Updated On: 17 August, 2025 08:51 AM IST | Kyiv | Agencies
Putin has previously said that Russia is not interested in a temporary truce, and instead is seeking a long-term settlement that takes Moscow’s interests into account

Trump declared, “Saturday’s meeting in Alaska went very well.” PIC/PTI
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will meet US President Donald Trump in Washington on Monday after Trump’s summit with Russia’s Vladimir Putin ended without an agreement to end the war in Ukraine.
Trump declared on his social media site that Friday’s meeting in Alaska “went very well.” After the summit and calls early Saturday with Zelenskyy and European leaders, he wrote: “It was determined by all that the best way to end the horrific war between Russia and Ukraine is to go directly to a Peace Agreement, which would end the war, and not a mere Ceasefire Agreement, which often times do not hold up.”

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. PIC/GETTY IMAGES