BERLIN – Kyiv is willing to discuss territorial issues with Russia, amid new “hope for movement" towards peace in Ukraine, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Wednesday.

The comments came after a digital summit of European leaders with Donald Trump, during which they discussed the US president's controversial meeting with Vladimir Putin on Russia's war in Ukraine, set to take place in Alaska on Friday.

Merz said that Europeans used the call with Trump on Wednesday to underline that "fundamental European and Ukrainian security interests must be maintained in Alaska.”

“There is hope for movement. There is hope for peace in Ukraine,” Merz said during a joint press conference with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Berlin.

Merz outlined the joint European position on the talks

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