Evening Edition: President Trump Hosts Zelenskyy And Other European Leaders Seeking End To The War

The Fox News Rundown

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🗓️ 18 August 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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President Trump met with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday in Alaska, where the Russian leader proposed that if Ukraine agrees to give up some territory, a peace plan could be settled on. This week, President Trump welcomed back Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and several European heads of state at the White House in order to discuss how to end the war. The European leaders in attendance included: French President Emmanuel Macron, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, and Finnish President Alexander Stubb. FOX’s Eben Brown speaks with Rebekah Koffler, former senior intelligence analyst with the US Defense Intelligence Agency and the author of a best-selling book, "Putin's Playbook: Russia's Secret Plan to Defeat America.", who says any permanent peace plan could still be a long time away. Click Here⁠⁠⁠⁠ To Follow 'The FOX News Rundown: Evening Edition' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:41.5	Monday, August 18th, 2025. I'm Evan Brown. Ukraine Zelensky returns to the White House to meet with
0:49.3	President Trump and the invited heads of European states and NATO,
0:54.3	all while Vladimir Putin watches from Russia.
0:57.8	So President Trump is the only president
1:00.6	that Putin in the Western world
1:02.6	is deemed himself equal to,
1:06.6	and he talks to him.
1:08.3	And so de-escalating this war, even if we don't do peace in Ukraine, it's a good thing that we talk.
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1:34.1	find ourselves a little bit better on the other side.
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