FROM FOX NEWS: President Donald Trump described his White House negotiations with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and European leaders as “a very good, early step” toward ending the nearly four-year-old Russia-Ukraine war, announcing that he has already spoken with Russian President Vladimir Putin about arranging a direct meeting with Zelenskyy.
Zelenskyy signaled he too was ready to meet directly with Putin.
“We confirmed that we are ready for a trilateral meeting,” the Ukrainian president told reporters after the meeting. “And if Russia proposed to the President of the United States bilateral, and then we will see the result of the bilateral, then it can be trilateral. So I said, always, Ukraine will never stop on the way to peace, and we are ready for any kind of format but on the level of leaders.”
A Kremlin readout of the Trump-Putin call confirmed the pair “discussed the idea of raising the level of direct Russian-Ukrainian negotiations,” but did not say whether Putin had agreed.
Trump also said he and the group of world leaders discussed security guarantees for Ukraine, with European nations “in coordination with the United States” committing, according to a statement he posted on Truth Social.
“Everyone is very happy about the possibility of PEACE for Russia/Ukraine,” Trump said.
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