President Trump sat down with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for roughly 30 minutes at the G-7 summit in Évian-les-Bains, France on June 16, marking their first face-to-face meeting in over four months. When reporters asked about the conflict, Trump offered a blunt geographic assessment: it “has no impact on us” because the US is “thousands of miles away.”
Bitcoin nudged higher in the hours following the summit proceedings.
What happened at the summit
The bilateral meeting was embedded within a broader G-7 working session focused on global security and Middle East developments. Trump urged Russia to “make a deal” on the conflict, acknowledging the human cost of a war now entering its fifth year since the full-scale invasion launched in February 2022.
Trump indicated the US could soon allow waivers on Russian oil sanctions to lapse, contingent on the stabilization of energy markets following a recent US-Iran deal.
