Nick Harper: Feature Story News US Correspondent on Trump and Zelensky meeting at the White House

A reasonable chance of the Russia-Ukraine war ending if a trilateral meeting with both country's leaders occurs.

This comes from Donald Trump ahead of today's big meeting at the White House.

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has arrived, along with several European leaders. 

Russia's President Vladimir Putin met with Trump on Saturday, and Trump says he'll have a phone call with him after today's talks. 

Trump says the whole world is tired of the war, and they’re going to get it ended.

Feature Story News US Correspondent Nick Harper shares the latest. 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
So to the White House we go. This is sitting
on the sofa Zelensky and Trump to get so far,
all smiles, no shouting. Trump sees he will call Puttin
after the meeting. The European leaders will join later joining us.
Nick harp A ficture story news correspondent in Washington, Good morning, Good.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
Morning, Ryan.

Speaker 1 (00:17):
So what's so far so good?

Speaker 2 (00:20):
Well, yeah, so far so good. I mean, the wheels
didn't come off in the way they certainly did in
that February meeting where they were shouting at each other
where the Ukrainian delegation was ejected from the White House early.
They managed to get through that meeting in Theory. They
go behind closed doors. There could be some tension there,
but so far it all seems to be going quite well.

Speaker 1 (00:40):
What's he said about if they mentioned territory? Have they
mentioned another meeting?

Speaker 2 (00:45):
Well, I think that is what's going to get hashed
out later on, first of all between Donald Trump and
President Zelenski, and then that multilateral meeting in Theory in
about an hour and ten minutes time with the Europeans.
At one point, Zelenski was asked to readily in the
Oval Office just a moment ago by a reporter, are
you going to redraw the map? He dodged that question.

(01:06):
He said, we need to stop the war instead, and
he said he hoped that American and EU partners could
help with that. But I think territory is going to
be a very important part of today. Donald Trump now
seems to be pushing President Putin's idea that Ukraine, as
well as giving up Crimea that was annexed back in
twenty fourteen by Moscow, also gives up the entirety of

(01:26):
the Dnetsk region, even though Russia hasn't captured all of
that during this three and a half year conflict.

Speaker 1 (01:33):
What about a security guarantee from America? Did Trump give
an any hence.

Speaker 2 (01:39):
Yeah, this is a big one. Because Ukraine wants to
join NATO. Trump and Putin say quite simply he can't.
That's not something that's going to happen. But there is
this suggestion, both from Donald Trump and the Europeans that
he might get security guarantees like the same thing that
NATO members get Article five. So if Ukraine were to
be attacked in the future, the other native members would

(02:00):
be standing by ready to defend. But also we heard
in that meeting just now, Donald Trump said that he
did want to be a part of future security guarantees.
Unclear what that might mean, would the US troops stationed
in Ukraine, for example. So far obviously that is a
redline for President Putin, but Donald Trump saying that he
wants to be involved. I guess that's another thing they're

(02:22):
just going to have to hash out today.

Speaker 1 (02:24):
Yeah, absolutely all right, Nick, We'll wait and saying Nick Harp,
a Future Story news correspondent in Washington for US This Morning.

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