The summit in Alaska did not produce any tangible results with regard to a quick peace solution to the war in Ukraine. Trump had also repeatedly brought up a three-way meeting between Putin, Zelensky and Trump – but that hasn’t happened yet.
When asked whether Trump still believes he can bring Putin and Zelensky to the table, his spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said: “I think he thinks it’s possible.” The first step is to plan the meeting with Rubio and the Russian side and prepare for the meeting in Budapest.
After the Alaska summit, when asked by journalists, Leavitt said that Putin had agreed to a meeting with Zelensky. This time she expressed herself more cautiously: the Kremlin chief had agreed to a meeting with Trump, she said. When asked what would have to happen so that Putin would be willing to talk to Zelensky, she replied: “I don’t want to go into that.”
