Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky announced on Saturday that he will travel to Washington on Monday to meet with U.S. president Donald Trump and discuss ways to “end the killing and the war.” The announcement comes as European leaders remain closely engaged following the high-stakes US-Russia summit.
Zelensky said he spoke with President Trump by phone following Trump’s meeting with Russian president Vladimir Putin in Alaska. During the call, Trump reportedly briefed Zelensky on the “main points” of his discussion with Putin. Shortly after, Zelensky confirmed he would travel to the U.S. capital early next week: “On Monday, I will meet with President Trump in Washington to discuss all the details of ending the killing and the war,” he said.
According to Zelensky, the call was “long and substantive,” beginning as a one-on-one conversation and later expanding to include several European leaders.
The Washington meeting is scheduled to take place just three days after the Trump-Putin talks concluded in Alaska, which ended without any major breakthrough in efforts to stop Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine—now entering its fourth year.
Following the summit, Zelensky urged Kyiv’s European allies to be involved in “all stages” of future negotiations and reiterated his longstanding call for a trilateral meeting with Trump and Putin—an initiative Ukraine has supported for some time, though the Kremlin has so far rejected it.
Meanwhile, European leaders held urgent consultations on Saturday to assess the outcome of the U.S.-Russia talks. According to a European Commission spokesperson, leaders held a joint video call following their initial exchange with President Trump. Among those participating were European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen, French president Emmanuel Macron, German chancellor Friedrich Merz, British prime minister Keir Starmer, and NATO secretary general Mark Rutte.
