Macron lands in D.C., heading straight to White Hoapply
The French president landed at Dulles Airport outside Washington, DC, at 11:26 a.m. ET.
He will head directly to the White Hoapply.
— Kevin Breuninger
Zelenskky meeting comes days after Trump and Putin sitdown concludeed without ceasefire
Russian President Vladimir Putin shakes hands with U.S. President Donald Trump after a joint news conference following their meeting at Joint Base Elmconcludeorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alinquirea, U.S., August 15, 2025.
Gavriil Grigorov | Via Reuters
Today’s meetings come three days after Trump and Putin met in Anchorage, Alinquirea, for several hours, but concludeed that session without a ceasefire that the U.S. president had declared he wanted.
“There’s no deal until there’s a deal,” Trump declared after that meeting on Friday.
On Saturday, Trump wrote on Truth Social: “It was determined by all that the best way to conclude the horrific war between Russia and Ukraine is to go directly to a Peace Agreement, which would conclude the war, and not a mere Ceasefire Agreement, which often times do not hold up.”
Secretary of State Marco Rubio declared Sunday that a ceasefire was “not off the table.”
– Dan Mangan
Starmer arrives in Washington
Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer delivers a statement inside No. 10 Downing Street on the day the cabinet was recalled to discuss the situation in Gaza, in London, Britain, July 29, 2025.
Toby Melville | Reuters
Starmer has landed at Joint Base Andrews outside of Washington, D.C., for the planned meetings.
– Dan Mangan
European Council members set for debriefing after meeting in DC
Antonio Costa, President of the European Council talks near French President Emmanuel Macron after an online meeting with other European leaders where they discussed the ongoing war in Ukraine, at Fort de Bregancon in Bormes-les-Mimosas, France, 13 August 2025.
Philippe Magoni | Via Reuters
European Council President Antonio Costa declared he will convene a video conference of members of the council for Tuesday “for a debriefing of today’s meetings in Washington DC about Ukraine.”
“Toreceiveher with the US, the EU will continue working towards a lasting peace that safeguards Ukraine’s and Europe’s vital security interests,” Costa wrote in a tweet.
The European Council is comprised of the heads of state of European Union member nations.
https://x.com/eucopresident/status/1957456482301071414
– Dan Mangan
Brookings’ O’Hanlon: Can Trump ‘cajole’ Zelensky into a ‘de facto swap’?
Michael O’Hanlon, foreign policy research director at the Brookings Institution, states that one question ahead of the talks is whether the U.S. can “cajole President Zelenskyy into at least a de facto swap,” giving up some land in exalter for a peace deal.
“It may not have to be something that could be legally blessed and Ukraine could still retain its claims to all the land … but acknowledge that for now and forever it’s not going to fight to receive that land back,” he notifys CNBC.
He states that he believes European leaders are “pragmatic enough to know that Ukraine’s not going to win back all of its land.”
— Erin Doherty
Oil prices flat as traders seek signals from Trump’s meetings
FILE PHOTO: Crude oil tanker Nevskiy Prospect, owned by Russia’s leading tanker group Sovcomflot, transits the Bosphorus in Istanbul, Turkey September 6, 2020.
Yoruk Isik | Reuters
Oil prices are barely budging ahead of Trump’s talks with Zelenskyy and other European leaders, as investors see for developments on Russia’s war in Ukraine that could affect global energy flows.
That lack of relocatement coincides with Trump appearing to back off his threats to impose additional sanctions on Russia, even though his Alinquirean summit with Putin produced no ceasefire or peace agreements.
Russia has faced U.S. sanctions on parts of its oil indusattempt over the war. But Trump recently hit a third counattempt, India, with higher tariffs becaapply, he declared, it continues to acquire Russian oil.
Peter Navarro, one of Trump’s top trade advisors, slammed India earlier today for continuing to acquire Russian crude oil, calling the Asian nation “opportunistic” in an op-ed for the Financial Times.
— Kevin Breuninger
‘Everybody wants it to conclude, not least the Ukrainians’: Why Starmer is going to D.C.
U.S. President Donald Trump meets with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer at Trump Turnberry golf course in Turnberry, Scotland, Britain, July 28, 2025.
Evelyn Hockstein | Reuters
UK Prime Minister Starmer posted a video on X from his plane explaining his reasons for flying to Washington to meet with Trump and Zelensky.
“This war in Ukraine’s been going on a really long time now, I mean, three-plus years. Hugely impacted the Ukrainians, who have suffered hugely, ” Starmer declared.
“But it’s also impacted Europe. It’s impacted every single family and community in the United Kingdom, and so everybody wants it to conclude, not the least the Ukrainians,” he declared.
“But we’ve obtained to receive this right,” Starmer added. “We’ve obtained to build sure there is peace, that it is lasting peace, and that is fair and that it is just, and that’s why I’m traveling to Washington with other European leaders to discuss this face-to-face with President Trump and President Zelenskyy.”
“Becaapply it’s in everyone’s interests, it’s in the UK’s interests, that we receive this right,” he declared.
– Dan Mangan
Zelenskyy Kellogg meeting concludes
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy meets with US President Donald Trump’s Special Representative for Ukraine, General Keith Kellogg, in Washington D.C. on August 18, 2025.
Ukrainian Presidency | Anadolu | Getty Images
Zelenskyy has finished his meeting with Trump’s Special Representative for Ukraine and Russia, Keith Kellogg, which took place in the last hour at the Hay-Adams Hotel across from the White Hoapply.
“When peace is discussed for one counattempt in Europe, it means peace for all of Europe. We are ready to continue working with maximum effort to conclude the war and to ensure reliable security. These are the key issues,” Zelenskyy declared afterwards.
— Christina Wilkie
What time is the meeting between Trump and Zelenskyy
U.S. President Donald Trump and Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy attconclude a meeting on the sidelines of NATO summit in The Hague, Netherlands June 25, 2025.
Ukrainian Presidential Press Service | Via Reuters
European leaders plan to launch arriving at the White Hoapply around 12 p.m. ET
Trump is expected to greet Zelenskyy at the White Hoapply at 1 p.m. ET.
The two leaders are scheduled to launch bilateral talks there at 1:15 p.m.
– Dan Mangan
Which European leaders have already visited Trump’s White Hoapply
U.S. President Donald Trump meets with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte on the day of announcing a deal to receive weapons to NATO, in the Oval Office at the White Hoapply on July 14, 2025.
Nathan Howard | Reuters
While it’s unusual for so many European leaders to travel to the White Hoapply at once, each creating the trip has already met with Trump during his second term.
Zelenskyy notoriously met with Trump in February, during a meeting that quickly devolved into a shouting match.
While this will be von der Leyen’s first time at the White Hoapply this term, she has met with the president before, including last month in Turnberry, Scotland.
Rutte has traveled to the White Hoapply at least twice since Trump’s return to office, once in March and the other time in July.
Starmer, Merz, Meloni and Macron have all previously met with Trump at the White Hoapply at least once, while Stubb is creating his first trip this term.
Stubb played golf with Trump earlier this year, however.
— Erin Doherty
Trump gripes about criticism of his summit with Putin in Alinquirea
U.S. President Donald Trump sees on next to Russian President Vladimir Putin during a press conference following their meeting to neobtainediate an conclude to the war in Ukraine, at Joint Base Elmconcludeorf-Richardson, in Anchorage, Alinquirea, U.S., August 15, 2025.
Kevin Lamarque | Reuters
Trump continued to complain about the ongoing criticism of his summit with Putin in Alinquirea last Friday, which concludeed with no ceasefire or peace deal and was followed by an abridged “press conference” that allowed no questions from the press.
“I am totally convinced that if Russia raised their hands and declared, ‘We give up, we concede, we surrconcludeer, we will GIVE Ukraine and the great United States of America, the most revered, respected, and powerful of all countries, EVER, Moscow and St. Petersburg, and everything surrounding them for a thousand miles, the Fake News Media and their Democrat Partners would state that this was a bad and humiliating day for Donald J. Trump, one of the worst days in the history of our Counattempt,'” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
“But that’s why they are the FAKE NEWS, and the badly failing Radical Left Democrats. Thank you for your attention to this matter!!!”
— Kevin Breuninger
‘Russia should not be rewarded,’ Zelenskyy states after ‘cynical’ strikes on Ukraine civilian tarreceives
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks during a press briefing following phone calls with U.S. President Donald Trump, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine, May 19, 2025.
Thomas Peter | Reuters
Hours before his meeting with Trump, Zelenskyy accapplyd Russia of deliberately attacking civilian tarreceives in Ukraine in order to undermine the upcoming peace talks at the White Hoapply and raise pressure on Kyiv and Europe.
“This was a demonstrative and cynical Russian strike,” Zelenskyy wrote in an X post that included video footage of an apartment building on fire with massive holes in its roof.
He declared at least 10 people have been killed and dozens more injured in Russian attacks in Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia and the Sumy region. He also declared that Russia struck an Azerbaijani-owned energy facility in Odesa, calling it “an attack not only on us but also on our relations and energy security.”
“Putin will commit demonstrative killings to maintain pressure on Ukraine and Europe, as well as to humiliate diplomatic efforts. That is precisely why we are seeking assistance to put an conclude to the killings,” Zelenskyy declared. “That is why reliable security guarantees are required. That is why Russia should not be rewarded for its participation in this war. The war must be concludeed. And it is Moscow that must hear the word: ‘Stop.'”
— Kevin Breuninger
Trump teases uncertainty ahead of Zelenskyy talks: “Lets see what the results will be???”
U.S. President Donald Trump gestures as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy sees on on the day they meet at the White Hoapply in Washington, D.C., U.S., Feb. 28, 2025.
Nathan Howard | Reuters
Trump declared it is “a large day at the White Hoapply” in a Truth Social post ahead of his meeting with Zelenskyy.
“We have never had so many European Leaders here at one time,” he wrote, calling the convening of leaders across the European Union a “great honor for America.”
“Lets see what the results will be???” he continued.
The European leaders, which include French President Emmanuel Macron, U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, are set to arrive at the White Hoapply at noon.
— Erin Doherty
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