A diplomatic scramble unfolded Saturday after President Donald Trump introduced he would meet his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, subsequent week in Alaska, as European leaders rushed to know the phrases of the assembly and guarantee Ukraine was not being unnoticed of discussions about its future.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was not named as a participant within the Alaska summit, to happen Friday between Trump and Putin. However, the White House has not utterly dominated out together with Zelensky in some conferences, two sources acquainted with the matter informed CNN. One White House official confused that something involving Zelensky would doubtless occur after the Trump-Putin assembly.
A White House official stated Trump remained “open to a trilateral summit with both leaders” however that “the White House is planning the bilateral meeting requested by President Putin.”
CNN’s Manu Raju discusses along with his "Inside Politics" panel: CNN’s Kristen Holmes, Zoltan Kanno-Youngs of the New York Times, and Amy Walter of the Cook Political Report.
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