Updated August 16, 2025 at 6:56 AM EDT
ANCHORAGE, Alaska – President Trump said he will meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the White House on Monday to talk about how to end Russia's war on Ukraine, a follow-up meeting to Trump's summit with Russia's Vladimir Putin that failed to yield a ceasefire.
On Saturday, Trump said on social media that he had spoken with Zelenskyy and European leaders as he flew back to Washington from Alaska.
"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," Trump said in his post .
Trump's summit with Putin — thrown together just a week after it was first annou