• Trump will meet Putin: US President Donald Trump said he will sit down with Russian leader Vladimir Putin next Friday in Alaska.
• Zelensky defiant: Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky says his country “will not give land to the occupier” after Trump said there could be some “swapping of territories” to end the war in Ukraine.
• UK meeting: US Vice President JD Vance and the UK’s Foreign Minister David Lammy hosted a summit today in Britain with Ukrainian and European allies, which a US official said “produced significant progress.” Zelensky called the meeting “constructive,” but said that “the path to peace for Ukraine must be determined together and only together with Ukraine.”
• What’s in the plan: European leaders have been scrambling this week to gain a better read on what Putin told Trump’s foreign envoy Steve Witkoff during talks in Moscow. The way the Europeans understand it, the plan put forward by Putin would give Russia control of Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region.
The Chevening House where David Lammy, JD Vance, Andriy Yermak and representatives from France, Germany, Italy, Finland, and Poland met for talks today.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said talks between Ukrainian officials, US Vice President JD Vance, and their UK and European counterparts today were “constructive.”
“We conveyed all our messages. Our arguments are being heard. The dangers are being taken into account,” Zelensky said during his nightly address to the nation.
Hosted by British Foreign Secretary David Lammy and Vance at Chevening House in Kent, England, Ukraine was represented by Andriy Yermak, Zelensky’s chief of staff, while security representatives from France, Germany, Italy, Finland, and Poland were also in attendance, according to the Ukrainian president.
“The path to peace for Ukraine must be determined together and only together with Ukraine; this is fundamental,” Zelensky added.
The comments come as a US official said the meeting “produced significant progress toward President Trump’s goal of bringing an end to the war in Ukraine.”
Credit: CNN.com
