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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt will brief the media around 1:00 p.m. on Tuesday after two huge diplomatic meetings between Trump and Putin on Friday and Trump, Zelensky, and EU leaders on Monday.
President Donald Trump hosted several European leaders at the White House on Monday, Aug. 18, to discuss Ukraine's security amid Russia's ongoing invasion. Days before Trump's meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy,
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Amazon S3 on MSNWhite House Summit Ends in Bitter Deadlock | Trump Pushes Arms Sales, Putin Escalates with Attacks
The high-stakes White House summit between Donald Trump, Volodymyr Zelensky, and EU leaders has ended in deadlock. Trump pushed a radical shift from Biden’s massive aid packages to direct U.S. weapons sales via EU partners,
Donald Trump welcomed the leaders of Ukraine and several European allies to the White House on Monday after his summit with Vladimir Putin in Alaska last week. Trump says he's now coordinating a meeting between Putin and Zelenskyy - but will Putin actually follow through?
Ukrainian President Zelenskyy is headed to the White House today along with other European leaders to meet with President Trump after his summit on Friday with Russia President Putin. NBC News' Yamiche Alcindor and Matt Bodner report the latest.
President Donald Trump, wrapping up a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and European leaders, said he believed they'd know soon if this conflict can be brought to a close.
American officials quickly discovered a major snag in planning for the summit: summertime is peak tourist season in Alaska, and options both available and equipped to host the two world leaders were severely limited.
On Aug. 18, 2025, Trump met European, EU and NATO leaders at the White House to discuss the ongoing war in Ukraine.
RUSSIA-UKRAINE BILATERAL: President Donald Trump announced yesterday that Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy would hold a bilateral meeting in the coming days. That would be followed by a trilateral meeting with Trump and those two leaders. Trump held a summit with Putin in Alaska on Friday.