Washington (dpa-Afx)-US President Donald Trump will have a bilateral conversation with the Ukrainian President Wolodymyr Selenskyj in the Oval Office. According to its own, the White House plans to meet this bilateral meeting a little later in a larger group with top European politicians.
After his meeting on Friday with Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin In Alaska, which he had brought back to the world stage after long isolation in the west, Trump welcomes Selenskyj in Washington this Monday (local time). This is accompanied by European heads of government and top politicians. Among them are Federal Chancellor Friedrich Merz (CDU), EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and NATO General Secretary Mark Rutte.
The US President pursues the plan to bring Putin and Selenskyj directly to a table. Trump’s meeting with the Ukrainian president could – if it goes well – be the decisive intermediate step. The aim is to end the end of the Russian attack war, to end killing. Trump sees himself in the role of the intermediary.
Memory of a scandal
The fact that there is now another conversation between Trump and Selenskyj in the Oval Office, evokes memories of an unprecedented scandal in February. The US President and his Vice JD Vance Selenskyj had risen from running cameras – he then left Washington prematurely.
After that there was another approach. A photo of Trump and Selenskyj, on which it was seen in April in the Vatican on the edge of the Papst mourning celebration, became known./rin/dp/stk