WASHINGTON, August 17. /TASS/. US President Donald Trump expects to hold a trilateral summit meeting with Russia and Ukraine as early as August 22, US-based Axios web portal reported citing its sources.
According to the web portal, during a telephone call with Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky and European leaders after his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska on August 15, Trump announced that "he wants to organize a trilateral summit with Putin and Zelensky as early as next Friday [August 22]."
The New York Times reported earlier, citing sources, that following his meeting with Putin, the US leader proposed negotiating a peace deal under which Ukraine would give up the rest of the Donbass region to Russia, including areas not liberated by Russian troops, in a phone call with European leaders. A ceasefire in the rest of Ukraine at present-day battlefronts and security guarantees, both for Kiev and Europe, would be offered in return.
On August 15, Putin and Trump met at the Elmendorf-Richardson military base in Alaska. Their talks lasted approximately three hours, including a one-on-one conversation in the American leader’s limousine en route to the main negotiation venue, as well as a subsequent small-group discussion involving three participants on either side.
