Overview

• The summit kicked off with a bilateral meeting between President Trump and President Zelensky at 1:15 p.m. local time, to be followed by a multilateral session with European leaders including Giorgia Meloni, Friedrich Merz and Emmanuel Macron.
• Reported Russian proposals call for Ukraine to withdraw forces from Donetsk and Luhansk, freeze the front in Kherson and Zaporizhia, permit limited returns in Sumy and Kharkiv and formally recognize Crimea as Russian.
• Moscow has offered NATO-style security guarantees that exclude Ukrainian accession and foreign troops, and has suggested China serve as a guarantor of the agreement.
• Zelensky has repeatedly urged that negotiations start from the current frontline and has cited Ukraine’s constitution as barring any territorial concessions.
• Fighting has continued during the talks, with a Russian drone and missile attack on Kharkiv killing and wounding civilians, including a child, and Russia reporting it shot down 23 Ukrainian drones overnight.