After the Trump Whitehouse Meetings with Zelensky & EU leaders

We won’t actually know what may or may not be agreed to with certainty until some sort of agreement is actually made

Indiatoday

Interesting maps included in the article

Last Saturday, Trump hosted Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska for a summit. Details of the meeting reported in US media suggested Russia would give up only tiny pockets of occupied Ukraine in the north, while Kyiv would require to cede large parts of Ukraine’s Luhansk and Donetsk provinces in the east that Moscow has been unable to capture.

In return, Russia would freeze the front lines in the southern regions of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia and return relatively small tracts of occupied land in the northern Sumy and northeastern Kharkiv regions.

I’d suspect they’d want the entirety of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia, it seems doubtful they would freeze front lines where they are presently?

Russia holds small pockets of the Sumy and Kharkiv regions, totaling around 440 square km, according to American think tank Institute for the Study of War. Ukraine controls around 6,600 square km of Donbas, which comprises the Donetsk and Luhansk regions and is now demanded by Russia.

Media reports have also mentioned that Russia is also seeking formal recognition of Russian sovereignty over Crimea, which Moscow seized from Ukraine in 2014.

Trump is alleged to have called Putin

On Monday evening, Trump broke away from talks (?) with Volodymyr Zelensky, the leaders of Britain, Germany, France, Italy, Finland plus the top representatives of Nato and the EU, to call Putin during their multilateral summit.

It is understood they spoke for 40 minutes.

Keir Starmer hails breakthrough on Security Agreements

Sir Keir said work with the US on what the security guarantees would entail could start as soon as Tuesday.

“The two outcomes were a real significant breakthrough when it comes to security guarantees, because we’re now going to be working with the US on those security guarantees,” he told the BBC.

Trump called the talks “very good”.

“During the meeting we discussed security guarantees for Ukraine, which guarantees would be provided by the various European countries, with a co-ordination with the United States of America,” he posted on his Truth Social platform.

“Everyone is happy about the possibility of PEACE for Russia/Ukraine.

“At the conclusion of the meetings, I called president Putin and began arrangements for a meeting, at a location to be determined, between president Putin and president Zelensky.

Trump stated the meetings had concluded- while one of the previous report leaves readers with the idea that Trump left the meeting as it was ongoing to call Putin

Russian Press Service

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Against the backdrop of the genuine commitment demonstrated by the leadership of Russia and the United States in Anchorage to achieve a comprehensive, just, and sustainable resolution to the conflict surrounding Ukraine – including the eradication of its root causes – London continues to issue statements that not only clash with the efforts of Moscow and Washington but are patently designed to undermine them.

For instance, in a joint statement dated August 17, following yet another online meeting of the so-called “coalition of the willing” chaired by British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron, the participants revived a demonstrably unviable proposal to deploy Western military contingents in Ukraine should a ceasefire agreement be reached. Earlier, on August 15, British Defence Secretary John Healey explicitly declared London’s readiness to equip military personnel for deployment in Ukraine to enforce a ceasefire once it takes effect.

Britain’s role in fanning the flames of the Ukrainian conflict is well-documented. Even before the start of the special military operation, London made no secret of viewing Ukraine solely as a geopolitical instrument aimed against Russia. For years, the United Kingdom has strained to assert leadership in propping up Kiev’s puppet regime and rallying foreign aid for the Armed Forces of Ukraine. By emboldening their protégés in Kiev, the British steadfastly keep them on a Euro-Atlantic and anti-Russian trajectory, one that is ruinous for the Ukrainian people. London remains obsessed with relentlessly escalating the conflict, pushing its NATO allies towards a dangerous threshold beyond which a renewed global confrontation looms.

We reiterate our long-standing position of unequivocally rejecting any scenarios involving the deployment of NATO military contingents in Ukraine, as this risks uncontrollable escalation with unpredictable consequences. Statements to this effect by certain European nations, including Britain, lay bare their overtly provocative and predatory ambitions in the Ukrainian theatre.

Stratfor

Additional rounds of negotiation between Russia and Ukraine are likely in the coming weeks, but a comprehensive peace agreement will remain elusive as Moscow maintains maximalist demands, the United States avoids firm security commitments for Ukraine, and Kyiv resists territorial concessions absent stronger Western guarantees. On August 18, U.S. President Donald Trump met with his Ukrainian counterpart, President Volodymyr Zelensky, at the White House to discuss the war in Ukraine. After a bilateral meeting, the two presidents held a larger meeting with U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer, French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, Finnish President Alexander Stubb, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte. During this meeting, Trump said that the United States would give “lots of help” to protect Ukraine after the war, though Ukraine’s European partners would carry most of the burden. Trump said after the…

So, the coalition of the willing is still in play- With the US leading from behind (lots of help)