Several European leaders were invited to the meeting of US President Donald Trump with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Hall on Monday, a White House employee told the White House to CNN.
It is unclear which leaders will attend. THE CNN He previously reported that European authorities expect at least another European leader to join negotiations.
Trump told European authorities that he intends to organize a meeting
Trump said after the Summit in Alaska with Putin that the Russian leader wants the entire eastern region of the Ukrainian Donbass in exchange for the freezing of the front lines, according to European authorities. Trump also believes that focusing on a lasting peace agreement is the best way to end the war in Ukraine instead of starting with a ceasefire.
Understand the war in Ukraine
Russia began the large -scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 and currently has about one fifth from the territory of the neighboring country.
Still in 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin decreed the annexation of four Ukrainian regions: Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizehzia.
The Russians slowly advance through the east and Moscow gives no signs of abandoning their main war goals. Meanwhile, Donald Trump, president of the United States, pressures for a peace agreement.
Ukraine has made increasingly bold attacks within Russia and says the operations aim to destroy essential infrastructure of the Russian army.
Putin’s government, in turn, intensified air attacks, including drones offensive. Both sides deny target civilians, but thousands died in the conflict, the vast majority of them Ukrainians.
Thousands of soldiers are also believed to have died on the front line, but neither side releases numbers of military lows. The United States claim that 1.2 million people were injured or killed in the war
