U.S. President Donald Trump had a long phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and NATO leaders after his meeting with Vladimir Putin in Alaska.
U.S. President Already Talked with Zelensky and NATO Leaders
The United States president has already spoken with Volodymyr Zelensky and NATO leaders.
Trump Returns from Alaska After Meeting Putin
Donald Trump returned from Alaska, where he met with Vladimir Putin. According to the White House, the U.S. president will have a phone conversation with Volodymyr Zelensky and NATO leaders. “Air Force One landed at Joint Base Andrews. Donald Trump is currently talking on the phone with Volodymyr Zelensky and others, which explains the delay in disembarkation,” the White House said in a statement after 8:20 p.m. Polish time. Earlier, in an interview with Fox News, Trump said that everything now depends on Volodymyr Zelensky. He advised the Ukrainian president to reach an agreement to end the war. When asked about the advice given to Zelensky, he answered that an agreement is needed because Russia is a very powerful state and Ukraine is not.
Ukraine Disappointed with Trump‑Putin Meeting
Ukrainian commentators did not expect a breakthrough and did not see one. They described the meeting in Alaska as “technical” and “filled with gestures.” The editor of “The New Times” magazine, Jewgienija Albac, described the summit’s results as a failure of the idea of such a meeting itself. “It had no surprises. I expected it to be a failure, both the meeting itself and the entire summit, and it was. Of course, the winner of this summit is Putin,” said an independent journalist in a TV interview with Deszcz. According to Russian independent commentators, the meeting in Alaska was a missed opportunity to force Putin into real talks about stopping the war in Ukraine. They do not believe Kyiv will agree to any territorial concessions. In their view, President Volodymyr Zelensky can only agree to freeze military actions in various forms.
Putin in Alaska, Russia Continues Bombing Ukraine
During the night in Anchorage, Alaska, a meeting took place between U.S. President Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin. It did not bring a breakthrough, and the details of the discussions remain unknown. Meanwhile, last night Russians carried out 85 attacks on Ukraine with drones and ballistic missiles. According to Ukrainian air forces, the targets of the attacks were towns in the Sumy, Donetsk, Chernihiv and Dnipro regions. The consequences of the attacks are not known. The Ukrainian defense destroyed 61 drones.
