{"id":18561,"date":"2026-02-25T20:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T20:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/18561\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T20:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T20:22:08","slug":"zelensky-and-trump-talk-before-us-ukraine-talks-in-geneva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/18561\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelensky and Trump talk before US-Ukraine talks in Geneva"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" alt=\"Zelensky and Trump talk before US-Ukraine talks in Geneva\" title=\"Zelensky and Trump talk before US-Ukraine talks in Geneva\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1772048474.webp.webp\" data-rjs=\"2\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 AFP PHOTO \/ UKRAINIAN PRESIDENTIAL PRESS SERVICE<\/p>\n<p> Ukrainian presidential adviser Dmytro Lytvyn reported that President Volodymyr Zelensky had a phone conversation with his American counterpart, Donald Trump, on February 25. <\/p>\n<p>The two leaders spoke a day before Ukraine&#8217;s National Security and Defense Council Secretary Rustem Umerov\u00a0is set to meet\u00a0U.S. Special Envoy\u00a0Steve Witkoff\u00a0and Trump&#8217;s adviser Jared Kushner in Geneva on Feb. 26, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News.Az<\/a> reports, citing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">foreign media.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>They are expected to discuss a &#8220;prosperity package&#8221; to help <a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/news\/ukraine-unveils-new-defense-tactic-to-counter-russia-threat\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ukraine&#8217;s<\/a> economic recovery and preparations for a potential trilateral meeting with Russia in March.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News.Az<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"by-user\" href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/journalists\/ulviyya-salmanli\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">By Ulviyya Salmanli<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a9 AFP PHOTO \/ UKRAINIAN PRESIDENTIAL PRESS SERVICE Ukrainian presidential adviser Dmytro Lytvyn reported that President Volodymyr Zelensky&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18562,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[65,1963,135,714,5499],"class_list":{"0":"post-18561","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-geneva","8":"tag-geneva","9":"tag-trump","10":"tag-ukraine","11":"tag-us","12":"tag-zelenskyy"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}