{"id":1903,"date":"2025-08-19T00:06:18","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T00:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/?p=1903"},"modified":"2025-08-22T13:54:30","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T13:54:30","slug":"zelensky-hails-best-meeting-with-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/19\/zelensky-hails-best-meeting-with-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelensky hails \u2018best\u2019 meeting with Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The leaders of the US and Ukraine discussed possible security guarantees and the path to peace with Russia on Monday<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"113\" data-end=\"413\">Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky has hailed Monday\u2019s negotiations with US President Donald Trump as the best meeting the two have had.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"556\" data-end=\"783\">Zelensky met with Trump at the White House, alongside several leaders from Western Europe. The summit came three days after the US president held his first face-to-face meeting since 2019 with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Alaska.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"785\" data-end=\"936\">Although no breakthroughs were announced, the parties described the discussions as a positive step toward achieving peace between Ukraine and Russia.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"938\" data-end=\"1112\"><em>\u201cI would like to thank President Trump for this meeting. It was the best meeting we have had, which is very important,\u201d<\/em> Zelensky told reporters outside the White House.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"79\" data-end=\"350\">Zelensky said he had briefed US officials on the battlefield situation, outlining <em>\u201cwho really controls each area.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"79\" data-end=\"350\">\n<blockquote><p>\n        <span><strong>Read more<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<figure>\n            <img src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"RT\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/68a3a83c85f5404fdf029e4e.jpeg\"><figcaption><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/623257-trump-comments-meeting-call\/\">Trump comments on potential Ukraine talks breakthrough<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p data-start=\"79\" data-end=\"350\"><em>\u201cOur main goal is a strong, lasting peace for Ukraine and Europe,\u201d<\/em> he added. Zelensky confirmed that he is ready for a potential meeting with Putin.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"352\" data-end=\"506\">Hours earlier, Trump spoke by phone with the Russian president and said he would work to arrange a Putin-Zelensky meeting, followed by a trilateral summit.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"352\" data-end=\"506\">Putin has previously said he is ready to meet the Ukrainian leader once the peace terms are prepared for signing.<\/p>\n<p>Russia has maintained that it favors a lasting peace rather than a temporary ceasefire and has stressed that Ukraine must renounce its claim to newly acquired Russian territories, as well as abandon its plans to join NATO.<\/p>\n<p>Zelensky confirmed that potential land swaps were discussed during negotiations in Washington but reiterated that Kiev would not willingly cede any territory or recognize Russia\u2019s new borders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The leaders of the US and Ukraine discussed possible security guarantees and the path to peace with Russia on Monday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1905,"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\/1903"}],"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=1903"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1907,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1903\/revisions\/1907"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}