Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Donald Trump expressed hope that their critical meeting on August 18 with European leaders at the White House could soon lead to three-party talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin to bring an end to his war on Ukraine.

The U.S. president also said he would back European security guarantees for Ukraine as European leaders gathered for the extraordinary White House meeting.

“I think Putin wants to find an answer, too,” Trump told President Zelenskyy and European leaders. “And we’ll see in a certain period of time, not very far from now, a week or two weeks, we’re going to know whether or not we’re going to solve this or is this horrible fighting going to continue.”

Trump stopped short of committing U.S. troops to a collective effort to bols

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