Trump and Zelensky to discuss three key issues as they’re set to meet today… while Russia launches thousands of strikes on Ukraine
Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy are set to meet to discuss a peace deal that could end the almost four-year war between Russia and Ukraine.
The White House said that the US President will host his Ukrainian counterpart at Mar-a-Lago, where he spent his holiday, at 1 pm EST.
Three important issues will be discussed at the talks: increasing pressure on Russia, security guarantees and investment in post-war reconstruction. Washington Post.
This incident came just a day after Russia launched a barrage of missiles on Kiev, killing at least one person and injuring 20 more, according to the mayor of the Ukrainian capital.
While Russian President Vladimir Putin showed little interest in negotiating a peace agreement, Zelenskyy said Ukraine was ‘ready to do whatever it takes to stop this war’.
Writing to X on Saturday, Zelenskyy said: ‘The number one or only priority for us is to end the war. For us, the priority is peace.
‘We need to be strong at the negotiation table.’ To be strong, we need the support of the world: Europe and the United States.’
Zelenskyy said his country needs more air defense, weapons and money.
Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy are set to discuss three key issues as they discuss a peace deal that could end almost four years of war
While Russian President Vladimir Putin has shown little interest in negotiating a peace deal, Zelenskyy said in the above post that Ukraine is ‘ready to do whatever it takes to stop this war.’
“If the whole world, Europe and America are on our side, we will stop Putin together,” he wrote.
Trump told Policy He thought the meeting in Palm Beach would go well, but added: ‘Zelenskyy has nothing until I approve it.’
“We’ll see what he’s got,” the US president said in comments published Friday.
The engagement will be Trump and Zelenskyy’s sixth meeting this year, and their relationship has been improving since their heated Oval Office fight on February 28.
This initial meeting turned into a heated argument, with Trump and Vice President JD Vance accusing Zelenskyy of not showing gratitude for US support.
In early December, the US President’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr. He also told reporters that his father might withdraw from supporting Ukraine if Kiev refused to sit at the negotiating table with Moscow.
Last month, Trump expressed his desire to end the war to make business deals with Putin, hoping to bring billions of dollars from the Russian economy to the United States.
a report Wall StreetJournal It details how Trump’s team, including son-in-law Jared Kushner and special envoy Steve Witkoff, negotiated with Russia on how to ‘bring its $2 trillion economy out of the cold’.
While Russian President Vladimir Putin showed little interest in negotiating a peace agreement, Zelenskyy said Ukraine was ‘ready to do whatever it takes to stop this war’.
Witkoff reportedly hosted Putin’s ‘hand-picked’ negotiator Kirill Dmitriev and Kushner at a Miami Beach beachfront estate to draw up a plan to end the war, while also ensuring that American businesses outperform their European counterparts in making money once the conflict ends.
Dmitriev is said to be pushing for $300 billion of Russian central bank assets frozen in Europe to be used in US-Russia joint investment projects and the ‘US-led reconstruction’ of Ukraine.
During a meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney in Halifax, Nova Scotia, on Saturday, Zelenskyy said the key to peace was “pressure on Russia and adequate, strong support for Ukraine.”
To that end, Carney announced that Ukraine had received an additional C$2.5 billion (US$1.8 billion) in economic aid from his government to help rebuild Ukraine.
Condemning the “barbarity” of Russia’s latest attacks on Kiev, Carney stated that both Zelenskyy and Trump created the necessary conditions for a “fair and lasting peace” at a critical moment.
Sitting face to face, Trump and Zelenskyy underlined the apparent progress Trump’s top negotiators have made in recent weeks as the sides exchange views on draft peace plans and continue to shape a proposal to end the conflict.
Zelenskyy told reporters on Friday that the 20-point draft proposal discussed by negotiators was ‘about 90 percent ready’; That echoed the number and optimism conveyed by U.S. officials when Trump’s chief negotiators met with Zelenskyy in Berlin earlier this month.
