As “superficial”, some analysts characterize Donald Trump’s meeting with Volodimir Zelenski and European leaders at the White House on Monday night (18.08.2025). Although the meeting was completed in a good climate, and the next steps aimed at Peace in Ukraine were agreed, none of the two positions were back in terms of sanctions and land exchange.
Donald Trump after completing talks, informed via Truth Social How the next time there will be a bilateral meeting between Vladimir Putin and Volodimir Zelenski and immediately after a tripartite where he will participate.
He has not yet taken the Kremlin about what was said Monday night at the White House.
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As for the key points of conversations between Donald Trump, Volodimer Jelly, Ursula von der Layen, Marke Rutte, Georgia Meloni, Kir Starmer, Emmanuel Macron, Alexander Stubb and Friedrich MerzSky News mentions it in its analysis.
Security guarantees
In a very important step towards an agreement, Donald Trump promised that the US would participate in providing security guarantees for Ukraine.
The American leader said there would be some form of security guarantees for Ukraine but did not disclose If this will include US troops.
The US president said Vladimir Putin “agreed that Russia would accept security guarantees for Ukraine”.
“I think the European nations will bear much of the weight. We will help them and make it very safe. “
The Financial Times, however With European funds, in return for security guarantees.
His comments were accepted with satisfaction by European leaders, with the Ursula von der Layenchairman of the European Commission, to declare that it was “good to hear” that nations work on “Article 5 security guarantees”.
Article 5 of NATO stipulates that an attack on a member of a member is considered an attack on all of them.
“When we talk about security guarantees, we are talking about the whole security of the European continent,” said French President Emmanuel Macron.
He added that a guarantee that would like to arise from any agreements is that Ukraine should be able to have a “credible” army for “the years and decades to come”.
The scenario of Ukraine to finally enter NATO, is considered a thing of the past.
No ceasefire of fire
Donald Trump said there is no need for a truce in Ukraine because a peace deal could be reached while Ukraine and Russia are in war.
“I don’t think a ceasefire needs a ceasefire. You know, if you look at the 6 agreements I closed this year, they were all in war, I didn’t get any ceasefire, “he said.
“I know it may be good to exist, but I can also understand, strategically, because one or the other would not want it. You have a truce and rebuild, rebuild and rebuild, and they may not want it. “
He said that he liked the “concept of truce” because people would stop killing, but “we can reach an agreement where we will work for a peace agreement while they are fighting.”
It is recalled that until before Meeting him with Vladimir Putin in Alaska, Donald Trump stated that he would leave happy with this session, Only if a ceasefire agreement is reached.
The German Chancellor, Friedrich Mertz He said that “we would all like to see a truce.”
“I can’t imagine that the next meeting will take place without a ceasefire, so let’s work on it and try to put pressure on Russia,” he said.
Donald Trump later reacted, saying he didn’t need a truce to end other wars, but would welcome it if needed.
Trump – Putin – Zelenski meeting
The US president said that “if all goes well”, there will be a tripartite meeting between himself, Vladimir Putin and Volodimir Zelenski.
The latter said he was ready for such a meeting and Donald Trump confirmed that Vladimir Putin is in the same position.
Emmanuel Macron said that while a tripartite meeting is important, a “four -day” summit should also be held.
It was not clear whether the French president meant a meeting in which France would attend or if he meant that NATO, the EU or the “coalition of the willing”.
Donald Trump said he would call Vladimir Putin “immediately after” meetings at the White House, but eventually interrupted the conversation with European leaders to call his Russian counterpart in the middle of the meeting, according to an EU diplomat.
‘Dangerous’ territory exchanges
“We also need to discuss possible territorial exchanges,” the US president said in view of the multilateral talks.
He said that such exchanges should take “the current contact line”.
“This means the war zone, the war lines that are now, quite obvious, very sad, in fact, to look at them and the negotiating positions.”
This comes after the information published by Vladimir Putin, who allegedly has asked to take control of the eastern areas Donetsk and Luhansk of Ukraine during the Alaska summit with Donald Trump as a prerequisite for ending the war.
In return, Russia would grant other Ukrainian territories held by its troops.
Russian troops are currently holding large sections of 2 areas and, in September 2022, Moscow announced that the annexation officially, along with the Hersona and Zaporizia areas, in a move that was rejected and convicted as illegal by the West.
Volodimir Zelenski had previously ruled out the possibility of any region in Moscow.