The next steps ahead are the more complicated ones now.

The path is open.

You opened it last Friday.

But now the way is open for complicated negotiations.

And to be honest, we all would like to see a ceasefire, the latest from the next meeting on.

I can't imagine that the next meeting would take place without a ceasefire.

So let's work on that.

And let's try to put pressure on Russia.

Hi again, everyone.

It's now 5 o'clock in the east where we are witnessing together an historic summit of

world leaders coming together in the hopes of bringing about an end to the years-long

war in Ukraine, a multilateral meeting between Donald Trump, Ukrainian President Zelensky,

and several European leaders.

It's currently underway at the White House right now.

But before the leaders went behind closed doors,

we heard that pointed message about a ceasefire from Germany's prime minister, Friedrich Merse,

a plea to reach a ceasefire very soon before another meeting.

To which Donald Trump responded, we don't need that.

Trump did announce that the US would help

with Ukraine security and that he would call Vladimir Putin

to discuss everything that happened today

and to hopefully set up a trilateral meeting

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