The Ukrainian leader told reporters as he sat beside Trump at the start of the meeting that he had “good news” to share from the battlefield where Kyiv’s forces have been locked in fierce fighting with Russia for over three and a half years.
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Trump described his meeting with Zelenskiy as an “important” one on a busy day of talks.
He was also expected to raise how to improve Ukraine’s air defences and to set up a meeting between the leaders of Russia and Ukraine as part of Trump’s peace effort, a source in Ukraine’s delegation told Reuters ahead of the talks.
Moscow has said no such meeting is planned and that the agenda would have to be well prepared for it to happen. Kyiv has pointed to that as proof that Russia is not willing to deviate from its maximalist aims and is obstructing Trump’s efforts.
Kyiv’s hopes of winning tough new U.S. sanctions on Russia have been fading. A new pragmatism in Ukraine has made Zelenskiy’s latest talks with Trump less fraught than earlier meetings, with lessons learnt from February’s Oval Office bust-up.
That makes preserving the relationship with Trump vital for Kyiv, even though Ukrainians have been disappointed as he has reoriented policy away from the unambiguous military and diplomatic support Kyiv received from former President Joe Biden.
Trump has repeatedly threatened to impose punitive economic measures on Russia, but not followed through on them as of yet in what U.S. officials have said is an effort to give the push for peace a chance of succeeding.
Ukraine’s foreign minister said on Monday that Kyiv would be ready to integrate its battle-hardened air defence network into those of its Western neighbours to assist after NATO accused Russia of violating its airspace in Estonia and Poland.
Russia has accused the West of hysteria and denied that its jets entered Estonian airspace. - Reuters
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