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| Our coverage of today's events are going to begin live at noon today, but we're going to spend our first hour of the Washington Journal taking your phone calls about this summit between Donald Trump and Vlodomir Zelensky, again, coming just three days after that Trump and Putin meeting. | ||
| Here's how the Wall Street Journal frames it in their lead story today. | ||
| They write, nearly six months ago, Ukrainian President Vlodymir Zelensky was asked to leave the White House after a televised confrontation with President Trump over real security guarantees the Ukrainian leader insisted were needed for a peace agreement with Russia. | ||
| When Zelensky returns to the Oval Office on Monday, the gap over security guarantees will have narrowed, but a chasm over Moscow's territorial demands remains. | ||
| That's the Wall Street Journal this morning. | ||
| President Trump last night laying down a marker, his marker, for some of the points being discussed at today's meeting. | ||
| This is what he wrote on his Truth Social page. | ||
| President Zelensky of Ukraine can end the war with Russia almost immediately, the president said, if he wants to, or he can continue to fight. | ||
| Remember how it started, the president said. | ||
| No getting back Obama-given Crimea 12 years ago without a shot being fired and no going into NATO by Ukraine. | ||
| Some things never change. | ||
| Donald Trump making those points about not going into NATO and that the war could end immediately if Zelensky wants to. | ||
| He'll be sitting down with the Ukrainian president today. | ||
| Again, that meeting will happen a little after lunchtime today. | ||
| Following that, there'll be a meeting with the European leaders. | ||
| Security guarantees a key part of this conversation. | ||
| And it was yesterday on Fox News Sunday that Steve Witkoff, the special envoy for President Trump on this ongoing conflict, spoke about the guarantees that he expects are going to be offered today. | ||
| So let's talk about the security guarantees because you mentioned those. | ||
| What does that mean in practicality? | ||
| What is the U.S. willing to commit to that effort to give Ukraine the assurances it needs to come to the table? | ||
| It means that the United States is potentially prepared to be able to give Article 5 security guarantees, but not from NATO, directly from the United States and other European countries. | ||
| That is big. | ||
| I mean, really big. | ||
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Does it mean boots on the ground? | |
| What does it mean? | ||
| But logistically. | ||
| I think part of the discussion that we're going to have on Monday throughout the day, because there's going to be breakout sessions there, is exactly the specifics of what the Ukrainians feel that they need. | ||
| Because remember, as mediators, we were at this summit to advance the Ukrainian position, and we did that. | ||
| And we did it successfully. | ||
| Now it's for us to drill down on the granular details of exactly what the Ukrainians need to give them a sense of security in the future. | ||
| And by the way, what the Europeans need as well. | ||
| And we were fully committed to be there for that purpose. | ||
| Steve Witkoff, that was yesterday morning. | ||
| This morning on the Washington Journal. | ||
| We are getting your thoughts ahead of this summit between Donald Trump and Vlodomir Zelensky. | ||
| 202-748-8001 for Republicans to call in. | ||
| Democrats 202-748-8000. | ||
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| We noted that President Trump laid down a marker on social media. | ||
| So did Volodymyr Zelensky. | ||
| This is his tweet that he posted coming into the meeting after arriving in Washington, saying that we are speaking with Donald Trump and European leaders. | ||
| I am grateful for the president for the invitation. | ||
| We all share a strong desire to end this war quickly and reliably. | ||
| And peace must be lasting. | ||
| Not like it was years ago, he said, when Ukraine was forced to give up Crimea and part of our east, part of Donbass, and Putin simply used it as a springboard for new attacks. | ||
| Or when Ukraine was given so-called security guarantees in 1994, but they didn't work. | ||
| Of course, Crimea should not have been given up, he said. | ||
| Just as Ukrainians did not give up Kyiv and Odessa and Kharkiv after 2022, Ukrainians are fighting for their land and for their independence. | ||
| Now our soldiers have had success in Donetsk and the Sumy regions. | ||
| I am confident that we will defend Ukraine effectively and guarantee security and that our people will always be grateful to President Trump, everyone in America, and every partner and ally for their support and invaluable assistance. | ||
| Russia must end this war, which it itself started. | ||
| And I hope that our joint strength with America, with our European friends, will force Russia into a real peace. |