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The second Oval Office meeting in six months between U.S. President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy went off smoothly Monday, in sharp contrast to their disastrous encounter in February.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

European leaders joined the discussions<\/a> in a show of transatlantic unity, and both they and Zelenskyy repeatedly thanked Trump for his efforts to end Russia\u2019s three-year war on Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI don\u2019t want to hide the fact that I wasn\u2019t sure it would go this way,\u201d German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said in Washington. \u201cBut my expectations were not just met, they were exceeded.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zelenskyy said Tuesday: \u201cWe have taken an important step towards ending this war and ensuring security for Ukraine and all of Europe.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But despite the guarded optimism and friendly banter among the leaders, there was little concrete progress on the main obstacles to ending the war \u2014 and that deadlock likely favors Russian President Vladimir Putin, whose forces continue to make steady, if slow progress on the ground in Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPutin cannot get enough champagne or whatever he\u2019s drinking,\u201d Gabrielius Landsbergis, a former foreign minister of Lithuania, said of Monday\u2019s meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte told The Ingraham Angle on Fox News: \u201cAll the details have to be hammered out.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is a look at the issues that must be resolved:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Security guarantees for Ukraine<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

To agree to a peace deal with Russia, Ukraine wants assurances that it can deter any future attacks by the Kremlin\u2019s forces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That means, Zelenskyy says, a strong Ukrainian army that is provided with weapons and training by Western partners<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It could potentially also mean offering Ukraine a guarantee resembling NATO\u2019s collective defense mandate, which sees an attack on one member of the alliance as an attack on all. How that would work is not clear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Additionally, Kyiv\u2019s European allies are looking to set up a force that could backstop any peace agreement in Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A coalition of 30 countries, including European nations, Japan and Australia, have signed up to support the initiative, although the role that the U.S. might play in such a force is unclear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

European leaders, fearing Moscow\u2019s territorial ambitions won\u2019t stop in Ukraine, are keen to lock America\u2019s military might into the plan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump said he\u2019ll help provide protection but stopped short of committing American troops to the effort, instead promising U.S. \u201ccoordination.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Russia has repeatedly rejected the idea of such a force, saying that it will not accept NATO troops in Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron co-chaired an online meeting Tuesday of the coalition countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once officials have discussed proposals in more detail, Rutte said, a virtual meeting will take place with Trump and European leaders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Agreeing on a ceasefire<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Ukraine and its European supporters have repeatedly called for a ceasefire while peace talks are held.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Putin has balked at that prospect. With his forces inching forward in Ukraine, he has little incentive to freeze their movement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ahead of his meeting with the Russian leader last week<\/a>, Trump threatened Russia with \u201csevere consequences\u201d if it didn\u2019t accept a ceasefire. Afterward, he dropped that demand and said it was best to focus on a comprehensive peace deal \u2014 as Putin has pushed for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump said in Monday\u2019s Oval Office meeting with Zelenskyy that a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine was \u201cunnecessary.\u201d But after his closed-door meeting with European leaders and Zelenskyy, Trump told reporters that \u201call of us would obviously prefer the immediate ceasefire while we work on a lasting peace.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Where Trump ultimately falls on that issue is important because it could affect how much Ukrainian land Russia has seized by the time the two sides get around to hammering out how much it could keep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In this photo provided by Ukraine’s 65th Mechanized Brigade press service, recruits practice military skills on a training ground on a sunflower field in the Zaporizhzhia region, Ukraine, Monday, Aug. 11, 2025, (Andriy Andriyenko\/Ukraine’s 65th Mechanized Brigade via AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Occupied Ukrainian territory<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Zelenskyy and European leaders said that Putin has demanded that Ukraine give up the Donbas, an industrial region in eastern Ukraine that has seen some of the most intense fighting but that Russian forces have failed to capture completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moscow\u2019s forces also hold Crimea as well as parts of six other regions \u2014 all adding up to about one-fifth of Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zelenskyy has long noted the Ukrainian Constitution prohibits breaking up his country. He has also suggested the demand for territory would serve as a springboard for future invasion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rutte said the possibility of Ukraine ceding occupied territory to Russia in return for peace wasn\u2019t discussed in Monday\u2019s talks. That is an issue for Zelenskyy and Putin to consider together, he said to Fox News.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Putin-Zelenskyy meeting<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Zelenskyy has repeatedly suggested sitting down with Putin, even challenging the Russian leader to meet him as part of direct peace talks between the two sides in Turkey in May. Putin snubbed that offer, saying that significant progress on an agreement would have to be made before the pair met in person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Monday, Trump appeared to back Zelenskyy\u2019s plan. \u201cI called President Putin, and began the arrangements for a meeting, at a location to be determined, between President Putin and President Zelenskyy,\u201d Trump said in a social media post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said he would join the two leaders afterward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But when discussing a phone call held after the meeting between Trump and the Russian leader, Putin\u2019s foreign affairs adviser Yuri Ushakov gave no indication that either a bilateral or a trilateral meeting with Ukraine had been agreed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

European leaders know that Putin doesn\u2019t want to meet Zelenskyy and that he won\u2019t allow Western troops in Ukraine \u2014 but they\u2019re expressing optimism that these things could happen in the hopes of forcing Putin to be the one to say no to Trump, according to Janis Kluge of the German Institute for International and Security Affairs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEuropeans hype up expectations to create a reality in which Putin disappoints,\u201d he wrote on X.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Associated Press writers Sam McNeil in Brussels and Emma Burrows in London contributed.<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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