Trump urges Putin to arrange the following steps in peace talks

President Donald Trump said he was talking to the Russian President Vladimir Putin On Monday, after meeting with the President of Ukrainian Volodimir Zelensky and European leaders in the White House, to start coordinating the next steps in the peace process aimed at ending the war in Ukraine.

President posted on his own The truth is social The platform said on Monday night that he called Putin at the end of the meetings to start an “meeting agreement” between the President of Russia and his Ukrainian counterpart. Trump’s call to Putin reflected his decision to call Zelensky next On Friday, the Alaska summit with Putin.

“At the end of the meetings, I called President Putin and began agreements on the meeting, at a place to determine between President Putin and President Zelensky,” Trump confirmed after the media report.

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Trump coordinates Putin-Zelensky, talks after the White House meetings on Monday, August 18, 2025. (Getti Image)

The president added that after the meeting between the two warring presidents there was also a trilateral meeting with the United States.

“Once this meeting takes place, we will have a trilot, which would be two presidents as well as I,” the president continued. “Again, it was a very good, early step for the war that has been going on for almost four years.”

Yuri Ushakov, Chief Assistant to Russian President Vladimir Putin, said Trump and Putin have been “open and very constructive” by phone about 40 minutes, reports, reports, reports Cnn.

Putin “expressed support for direct negotiations between the delegations of Russia and Ukraine,” Ushakov reports.

President Donald Trump said he was working on the Russian President Vladimir Putin’s brokerage and President of Ukrainian Aladimir Zelensky after peace talks in Washington, Colombia District, with European leaders. (Reuters)

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Officials are reportedly familiar with the talks on Monday White House. Meanwhile, one of these leaders, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, said Putin agreed to meet with Trump with Zelensky in two weeks.

Earlier on this day, Trump was caught in a hot minibus that told the French president Emmanuel Macron What Putin wants to find a resolution to bring the war in Ukraine to the end.

President Donald Trump is sitting next to French President Emmanuel Macron during a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodzimir Zelensky and other European leaders at the White House on August 18, 2025 in Washington, DC (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

“I think (Putin) wants to make a deal,” Trump Macron whispered in the east room when they were preparing for talks on Monday. “I think he wants to conclude a deal for me, you understand it? Just as insanely as it sounds.”

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After the negotiations on Monday, Zelensky thanked Trump and all the other leaders present at the DC for his work in an attempt to bring peace to his country, noting that the negotiations were “long and detail”.

“Important negotiations have taken place in Washington today. We discussed a lot of issues with President Trump. It was a long and detailed conversation, including discussions about the situation on the battlefield and our steps to approach peace,” Zelensky said, A. Message on x On Monday night.

“We evaluate the important signal of the United States regarding its readiness to support and be part of these guarantees. A lot of attention was paid to the return of our children today by releasing prisoners of war and civilians who conducted Russia. We agreed to work on it,” Zelensky continued. “The US president also supported the meeting at the level of the leaders. Such a meeting is needed to resolve sensitive issues.”

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