Zelenskyy will meet with Trump on Monday after the US-Russia summit.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he will meet with Donald Trump in Washington on Monday after the summit between the US president and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, ended without an agreement to end the fighting in Ukraine after three and a half years.

In an unexpected twist just hours after the meeting, Trump said that a comprehensive peace agreement, not a ceasefire, was the best way to end the war. The statement echoed Putin's view that Russia is not interested in a temporary truce and instead wants a long-term agreement that takes Moscow's interests into account.

Trump and Ukraine's European allies had called for a ceasefire before any negotiations.

Zelenskyy, who was not invited to Alaska for the summit, said he had a "long and meaningful" conversation with Trump early Saturday. He thanked him for the invitation to meet face-to-face in Washington on Monday and said they would discuss "all the details related to ending the killing and the war."

It will be his first visit to the United States since Trump publicly rebuked him for being “disrespectful” during an extraordinary meeting in the Oval Office on February 28.

Trump, who also held calls with European leaders on Saturday, confirmed the meeting at the White House and said, "If all goes well, then we will schedule a meeting with President Putin."

Trump rolled out the red carpet on Friday for Putin, who was on US soil for the first time in a decade and since the start of his full-scale invasion of Ukraine. But he didn't offer many concrete details afterward about what they had discussed. On Saturday, he said in a social media post that it "went very well."

Before the meeting, Trump had warned of "very severe consequences" for Russia if Putin did not agree to end the war.

Zelenskyy seeks European participation

Zelenskyy reiterated the importance of involving European leaders, who were also absent from the summit.

"It's important that Europeans are involved at every stage to ensure reliable security guarantees alongside the United States," he said.

"We also discussed positive signals from the US side regarding its involvement in ensuring Ukraine's security."

While he did not offer further details, Zelenskyy previously said that European partners had shelved a proposal to establish a foreign military presence in the country as a deterrent against future Russian aggression because it lacked US support.

Zelenskyy said he spoke with Trump personally and then on a call with other European leaders. In total, the talks lasted more than 90 minutes.

Trump shifts responsibility to Zelenskyy and Europe

Trump stated in Alaska that "there's no deal until there's a deal," after Putin claimed they had reached an "understanding" on Ukraine and warned Europe not to "torpedo the incipient progress."

In an interview with Fox News Channel before leaving Alaska, Trump insisted that the responsibility for moving forward could fall on Zelenskyy "to make it happen," but indicated that there would also be some involvement from European nations.

In a statement following their talks with Trump, key European leaders expressed their willingness to work with him and Zelenskyy toward "a trilateral summit with European support."

The statement by French President Emmanuel Macron; German Chancellor Friedrich Merz; Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni; British Prime Minister Keir Starmer; Finnish President Alexander Stubb; Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk; and the top two European Union officials noted that “Ukraine must have unwavering security guarantees” and welcomed Washington’s willingness to provide them.

"It will be Ukraine that makes decisions regarding its territory," the leaders stated. "International borders must not be changed by force." The statement did not mention a ceasefire, something they had hoped for before the summit.

European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas noted that “the harsh reality is that Russia has no intention of ending this war anytime soon,” and noted that Moscow's forces launched new attacks on Ukraine even during the summit.

For his part, Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala said the summit confirmed that "while the United States and its allies are seeking avenues for peace, Putin is still only interested in making the largest possible territorial advances and restoring the Soviet empire."

Ukrainian and Russian forces are fighting along the 1,000-kilometer (620-mile) front. Since spring, Russian troops have accelerated their advances and captured the largest amount of rival territory since the initial stages of the war.

“Vladimir Putin went to the Alaska summit with the primary goal of stemming any pressure on Russia to end the war,” said Neil Melvin, director of international security at the London-based Royal United Services Institute. “He will view the summit outcome as mission accomplished.”

Doubts about the meeting between Trump, Zelenskyy, and Putin

Zelenskyy expressed his support for Trump's proposal for a three-way summit with the United States and Russia. He said, "Key issues can be discussed at the leaders' level, and a trilateral format is appropriate for that."

But Putin's foreign affairs adviser, Yuri Ushakov, said on Russian state television on Saturday that a possible meeting between Trump, Putin, and Zelenskyy had not been raised at Friday's meeting. "The topic has not been discussed yet," Ushakov said, according to Russia's state news agency RIA Novosti.

In a message on X, Zelenskyy wrote that he told Trump that "sanctions should be strengthened if there is no trilateral meeting or if Russia tries to evade an honest end to the war."

Russian officials and the press adopted a largely optimistic tone, with some describing the summit as a symbolic end to Putin's isolation from the West.

Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, vice-chairman of the country's Security Council, hailed the Alaska summit as a step forward in restoring high-level dialogue between Moscow and Washington, describing the talks as "calm, without ultimatums or threats."

Russian attacks on Ukraine continued overnight, with one ballistic missile and 85 Shahed drones fired, 61 of which were shot down, the Ukrainian Air Force reported. The frontline areas of Sumy, Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, and Chernihiv were attacked.

The Russian Defense Ministry said its air defenses shot down 29 Ukrainian drones over Russia and the Sea of Azov overnight.