposed to speak with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, EU Council President Antonio Costa, and other European leaders, including Polish President Andrzej Duda, French President Emmanuel Macron, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, and NATO Secretary‑General Mark Rutte. After this conversation, a meeting of European leaders took place, in which Prime Minister Donald Tusk also participated.
Ukraine Disappointed by the Trump‑Putin Meeting
Ukrain commentators did not expect a breakthrough and were not disappointed. They described the Alaskan summit as “technical” and “full of dramatic gestures.” The editor‑in‑chief of “The New Times,” Jewgienija Albac, termed the summit a failure of its very idea. “It was no surprise. I expected it to be a failure, both the meeting itself and the entire summit,” she said. “The winner of this summit is Putin,” added the independent journalist during a television interview with Deszcz. According to Russian independent commentators, the meeting was a missed opportunity to force Putin into real talks about ending the war in Ukraine. They do not believe Kyiv will agree to any territorial concessions. In their view, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy can only agree to a freeze of military actions in various forms.
Putin in Alaska, Russia Continues Bombing Ukraine
In the night in Anchorage, Alaska, US President Donald Trump met with Vladimir Putin. The talks did not bring a breakthrough, and the details of the conversation remain unknown. Meanwhile, Russia launched 85 attacks on Ukraine with drones and ballistic missiles last night, according to Ukrainian air forces. The attacks targeted villages in Sumy, Donetsk, Kherson, and Dnipropetrovsk regions. The consequences of the attacks are unknown. Ukrainian defense destroyed 61 drones.
