The president of Ukraine, Volodimir Zelenski, will meet on Monday in the city of Washington with his American couple, Donald Trump, in a meeting where important European leaders will also be. “This is the first meeting in this format, and it is very serious,” he wrote from X the Ukrainian.
The meeting is of the utmost importance, and will be held with the warning of Trump, such as Zelensky must accept some of Russia’s conditions, including Ukraine Ceda Crimea and undertakes not ever joining NATO, so that the war ends.
I thank @Generalkellogg For the Meeting and for the Joint Work With Our Team. President Trump Invited Ukraine and Other European Countries to Washington Today – This is the First Meeting in Such A Format, and it is very serious.
WHEN PEACE IS DISCUSSED FOR ONE COUNTRY IN EUROPE, … pic.twitter.com/zmzaizaghd
– Volodymyr Zelenskyy / володимир зеленсьий (@zelenskyyua) August 18, 2025
Shortly before his arrival in the US, the Ukrainian President said that a peace for Ukraine must be lasting and not an agreement that serves Putin to launch a new attack, as happened in 2014 after the occupation of Crimea and part of Donbas.
Then, he points EFEUkraine was forced to temporarily yield part of its territory. Nor, according to Zelenski, the 1994 situation must be repeated when Ukraine received a series of security guarantees -to change his atomic weapons.
“Russia must end this war, which she began. And I hope that our joint force with the United States and our European friends drives Russia towards a true peace,” he concluded.
According to CNNtogether with the Ukrainian president, the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen will be at the meeting; NATO general secretary Mark Rutte; the British prime minister, Keir Starmer; the French president, Emmanuel Macron; German Friedrich Merz Foreign Minister; Italian Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni and Finnish President Alexander Stubb.
Alaska, 3,2,1 …
Putin presented his demands for “territories exchange” with Ukraine during his summit with the US president, Donald Trump, in Alask CNN.
Russia has also demanded that Ukraine Ceda Crimea, that Russia was illegally annexed in 2014, and that it accepts not ever joining NATO.
In return, Putin said he would be willing to freeze the current front lines in the rest of Ukraine, Trump told European leaders.
Trump had given Russia on August 8 to agree on a high fire in Ukraine, which would not happen would imply new sanctions. But, neither thing happened CNNwhich underlines how from the summit in Alaska events seem to have taken a turn in favor of Russia.
Trump has just commented on the issue in his social network, and said: “I know exactly what I do and I don’t need the advice of those who have been working on all these conflicts for years and they could never do anything to stop them.”
Footnote
Meanwhile, Russian anti -aircraft defenses demolished 23 Ukrainian drones last night on six regions of the country and the annexed Crimea Peninsula, according to Russia’s Ministry of Defense in its Telegram channel.
On the other hand, the Russian authorities raised twenty dead already wounded by the explosion that occurred last Friday in a workshop that manufactured weapons and ammunition in the Russian region of Riazán, southeast of Moscow.
“Last night the Russian attacks against our cities continued: among the dead were two children and dozens of people were injured. People simply slept when the Russian army launched attacks against cities,” said Ukrainian President today.
