Takeaways Key from the White House Talk between Trump, Zelenskyy and EU leaders | World News

This is the key takeaway of the talks between US President Donald Trump, Ukraine leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy and other European leaders, including Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer.

Security guarantee

In an important step towards the agreement, Trump has promised that the US will be involved in providing security guarantees for Ukraine.

The US leader said that there would be several forms of security guarantees for Ukraine, but did not reveal whether this would involve US troops.

Trump said Putin “agreed that Russia would receive security guarantees for Ukraine”. He added: “I think European countries will take a lot of burden. We will help them, and we will make it very safe.”

His comments were welcomed by European leaders, with Ursula Von Der Leyen, the President of the European Commission, saying that “it is good to hear” nations of working on a “security guarantee such as a” guarantee “.

Article five NATO is the principle that an attack on one member is considered an attack on all of them.

“When we talked about security guarantees, we talked about all the security of the European continent,” said French President Emmanuel Macron.

He added that one guarantee he wanted to get out of any agreement was that Ukraine must be able to have an “credible” troop for “years and decades”.

There is no ceasefire for a peaceful agreement

Trump said there was no need for a ceasefire in Ukraine, because the peace agreement could be resolved while Ukraine and Russia fought.

“I don’t think you need a ceasefire. You know, if you see the six transactions that I have completed this year, they all fight, I don’t do a ceasefire,” he said.

“I know that it might be good to have, but I can also understand, strategically, why one country or another does not want it. You have a ceasefire and they rebuild and rebuild and rebuild and maybe they don’t want it.”

He said he liked “the concept of a ceasefire”, because people will stop being killed, but “we can do an agreement where we are working on a peaceful agreement when they fight”.

But German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said, “We all want to see a ceasefire”.

He told the media in the White House: “I can’t imagine that the next meeting will take place without a ceasefire, so let’s do it and let’s try to pressure Russia.”

Trump then pushed back, saying he did not need a ceasefire to end another war, but he would welcome one if needed.

The US leader said: “So if we can carry out a ceasefire, great, and, if we don’t do a ceasefire … many other points are given to us, many, many points are given to us, good points.”

Trilateral meeting

The US president said that “If everything goes well today”, there will be a trilateral meeting between him, Mr. Putin and Zelenskyy.

The latter said he was ready for such a meeting and Trump confirmed that Putin too.

Mr Macron said that while the trilateral meeting was important, the “rectangular” peak also needed to be done afterwards.

It is unclear whether Mr. Macron means a meeting where Just France takes part, or whether it means NATO, EU, or “coalition that is willing” must be a fourth member.

Initially, Trump said he would call Putin “right after the” meeting of the White House, but he finally disturbed the conversation with European leaders to call his Russian colleagues in the middle of the meeting, according to an European Union diplomat.

‘Discuss regional exchange’

“We also need to discuss the possibility of regional exchange,” said the US President before multilateral talks with Zelenskyy and European leaders.

He said such an exchange needs to be “considering the current contact line”.

Trump added: “That means the war zone, the current line of war, is quite clear, very sad, actually, to see them and negotiation of positions.”

This happened after Mr. Putin reportedly made a demand to control the Donetsk and East Luhanansk areas in Ukraine during the Alaska Summit with Trump as a condition for ending the war.

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Instead, Russia will submit other Ukraine territory held by its troops, according to several news reports quoting sources close to this problem.

Russian troops are currently occupying most of the two regions and, in September 2022, Moscow announced officially annexing them, along with the Kherson and Zaporizhia regions, in a step that was rejected and condemned as illegal by the West.

Zelensky had previously put aside any region to Moscow.