"Plans are not final": Zelensky can join by Trump and Putin's meeting - CBS News

To spread: President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky can join the meeting of US President Donald Trump with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The Ukrainian leader can take part in a "in a certain way", CBS News sources reported. "One of the high-ranking White House officials has informed CBS News that the plans for the Summit on Friday are still not final and that there is still a chance that President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy would still take part in it," the statement reads.

Journalists emphasized that the meeting of the US and Russian presidents is taking place at the time when Trump presses on Putin to conclude a ceasefire agreement with Ukraine. CBS News also noted that it would be Putin's first personal meeting with the American leader since Joe Biden met with him in Switzerland in June 2021, that is, eight months before the Russian Federation began a full -scale invasion of Ukraine.

It should be noted that Putin's assistant Yuri Ushakov confirmed that the meeting of the Russian leader and Donald Trump will take place on August 15 at Alaska "Russia and the United States - close neighbors, so it is logical that the summit of leaders will take place on Alaska," Ushakov reported to Russian propaganda. According to Ushakov, Putin and Trump will focus on discussing the options for achieving a long-term settlement of the Russian-Ukrainian war during the Alaska summit.