Trump, who has been seeking to broker an end to the war since he took office in January, used the meetings - and particularly the summit with Putin, the first by a US president in more than four years - to press for a face-to-face meeting between Putin and Zelenskyy, who have not met in person since 2019. Zelenskyy again confirmed that Ukraine is ready for "negotiations in the format of leaders in order to resolve key issues" and stressed that "there should be the same readiness in Moscow," his office said in a statement after Zelenskyy met Keith Kellogg, Trump's special envoy for Ukraine, on August 25.. In his remarks to NBC, Lavrov also claimed that comments from Europeans following the Alaska summit and at the gathering in Washington on August 18 indicated that "they don't want peace," and raised objections to plans that Ukraine's Western backers are trying to hammer out for security guarantees for Kyiv in the event of a peace deal.
Author: John Pike
Published at: 2025-08-25 22:28:45
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