{"id":1688,"date":"2025-08-10T08:48:05","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T08:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/?p=1688"},"modified":"2025-08-15T14:01:23","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T14:01:23","slug":"zelensky-not-invited-to-putin-trump-summit-wapo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/10\/zelensky-not-invited-to-putin-trump-summit-wapo\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelensky not invited to Putin-Trump summit \u2013 WaPo"},"content":{"rendered":"

US officials say the politician\u2019s participation in the Alaska meeting remains possible but is not a priority<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ukraine\u2019s Vladimir Zelensky has not been invited to attend next week\u2019s summit between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart Donald Trump in the US, the Washington Post has reported, citing an official briefed on the negotiations.<\/p>\n

On Friday, Trump announced he would meet Putin on August 15 in Alaska. In the hours after the announcement, several outlets reported that Zelensky might take part in some form, with a senior White House official telling CBS News the planning was \u201cstill fluid\u201d<\/em> and that Zelensky could be involved.\u00a0<\/p>\n

However, the Washington Post has reported that no invitation has been extended to Zelensky so far. Reuters has also said, citing sources, that the White House is still considering inviting him, but is currently focused on organizing a bilateral meeting, at Russia\u2019s request.<\/p>\n

CNN sources, however, said that the Trump administration hasn\u2019t ruled out Zelensky being in Alaska during the summit. One White House official also told CNN that \u201canything involving Zelensky\u201d<\/em> would likely take place after the Trump-Putin meeting.<\/p>\n

Putin has said he will not rule out a meeting with Zelensky, but the Kremlin has stressed that the conditions for such talks have not been met.<\/p>\n

Trump has suggested that upcoming negotiations could involve \u201csome swapping of territories to the betterment of both.\u201d<\/em> However, on Saturday, Zelensky rejected any land-swap proposals, citing limitations imposed by Ukraine\u2019s constitution.<\/p>\n

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The Washington Post has noted that, given the strained relationship between Trump and Zelensky after their tense Oval Office meeting earlier this year, Zelensky\u2019s refusal to consider territorial concessions could risk potential blowback from Trump, who has previously described him as difficult to negotiate with.<\/p>\n

Russian officials have repeatedly said that any peace deal must address the root causes of the conflict and reflect the realities on the ground, including the status of Crimea as well as the Donetsk, Lugansk, Zaporozhye and Kherson regions, which joined Russia after referendums in 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

US officials say the politician\u2019s participation in the Alaska meeting remains possible but is not a priority Ukraine\u2019s Vladimir Zelensky […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1694,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1688"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1688"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1695,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1688\/revisions\/1695"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}