U.S. President Donald Trump spends a long call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, confirming that he also spoke with NATO leaders, as the White House reports.
US President already conversed with Zelensky and NATO leaders
President Trump returned from Alaska after meeting with President Vladimir Putin. According to the White House, he had an extended phone conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and other NATO leaders. “Air Force One landed at Joint Base Andrews. The president is currently speaking with Zelensky and others, which explains the delay in leaving the aircraft,” the agency said in a release at 08:20 Polish time. In a Fox News interview, Trump said that everything now depends on Zelensky, advising him to seek an agreement to end the war. When asked for the counsel given to Zelensky, Trump responded that a settlement is necessary because Russia is a great power, whereas Ukraine is not.
Who did Donald Trump talk to?
After his call with Zelensky, Trump was scheduled to speak with European leaders including European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, European Council President Antonio Costa, and others such as Polish President Krzysztof Nawrocki, former Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, French President Emmanuel Macron, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte. At 09:30, an ambassadors’ meeting of EU member states was convened in Brussels to discuss Trump’s summit with Putin in Alaska.
Ukraine disappointed with the Trump‑Putin Summit
Ukrainian commentators did not expect a breakthrough, labeling the Alaska meeting “technical” and “full of theatrical gestures.” The editor of The New Times, Yevgeniy Albac, described the summit’s result as a failure of its very concept. “There were no surprises. I expected a failure both in the meeting itself and in the summit overall, and it was indeed so. Putin is clearly the winner,” he said in an interview with Deszcz TV. Russian observers view the summit as a missed opportunity to compel Putin into realistic ceasefire talks, doubting Kyiv’s willingness to make territorial concessions. They believe Zelensky may only agree to freeze military actions in various forms.
Putin in Alaska, Russia Continues to Bomb Ukraine
During the night in Anchorage, a summit between President Trump and President Putin took place, yielding no breakthrough, with details remaining undisclosed. Meanwhile, Russian forces launched 85 drone and ballistic missile attacks on Ukraine last night. Ukrainian air forces reported 61 drones destroyed, targeting settlements in Sumy, Donetsk, Chernihiv, and Dnipro regions. The full impact of the attacks is yet unknown.