{"id":242383,"date":"2025-09-20T21:46:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T21:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/242383\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T21:46:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T21:46:13","slug":"zelensky-says-he-will-meet-with-trump-in-nyc-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/242383\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelensky says he will meet with Trump in NYC next week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced on Saturday that he plans to <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/09\/18\/us-news\/trump-admits-putin-let-me-down-on-ukraine-peace-talks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">meet with President Trump<\/a> on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in Manhattan next week.<\/p>\n<p>Zelensky is seeking to huddle over <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/09\/09\/world-news\/ukraine-willing-to-freeze-frontlines-if-security-guarantees-are-strong-enough-us-ambassador\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">promised post-war security guarantees<\/a> that Ukrainian leader views as critical to any peace deal in the Russian conflict, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukrinform.ua\/rubric-polytics\/4038515-zelenskij-rozpoviv-pro-ocikuvanna-vid-zustrici-z-trampom-u-nujorku.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ukrainian outlet Ukrinform<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Despite a renewed diplomatic push, Russian tyrant Vladimir Putin has repeatedly rebuffed direct peace talks with Zelensky <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/09\/03\/world-news\/putin-says-zelensky-should-come-to-moscow-as-russia-unleashes-massive-attack-on-ukraine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">unless his preconditions are met<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37168311\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ukraine-president-volodymyr-zelensky-us-111503078.jpg\" alt=\"President Volodymyr Zelensky and President Donald Trump meet in the Oval Office.\" class=\"wp-image-37168311\"  \/>Zelensky is planning to meet with Trump next week in New York City. AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe expect sanctions if there is no meeting between the leaders or, for example, no ceasefire,\u201d Zelensky said in comments released by his office on Saturday, according to the AFP.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are ready for a meeting with Putin. I have spoken about this. Both bilateral and trilateral. He is not ready.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the upcoming sit-down with Trump, Zelensky\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/08\/29\/world-news\/top-zelensky-adviser-invites-trump-special-envoy-steve-witkoff-to-ukraine-after-latest-russia-attack\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">right-hand man Andriy Yermak<\/a> held a phone call Saturday with Secretary of State Marco Rubio.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37168306\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/andriy-yermak-head-office-president-110285786.jpg\" alt=\"Andriy Yermak, Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, attends telecommunications company Kyivstar's IPO at the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York City, U.S.\" class=\"wp-image-37168306\"  \/>Yermak held a phone call with Rubio Saturday ahead of the anticipated meeting next week. REUTERS<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe discussed preparations for security guarantees for Ukraine, as well as expanding cooperation in military, defense, and economic areas,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AndriyYermak\/status\/1969456073690984717?t=Q2PvZ7VBgO614xhGuJnCsA&amp;s=19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Yermak wrote on X<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The UN General Assembly is set to convene for its 80th session on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>Zelensky also told reporters in Kyiv on Friday that there would be \u201cvery likely, a meeting between the first ladies of\u00a0Ukraine\u00a0and the\u00a0United States\u00a0on the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/08\/15\/world-news\/ukraines-first-lady-demands-return-of-kidnapped-children-as-peace-terms-with-russia-are-considered\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">humanitarian issue relating to children<\/a>,\u201d according to <a href=\"https:\/\/interfax.com.ua\/news\/general\/1106153.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Interfax Ukraine<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced on Saturday that he plans to meet with President Trump on the sidelines&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":242384,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,69,33663,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,257,273,430,1206,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,65202,107],"class_list":{"0":"post-242383","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-meetings","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkcity","15":"tag-ny","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-russia","18":"tag-ukraine","19":"tag-ukraine-war","20":"tag-united-nations","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-united-states-of-america","23":"tag-unitedstates","24":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","25":"tag-us","26":"tag-usa","27":"tag-volodymyr-zelensky","28":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115238823157023540","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242383","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=242383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}