Zelensky to visit US on Monday as Europe slams Russia-US summit in Alaska

Afterwards, the European leaders released a joint statement stating their readiness to have an "active role" in any upcoming peace talks.

The joint statement included French President Emmanuel Macron, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, and EU Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen.

It noted that the Coalition of the Willing would maintain sanctions on Russia and would not rule out EU or NATO membership for Ukraine.

"No limitations should be placed on Ukraine’s armed forces or on its cooperation with third countries. Russia cannot have a veto against Ukraine‘s pathway to the EU and NATO," the statement read.

European leaders are invited to attend a Monday meeting with Trump and Zelensky at the White House, the New York Times reported on Saturday, citing two senior European officials.

Axios reported that the initial phone conversation "wasn't easy", citing a source who was on the call.

Meloni later revealed that Putin and Trump spoke about security guarantees for Ukraine

"The crucial point remains security guarantees to prevent new Russian invasions, and this is the aspect where the most interesting developments were recorded in Anchorage," Meloni said in a statement, her second about the summit.

Meloni said Trump had highlighted an earlier Italian proposal for security guarantees for Ukraine "inspired by NATO's Article 5."

"The starting point of the proposal is the definition of a collective security clause that would allow Ukraine to benefit from the support of all its partners, including the USA, ready to take action in case it is attacked again," said Meloni.

"We support President Trump’s proposal for a trilateral meeting between Ukraine, the USA, and Russia. Ukraine emphasizes that key issues can be discussed at the level of leaders, and a trilateral format is suitable for this," Zelensky wrote.

In a post on Truth Social, Trump said that if the meeting with Zelensky works out, then a trilateral meeting between Russia, the US, and Ukraine will occur.

He confirmed in the same post that he sought a peace agreement, and not a ceasefire.

"It was determined by all that the best way to end the horrific war between Russia and Ukraine is to go directly to a Peace Agreement, which would end the war, and not a mere Ceasefire Agreement, which often times do not hold up," he wrote.

Zelensky later added that he did not want "just another pause between Russian invasions."

"Security must be guaranteed reliably and in the long term, with the involvement of both Europe and the US."

The summit was slammed by European and Ukrainian leaders, who thought that the Russian leader effectively played for time to prolong the war.

A senior Ukrainian parliamentarian told Reuters that by proposing to abandon the ceasefire in favor of a fast peace agreement, Trump adopted Putin's position.

"Unfortunately, Trump has taken Putin's position, and this was Putin's demand," said Oleksandr Merezhko, head of the Ukrainian parliament's foreign affairs committee.

"In Putin's view, a peace agreement means several dangerous things – Ukraine not joining NATO, his absurd demands for denazification and demilitarization, the Russian language and the Russian church," he said.

"The results of the Alaska summit confirm that while the US and its allies are seeking paths to peace, Putin is still only interested in the greatest possible territorial gains and the restoration of the Soviet empire," Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala said in a statement.

"The Trump-Putin talks in Alaska did not bring significant progress toward ending the war in Ukraine, but they confirmed that Putin is not seeking peace, but rather an opportunity to weaken Western unity and spread his propaganda," Czech Defense Minister Jana Cernochova wrote on X/Twitter.

"We must continue to put pressure on Russia, and even increase it, to give the clear signal to Russia that it must pay the price (for its invasion of Ukraine)," Norwegian Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide told reporters in Oslo.

"We must listen to Ukraine's wishes and needs. We know that President Putin wants to split Europe and the United States. With all our allies, we must do everything we can to avoid that. I am optimistic that we can achieve that, but we must be clear that this is a clear motivation for President Putin...

"I don't believe it will have any effect on the battlefield right now. Too little concrete information has come out, and we see no movement at all in the Russian position."

"Putin got his red carpet treatment with Trump, Trump got nothing," Germany’s former ambassador to the US, Wolfgang Ischinger wrote on X/Twitter.

"As was to be feared: no ceasefire, no peace. No real progress — clearly 1:0 for Putin — no new sanctions. For the Ukrainians: nothing. For Europe: deeply disappointing."

Polish President Donald Tusk's aide, Marcin Przydacz, told reporters that Poland was skeptical about the results of the talks.

"The fact that these talks have begun, that there is a discussion, is something we in Poland consider to be of some value. Of course we're not sure today how these talks will unfold, what their final outcome will be, but since we all want an end to the war, then the war can really only end in two ways: either by capitulation of one side, in this situation, the most important thing for us would be the defeat of the Russian Federation. But the other solution is also negotiations, and such negotiations were underway yesterday and will likely continue in the near future, because these talks, as we know, have not... resulted in any firm conclusions."

In contrast, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said that the years of tension between Russia and the US were over.

"For years, we have watched the two biggest nuclear powers dismantle the framework of their cooperation and shoot unfriendly messages back and forth. That has now come to an end. Today, the world is a safer place than it was yesterday."

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni also noted that there was a "glimmer of hope" for an end to the war in a statement on X/Twitter.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz welcomed Trump's efforts to end the war. "Ukraine can count on our unwavering solidarity as we work towards a peace that safeguards Ukraine's and Europe's vital security interests," Merz said.