{"id":12124,"date":"2026-07-26T18:42:42","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T15:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/?p=12124"},"modified":"2026-07-26T18:42:42","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T15:42:42","slug":"trump-and-zelensky-to-meet-in-washington-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/trump-and-zelensky-to-meet-in-washington-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump and Zelensky to Meet in Washington This Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A White House official confirmed the meeting to AFP on Friday, speaking on condition of anonymity. The session comes as efforts to broker a settlement to the four-year war experience renewed attention following a period in which Middle Eastern affairs dominated the international agenda.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Volodymyr Zelensky<\/strong> revealed earlier this week that he had held discussions with Trump&#8217;s special envoy <strong>Steve Witkoff<\/strong> and the president&#8217;s son-in-law <strong>Jared Kushner<\/strong> as part of ongoing attempts to restart negotiations that had previously stalled.<\/p>\n<p>The relationship between Trump and Zelensky has been marked by tension, most notably during a contentious Oval Office encounter in February 2025. During that heated exchange, Trump expelled Zelensky from the White House in full view of the press and the American public.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"rumble\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/rumble.com\/embed\/v6nondo\/?pub=he97b\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Tuesday&#8217;s meeting will coincide with a memorial service in Washington for the late Senator <strong>Lindsey Graham<\/strong>, a steadfast advocate for Ukraine who passed away earlier this month at age 71. Graham died from a sudden illness on July 11 following his return from Kyiv, where he had announced reaching an agreement with the White House on a long-delayed Russia sanctions package.<\/p>\n<p>The South Carolina Republican served in the U.S. Senate for more than two decades and secured Trump&#8217;s endorsement before winning his Republican primary in early June of this year.<\/p>\n<p>Trump is also scheduled to meet Israeli Prime Minister <strong>Benjamin Netanyahu<\/strong> on the same day as his session with Zelensky, underscoring the packed diplomatic calendar as multiple international crises compete for presidential attention.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right\"><em>With information from <a href=\"https:\/\/breitbart.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Breitbart News<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump will meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House on Tuesday as diplomatic efforts to resolve the four-year conflict with Russia gain momentum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":12123,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[196,6597,211,209,229,10209],"nfg_topic":[135],"class_list":["post-12124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-russia-conflict","tag-ukraine","tag-united-states","tag-volodymyr-zelensky","tag-white-house-meeting","nfg_topic-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12125,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12124\/revisions\/12125"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12124"},{"taxonomy":"nfg_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/nfg_topic?post=12124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}