US President Donald Trump held a lengthy phone call on Saturday morning with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and subsequently spoke to NATO leaders following Friday summit in Alaska with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Reuters news agency reported.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen was among those on the call, in which Trump briefed European leaders about the summit, von der Leyen’s spokesperson said. A NATO official said NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte also took part.
Leaders from Germany, Finland, Poland, Italy, France and Britain also joined the call, according to the European Commission.
Axios reporter Barak Ravid said, citing a source, that Trump spoke for more than an hour and a half with Zelenskiy and European leaders. Moreover, he told them that Putin doesn’t want a ceasefire, but prefers a comprehensive agreement to end the war, the source added.
Zelenskiy later said he would travel to Washington on Monday.
The highly anticipated summit in Alaska yielded no agreement to resolve or pause the war in Ukraine, although both Trump and Putin described the talks as productive before heading home.