Zelensky Hails 'Very Good' Talk With Trump

President Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky have wrapped up their one-on-one meeting and have moved on to a larger meeting with European leaders. How far things have progressed toward ending the Russia-Ukraine fighting remained unclear, though both leaders sounded optimistic about the next steps.

• Trump said he planned to call Vladimir Putin immediately after Monday's meetings had finished, reports the Wall Street Journal, and he seemed confident about arranging a three-way meeting with Putin, himself, and Zelensky. "We're going to try and work out a tri-lat after that and see if we can get it finished," he said, per the Washington Post.
• Zelensky, for his part, said he had a "very good conversation" with Trump about "sensitive matters including security guarantees," per the BBC.
• Trump did not answer directly when asked if the US was prepared to send troops to Ukraine as part of any security agreement. "We will give them very good protection, very good security. That's part of it," Trump said, per Axios. "We'll be involved."

• Zelensky seemed open to the idea of a three-way meeting, at one point telling reporters that the thorny issue of territorial concessions could be worked out at a face-to-face summit with the Russian leader, per the New York Times. (Putin, to be clear, has yet to agree to any such meeting.) The Times also notes that Zelensky said, "Thank you for the map, by the way," after his meeting with Trump, suggesting that the idea of land swaps had been broached.
• Though Trump again said he didn't think a ceasefire was necessary before a more permanent agreement, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz had a different view. "To be honest, we all would like to see a ceasefire, the latest from the next meeting on," he told Trump, per the BBC.