What came out of the historic meeting of European leaders at the White House: Trump is working toward a “trilateral” meeting with Zelensky and Putin

The White House released some images of the talks between Trump and Zelensky with European leaders.

With the diplomatic day now over, the Ukrainian president posted a message on his social media accounts.

"We appreciate the important signal from the United States regarding its readiness to support and be part of these guarantees. A lot of attention today was given to the return of our children, to the release of prisoners of war and civilians held by Russia. We agreed to work on this. The U.S. President also supported a meeting at the level of leaders. Such a meeting is necessary to resolve sensitive issues," wrote the President of Ukraine.
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​“I thank President Trump for the invitation and for today’s special format of our meeting. (...) Today was an important step, a demonstration of genuine unity between Europe and the United States. The leaders personally came to support Ukraine and to discuss everything that will bring us closer to real peace, to a reliable security architecture that will protect Ukraine and all of Europe. We continue our work, coordinating our steps with all allies who strive to end this war with dignity. I thank everyone who is helping,” he added.

Through his Truth Social account, the president thanked the European leaders who attended the White House: "During the meeting we discussed Security Guarantees for Ukraine, which Guarantees would be provided by the various European Countries, with a coordination with the United States of America. Everyone is very happy about the possibility of PEACE for Russia/Ukraine."
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​He also confirmed preparations for a meeting between Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky, which will lead to a meeting in which he will also participate.
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​"At the conclusion of the meetings, I called President Putin, and began the arrangements for a meeting, at a location to be determined, between President Putin and President Zelenskyy. After that meeting takes place, we will have a Trilat, which would be the two Presidents, plus myself. Again, this was a very good, early step for a War that has been going on for almost four years. Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and Special Envoy Steve Witkoff, are coordinating with Russia and Ukraine," he added.

According to a document accessed by the aforementioned media outlet, and with financing from Europe, Ukraine would agree to purchase $100 billion worth of weapons from the United States. The agreement would serve to obtain security guarantees from the United States.

As he had anticipated in the Oval Office, the president spoke by phone with Vladimir Putin after his one-on-one meeting with the president of Ukraine.

European leaders seated at a table around and under the attentive listening of President Donald Trump point out their points of view and thank the Republican for this meeting.
For his part, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz noted: "This is extremely helpful that we are meeting and hearing that the two of you are having such a good meeting today. The path is open. You opened it last Friday — but now the way is open for complicated negotiations."

For her part, the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, noted: "We had a fantastic NATO Summit... We had the largest trade deal ever — agreed. And now, we are here to work together with you on a... lasting peace for Ukraine. Stop the killing. This is really our common interest."

The prime minister of Italy, Giorgia Meloni, noted: "It is an important day — a new phase — after three years that we didn't see any kind of sign from the Russian side that they were willing for dialogue, so something is changing — something has changed — thanks to you."

For his part, French President Emmanuel Macron, thanked Trump and noted that everyone at the table was in favor of peace: "Thank you, Mr. President, for organizing this meeting and for your commitment... everybody around this table is in favor of peace... this is why the idea of a trilateral meeting is very important because this is the only way to fix it."

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer: "I think today will be seen as a very important day in recent years in relation to a conflict which has gone on for three and a bit years, and so far nobody has been able to bring it to this point — so I thank you for that."

Mark Rutte, noted: "I really want to thank you, President of the United States, dear Donald, for the fact that you, as I said before, broke the deadlock basically with President Putin by starting the dialogue ... From there, here we are today."

Trump holds multilateral meeting and points out: "We've had a very successful day thus far... We're all working for the same goal. We want to stop the killing, get this settled."

President Donald Trump appeared before the cameras at the White House alongside Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and European leaders. They stood silently in a row and posed for a photo.
Trump stood in the center, flanked by Zelensky and French President Emmanuel Macron. The leaders have now gathered for a multilateral meeting in the East Room.

U.S. President Donald Trump reiterated that he does not consider a ceasefire necessary to end the war between Russia and Ukraine.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky thanked his U.S. counterpart Donald Trump for his personal efforts to end the war in Ukraine.

U.S. President Donald Trump said that if his meeting with his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky goes well, he hoped to hold a trilateral meeting with Russian leader Vladimir Putin aimed at ending the Ukraine-Russia war.

President Donald Trump assured that he wants to put an end to the war in Ukraine. In that sense, he maintained that "Vladimir Putin wants to see it ended." In addition, he insisted that he wants the peace to be lasting.

"We're going to work with Ukraine, we're going to work with everybody, and we're going to make sure that if there's peace, that peace is going to stay long-term ... We're not talking about a two-year peace and then we end up in this mess again," Trump said.

President Trump welcomed Zelensky at the White House. On social media, images were posted of the arrival of the Ukrainian leader to the meeting with the U.S. president.

The latest leaders to enter through the South Portico include French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and Finnish President Alexander Stubb.

Meanwhile, the Ukrainian president shared a video on X earlier in the day of him greeting several European and NATO leaders at the Ukrainian embassy in Washington.

The Ukrainian president met with the special envoy for Ukraine and Russia, Keith Kellogg, ahead of the talks at the White House.

President Donald Trump is scheduled to meet with the Ukrainian president at the White House. Ahead of the meeting, Zelensky argued that "Russia can only be forced into peace through strength, and President Trump has that strength."