Zelenski and Allies head to the White House for Ukraine talks to Trump

US President Donald Trump will host Volodimir Zelenski on Monday for his first meeting after the heated exchange of the White House couple earlier this year – but this time the Ukrainian president carries European allies.

NATO Secretary General Mark Ruth and the United Kingdom Prime Minister Sir Kiir Starmer are among the leaders who will join Zelenski in Washington to talk about how to end the war with Russia.

The following is the Trump summit with Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Alaska, which led to the fact that the US president rejected the request to end the fire and instead called for a constant peace deal.

An American envoy said on Sunday that Putin agreed to a possible security pact similar to NATO for Ukraine.

“Much progress in Russia. Follow!” Trump publishes on his social platform for the truth without being refined.

They also head to Washington for the Monday meeting are French President Emmanuel Macron, Italian Prime Minister Georgy Meloni, German Chancellor Friedrich Mertz, Finnish President Alexander Step and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. It is not clear how many of them will go to the White House.

For so many heads of state, traveling with such a small notice across the Atlantic to what is essentially a meeting of the crisis in wartime, appears without a precedent in the modern era, emphasizing the high bets in heaven.

Diplomatic sources claim that European officials are concerned that Trump may try to press Zelenski to agree to the conditions after the Ukrainian leader was excluded from the Trump-Putin meeting on the American soil last Friday.

But US Secretary of State Marco Rubio told a BBC US partner that any Zelenski proposal can be harassed by Trump to accept a peaceful deal is a “stupid media story”.

NATO leaders also seem eager to avoid the repetition of the February Zaunski trip to the oval office, which sharply ended after a dispute with Trump and US Vice President JD Vance.

The dispute – who saw Trump blamed Zelenski for Gambling with the Third World War – left Washington -Cave’s ties to TATS.

But since then, European leaders have been working hard behind the scenes to fix the relationship. The Ukrainian leader was trained to speak about the conclusion of transactions – a language that resonates with Trump.

In April, Ukraine signed an agreement on minerals, which gave the US a financial share in the country, and Trump and Zelenski spoke privately in the Vatican before Pope Francis’ funeral. Ukraine made it clear that he was ready to pay for weapons in the United States.

By July, the two leaders had a phone call, which the Ukrainian president described as “the best conversation we have had.”

In the meantime, Trump has begun to express irritation from Russia’s relentless pressure in Ukraine. He called Putin “absolutely crazy”, drastically shortened his final deadline and threatened the economic sanctions against Moscow.

As these discussions are grinded, Russian forces continue to progress on the battlefield. They now occupy almost one fifth from Ukraine since Moscow launched its full invasion in February 2022.

On Sunday, a virtual summit was held at the top of Zelenski and the so -called coalition of desire – a group of nations, including the UK, France and Germany, who promised to protect peace in Ukraine after it was achieved.

Emmanuel Macron then told reporters that their plan was to “present a United Front” for Monday talks with Trump.

Zelenski and NATO leaders said they wanted to learn more after our envoy, Steve Vikof, told us on television that Putin had agreed on Friday to “stable security guarantees, which I would describe as a change in the game”.

Vitcof said such an agreement could see Europe and the United States protect Ukraine from further aggression with a NATO-like defense agreement.

“We have been able to win the following concession: that the United States can propose protection of Article 5, which is one of the real reasons why Ukraine wants to be in NATO,” Vikof told CNN on Sunday.

Putin has long opposed NATO’s accession to NATO, and Vitcof said the agreement could be an alternative if Ukrainians can “live with it”.

Article 5 is a principle in the heart of the 32-member transatlantic military union, which says its members will defend themselves as an ally who has been attacked.

Vitcof also told CNN that Russia made “some discounts” about five highly contested Ukraine region.

In talks with European allies after the Alaska Summit, Trump said Putin reiterated that he wanted the regions of the key Donetsk and Luhansk, which make up Donbass, Eastern Ukraine, according to European officials.

But at the virtual summit on Sunday with NATO leaders Zelenski stressed that the Ukrainian constitution makes it impossible to abandon the territory – and that this should be discussed only by the leaders of Ukraine and Russia at a three -sided summit with the United States.

Meanwhile, the US Secretary of State seeks to hope that the deal to terminate the most deadly conflict in Europe in 80 years can be inevitable.

“We’re still long roads,” Rubio said on Sunday.