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Trump says he has begun arrangements for face-to-face meeting between Putin and Ukraine’s Zelenskyy

Trump is coordinating security guarantees from Europe and the US as part of efforts to arrange a Putin-Zelensky meeting aiming to end the nearly four-year conflict in Ukraine.

  • Beginning arrangements for a face-to-face meeting, Trump said Monday that Ukraine's Zelenskyy and Russia's Putin are to meet, calling it a `very good, early step`.
  • Amid discussions on security guarantees, Trump said `began the arrangements for a meeting, at a location to be determined, between President Putin and President Zelensky` after speaking with Putin last week.
  • Participants included European leaders such as Emmanuel Macron, Sir Keir Starmer, Giorgia Meloni, Friedrich Merz, Alexander Stubb, Ursula von der Leyen, and Mark Rutte, and Trump said `President Zelenskyy of Ukraine can end the war with Russia almost immediately, if he wants to, or he can continue to fight` on Truth Social.
  • Following these discussions, Trump said the United States would help arrange European security guarantees for Ukraine if peace could be agreed with Russia, with Rutte calling it a `big step, a breakthrough`.
  • Planning for further talks, Trump indicated he would hold a three-way summit with Zelenskyy and Putin, with Merz saying it could happen within two weeks.
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Despite a flurry of meetings on Russia's war in Ukraine, major obstacles to peace remain

The second Oval Office meeting in six months between U.S. President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy went off smoothly, in sharp contrast to their disastrous encounter in February.

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