{"id":6833,"date":"2026-06-16T19:05:27","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T16:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/?p=6833"},"modified":"2026-06-16T19:05:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T16:05:27","slug":"trump-holds-private-meeting-with-zelensky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/trump-holds-private-meeting-with-zelensky\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Holds Private Meeting with Zelensky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The development follows French President <strong>Emmanuel Macron<\/strong>&#8216;s pledge to Zelensky that he would work to arrange a private meeting with the American president. Those efforts appear to have borne fruit.<\/p>\n<p><em>I&#8217;m meeting him later on today<\/em>, Trump said when asked about the Ukrainian president.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement came after Trump participated in a group meeting with Zelensky and fellow G7 leaders Tuesday morning. European leaders are pressing for an end to the war in Ukraine and seeking American support for a peace agreement aligned with Ukrainian priorities.<\/p>\n<p>Trump appeared to adopt that framework when he called on Russia to pursue a diplomatic resolution.<\/p>\n<p>The president noted that both nations have suffered catastrophic losses, stating that Russia should make a deal and acknowledging the tremendous casualties sustained by both Russian and Ukrainian forces.<\/p>\n<p>The impromptu bilateral meeting represents a significant moment in diplomatic efforts to resolve the ongoing conflict, with European allies clearly hoping American pressure will help bring Moscow to the negotiating table on terms favorable to Kyiv.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right\"><em>With information from <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Post<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump confirmed he will meet one-on-one with Ukrainian President Zelensky on Tuesday following French efforts to arrange talks amid European pressure for a peace deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":6832,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[6961,196,235,5954,214,211,229],"nfg_topic":[135],"class_list":["post-6833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-diplomatic-peace-talks","tag-donald-trump","tag-emmanuel-macron","tag-g7","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-volodymyr-zelensky","nfg_topic-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6833","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\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6833"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6901,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6833\/revisions\/6901"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6833"},{"taxonomy":"nfg_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/nfg_topic?post=6833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}