Welcome to meet the press now. I'm Kelly O'Donnell in Washington, where we continue our breaking news coverage of President Zelensky's high-stakes visit to the White House.

The Ukrainian leader flanked by Europe's most powerful figures,

just three days after that historic summit on American soil

between President Trump and Vladimir Putin.

Last hour, President Trump began a multilateral meeting with Zelensky

and those European leaders at the White House.

He sounded an optimistic tone about progress made so far, but reiterated his push for a meeting

that would include the two principles together in the same room to see if an agreement might

actually be at hand.

We're going to try and get a three-party meeting, maybe as soon as we can, and I have a feeling you and President Putin are going to work something out.

Ultimately, this is a decision that can only be made by President Zelensky and by the people of Ukraine working also together in agreement with President Putin.

I think you'll see that President Putin really would like to do something else.

I think when we set that up, when we do, I think it's going to be when, not if.

I think you're going to see some really positive moves.

This comes after President Trump and President Zelensky huddled in the Oval Office.

It was President Zelensky's first Oval Office visit since that explosive meeting back in

February. The tone today, noticeably more amical, and both leaders dive some of the more difficult

questions, at least while the cameras

were rolling, including what is perhaps the biggest sticking point of any peace deal, and that's

territorial control, whether Ukraine will have to seed land currently occupied by Russian forces

in exchange for security guarantees from the U.S.

President Zelensky, are you prepared to keep sending Ukrainian troops to their deaths for another couple years or are you going to agree to redraw the maps?

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