BELGIUM, Aug 16: US President Donald Trump spoke early Saturday with Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky and European leaders to discuss his summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, a European Commission spokesperson said.
European leaders held a second call afterwards to discuss the next steps in the Ukraine conflict, the spokesperson said.
Putin and Zelensky set for peace summit after Trump talks
Trump spoke for more than an hour with Zelensky, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte and European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen, the spokesperson said.
According to the Ukrainian presidency, Trump spoke first with Zelensky and then the other European leaders joined the call. The White House has also confirmed the call.
After the summit, at which Trump and Putin did not agree on a path to end Russia's invasion, the European leaders were holding their own telephone diplomacy session to debrief on the talks, the EU spokesperson added.
There had been unease among European leaders over Trump's outreach to Putin.
