Zelenskyy, Trump, and Macron meet on sidelines of G7 summit – media
The presidents of Ukraine, the US, and France held a trilateral meeting during the G7 summit in France. This is the first in-person meeting between Zelenskyy and Trump in nearly four months.
On June 16, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, US President Donald Trump, and French President Emmanuel Macron held a trilateral meeting on the sidelines of the G7 summit in France. This was the first in-person meeting between Zelenskyy and Trump in almost four months.
After the trilateral meeting, the three presidents joined a joint working session with other G7 leaders, where the central topic was Russia's war against Ukraine. According to Western media, other leaders had to wait nearly an hour before Zelenskyy, Macron, and Trump entered the hall.
The meeting took place amid intensified pressure from Kyiv on Moscow to hold direct talks between Putin and Zelenskyy. US-mediated peace talks have been effectively frozen since February, as Washington's attention shifted to the war with Iran.
Earlier, as reported by The Guardian, Macron held a short bilateral meeting with Zelenskyy and asked whether he had a bilateral meeting with Trump, then offered to arrange it. Trump, upon arriving in France for the G7 summit, stated that Zelenskyy and Putin are "open to do something" to end the war in Ukraine.
