{"id":158668,"date":"2025-08-19T15:10:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T15:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/158668\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T15:10:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T15:10:10","slug":"live-updates-trump-begins-planning-for-putin-zelenskyy-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/158668\/","title":{"rendered":"Live updates: Trump begins planning for Putin-Zelenskyy meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a> said Monday he\u2019s <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-putin-zelenskyy-russia-ukraine-war-d0ad768453210db23fe4b108f7b87135\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">begun arrangements for a face-to-face meeting<\/a> between <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/vladimir-putin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vladimir Putin<\/a> and <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/volodymyr-zelenskyy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Volodymyr Zelenskyy<\/a> to discuss a pathway to end <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/russia-ukraine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine<\/a>, while affirming that the U.S. would back European security guarantees aimed at preventing Moscow from reinvading its neighbor once the current conflict ends.<\/p>\n<p>Details of the security guarantees and Trump\u2019s efforts to arrange peace talks have continued to evolve in the hours following an extended meeting among Trump, Zelenskyy and other European leaders at the White House.<\/p>\n<p>But as they emerged from their talks, the leaders expressed guarded optimism that Trump could be finding momentum in his quest to fulfill his campaign promise of ending the grinding war.<\/p>\n<p><b>What to know about efforts to end the Russia-Ukraine war:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul class=\"rte2-style-ul\" id=\"rte-7c26fd40-79ef-11f0-81b1-ff2aae7cce8e\">\n<li><b>Trump spoke with Putin by phone: <\/b>Trump spoke with the Russian leader during his meeting with European leaders, later saying he\u2019d begun making arrangements for a meeting between Putin and Zelenskyy. Trump called it \u201ca very good, early step for a War that has been going on for almost four years.\u201d It\u2019s unclear whether Putin has fully signed on to such talks.<\/li>\n<li><b>Trepidation from Europe:<\/b> Many in Europe worry that Trump is pressing Ukraine to make concessions that will only further embolden Putin. NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said that \u201cif Russia is not playing ball\u201d on direct talks with Ukraine, \u201cthe United States plus Europe will do more when it comes to tariffs and sanctions\u201d on Moscow.<\/li>\n<li><b>\u2018NATO-like\u2019 security guarantees:<\/b> Trump stopped short of committing U.S. troops to a collective effort to bolster Ukraine\u2019s security. He said instead that there would be a \u201cNATO-like\u201d security presence and that all those details would be hashed out with EU leaders. NATO itself is underpinned by a political commitment by all member countries to come to the aid of any member whose sovereignty or territory might be under attack.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Other news we\u2019re following:<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump said Monday he\u2019s begun arrangements for a face-to-face meeting between Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelenskyy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":158669,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,69,2055,50,103],"class_list":{"0":"post-158668","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-district-of-columbia","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-government-and-politics","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115056071718600127","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}