Trump, Zelensky, European Leaders Optimistic After White House Talks
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Trump, Zelensky, and European leaders discuss how to end the war in Ukraine. Plus, why Europe's stock markets face a crisis of inactivity.
It's not just that European markets are failing to keep the young, exciting companies. It's also that it's starting to lose some of its bigger companies, AstraZeneca, Shell, Total Energies. They've all reviewed potentially moving their listings to New York as well.
And the White House is in talks with Intel for a 10% U.S. government stake. It's Monday, August 18th. I'm Sabrina Siddiqui for The Wall Street Journal, covering for Alex Osola. This is the PM edition of What's News, the top headlines and business stories that move the world today. President Donald Trump met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House today, along with a group of top European officials on a path to end the war in Ukraine. Trump called the meeting after his summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Friday, where the Russian leader rejected a ceasefire and called on Ukraine to cede land in the country's east in exchange for a freeze in the front line elsewhere.
Trump signaled greater openness to U.S. security guarantees for any peace deal in Ukraine when asked by a reporter.
We'll let you know that maybe later today. We're meeting with seven great leaders of great countries also. And we'll be talking about that. They'll all be involved. But there'll be a lot of help. When it comes to security, there's going to be a lot of help. It's going to be good. They are first line of defense because they're there.
What did Trump, Zelensky and European leaders say at the White House meeting on ending the Ukraine war?
They're Europe. But we're going to help them out also. We'll be involved.
Lara Seligman, The Wall Street Journal's reporter covering national security in the Pentagon, joins us now with more. Lara, as we just heard, Trump did not rule out U.S. involvement in security guarantees for Ukraine. What more do we know about a possible framework with the Europeans?
So the European leaders have said that security guarantees are going to be a really important part of this moving forward. There weren't a lot of details that were given during the meeting, but the framework that has been out there is some sort of peacekeeping force perhaps along the front lines. That would involve potentially British forces and French forces to start. Trump has floated the possibility that the U.S. could be involved in supporting this kind of security guarantee, but he has not said that U.S. troops will be involved. It seems like Trump is backing away from this idea of a ceasefire as being a crucial next step. So that's significant as well.
The tone appeared to be in sharp contrast to Zelensky's last Oval Office visit in February when the Ukrainian leader was berated for not sufficiently thanking American officials for their support. What did you make of how both Trump and Zelensky carried themselves today?
Well, certainly this was not a rerun of the February meeting. Zelensky was much more measured in his comments. He thanked Trump repeatedly and he even thanked First Lady Melania as well for her letter to Putin asking him to consider the war's impact on children. So the comments themselves, the substance as well as the optics was much warmer and people came away from it much more optimistic than that last meeting. So in less than one week, Trump has met with Putin and Zelensky. Where do we go from here? In the short term, Trump has said he's going to call Putin directly after the meeting. He's going to try to set up a trilateral meeting between Zelensky, Putin, and Trump himself.
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