A decisive meeting. Three days after meeting with Vladimir Putin in Alaska, Donald Trump receives his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky, as well as several European leaders, in Washington on Monday, August 18, to try to end the conflict with Russia.
While the Ukrainian president, who said in X that he wanted to end the war “quickly” but with a “lasting peace”, he arrived late on Sunday night in the United States (5h French Time), Emmanuel Macron left him the fort of Brégançon shortly after 8 am this morning. His plane took off from Toulon-Hyères airport around 9:15 am and is expected at 6 pm on the other side of the Atlantic.
The day will be articulated in several outstanding aspects. Starting with a bilateral summit between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky. The two men must be From 7 pm (1 pm local time), before establishing a quarter of an hour later, At 7:15 pmIn the oval office to speak.
It is assumed that the discussions last approximately one hour, because the first thing that will be since the clash of February 28 at the White House, where Donald Trump and his vice president JD Vance attacked the leader of Ukraine.
Europeans waited at 8:15 pm, after an hour from the Trump-Zelensky summit
From 8:15 pm (2:15 pm local time), several European representatives will be welcome on the site, if the announced program is respected. Among them, we will significantly find Emmanuel Macron, but also the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, NATO Chief Mark Rutte, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni or Finnish President Alexander Stubb will also be present.
After A theoretical passage at 8:30 pm For the traditional “family photo”, in the words used by the official communication of the US presidency, All participants will meet at 9 pm For a multilateral meeting, whose duration is not established.
The presence of Europeans must make it possible to show a form of unity behind kyiv, which has repeated to reject any territorial concession. Russia remarkably requests the total withdrawal of Ukraine in Donbass, a territory that brings together the regions of Donetsk and Lougansk.
Donald Trump estimated on Monday that Volodymyr Zelensky could end up with War with Russia “Almost immediately”, excluding that his country recovers the Crimean control, annexed by Moscow in 2014, and enters NATO.
Source: BFM TV
