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The Rich Zeoli Show

Are We on the Verge of a Russia-Ukraine Peace Agreement?

The Rich Zeoli Show

Audacy

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4.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

The Rich Zeoli Show- Hour 1: 3:05pm- On Monday, President Donald Trump held a multilateral meeting from the White House—which included Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and several European leaders including German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, French President Emmanuel Macron, and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. 3:30pm- While speaking with the press, President Donald Trump expressed optimism about ending the war between Russia and Ukraine—noting that he didn’t think an initial ceasefire agreement was necessary while simultaneously forging a path towards a permanent, lasting peace agreement. 3:40pm- President Trump said of the corporate media’s coverage of his peace efforts: “No matter what I do, [Zelenskyy] comes out good—maybe Putin comes out good. They'll say Trump was absolutely horrible. And I've lived with that for a long time." 3:45pm- While taking questions from the press, President Trump was asked if American troops would be used to guarantee/enforce any hypothetical peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine. Trump said that the U.S. would be involved though he would not explicitly state American troops would be involved. 3:50pm- During an interview with Margaret Brennan, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that he saw “movement” from the Russian delegation during Friday’s Alaska summit—expressing optimism that an end to the war may be possible at some point.

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0:00.0

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0:16.0

Zelensky speaking, they're talking about territorial swaps, security guarantees, and wrapping up this war

0:23.8

once and for all. This is very historic, obviously, as all these European leaders are live

0:29.3

at the White House with the president and Zelensky and trying to finish this thing. Once and

0:34.4

for all, this comes off the heels of the president's meeting with Putin in Alaska

0:38.2

on Friday, obviously. So let's jump in, take a listen right now, live at the White House. Go ahead.

0:45.6

Security guarantees bringing kids back and all our people, not only warriors, first of all,

0:52.0

warriors, and all the civilians, journalists, a lot of people in prison.

0:56.3

So we need them back.

0:59.1

And guarantees, which will work for the years, we spoke about it.

1:03.5

And I showed, to President, a lot of details on the battlefield, on the map.

1:09.5

Thank you so much.

1:10.5

Thank you for the map, by the way.

1:11.6

Good map.

1:12.6

It was great.

1:13.6

I'm thinking how to take it back.

1:15.6

We'll get you.

1:16.6

No, no.

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