From Alaska to Washington : Trump at Center of Russia-Ukraine Peace Efforts.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky backed by the power packed delegation of seven European leaders, traveled to the White House on Monday to discuss possible terms for a Russia-Ukraine peace deal with U.S. President Donald Trump, following Trump’s meeting in Alaska last week with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

After delivering thanks to the American President for his peace initiatives, Zelensky reiterated, alongside Trump in the Oval office, “We need to stop this war, to stop Russia, and we need support from American and European partners”. Zelensky later called Monday’s meetings “constructive” and heralded “big unity” at the table. During the press conference with Zelensky by his side, Trump has reaffirmed that:

• It was the most corrupt Joe Biden (whom Trump lambasted as most intelligent), whose foreign policies is the root cause of the suffering of the Ukrainian’s and Zelensky.

• He has negotiated the Indo Pak war which resulted in a halt within 04 days.

• Water marked paper ballots are quinossential while conducting elections, as EVM causes mass scale frauds.

Following the joint press addressal, both the President had joined the extra ordinary European delegation, where several notable conditions for ending the years long war were discussed. Among those, all nine leaders in attendance stressed the importance of holding a trilateral summit with Zelensky, Trump, and Putin, though French President Emmanuel Macron added that a quadrilateral meeting that also included the Europeans would likely be necessary as a follow-up. Trump suggested that a trilateral meeting could take place in the next week or so, though Moscow has not publicly agreed to this format.

Trump also expressed an openness in potentially providing Ukraine with the United States security guarantees as part of a final peace deal, which has remained a long request of Kyiv and its European partners, who have argued that such protections are needed to ensure a lasting peace both within Ukraine and in Europe at large. Trump said that Putin had agreed during their summit in Alaska last week to allow Ukraine to have some security guarantees.

It is unclear what these guarantees may look like; however, several European leaders referred to them as “Article 5” in style (in reference to NATO’s mutual defence clause), and Macron stressed that they must allow for a “credible Ukrainian army for the years and decades to come” and a fair defence burden-sharing between the United States and Europe. When asked if he would be willing to send U.S. troops to help provide security for Ukraine, Trump did not rule it out.

But in a statement on Monday, Moscow vehemently condemned the idea of NATO troops in Ukraine. “We reaffirm our repeatedly stated position on our categorical rejection of any scenarios that envisage the appearance in Ukraine of a military contingent with the participation of NATO countries”, a Russian Foreign Ministry’s spokesperson stated. Putin has demanded that Ukraine abandon all NATO membership ambitions, and even Trump recently suggested that Kyiv must be prepared to do so to end the war.

Such a concession is just one of many points of contention between Trump and team Europe. Zelensky and his European allies remain adamant that a cease-fire must first be secured before peace talks can be held. However, Putin has insisted that negotiations can occur without a truce deal, and Trump appears convinced.

“I don’t think you need a cease-fire. I’d like them to stop fighting, but strategically, that could be a disadvantage for one side or the other”. That disadvantage would likely be for Russia, which has secured several battlefield victories in recent weeks and maintains control of roughly one -fifth of Ukrainian territory. Halting the fighting would allow Ukraine to rebuild its military infrastructure, rest its beleaguered forces, and prepare for future Russian attacks.

Still, the Monday’s historic summit focused largely on areas of agreement instead of remaining disputes—a starkly different tone from Trump and Zelensky’s last White House meeting in February, during which Trump berated the Ukrainian president for being ungrateful.

“Ultimately, this is a decision that can only be made by President Zelensky and by the people of Ukraine, working also together in agreement with President Putin”, Trump said on Monday, referring to a possible peace deal. “And I just think that very good things are going come of it”.

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