Trump-Zelenskyy: another showdown?
The News Agents
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🗓️ 18 August 2025
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
There's plenty about the build up to this Trump-Zelenskyy summit which tells you that it is no normal meeting. The questions over whether President Zelenskyy will wear a suit and tie. The video from the plane where Keir Starmer pleads with Trump to secure a "just peace". And the Truth Social posts from President Trump, just hours ahead of their talks, where he pre-emptively told the world that NATO membership was off the cards for Ukraine, as was the prospect of Crimea being returned.
Why is Trump seemingly setting pre-conditions for Ukraine which look very much like Kremlin objectives? Can European leaders convince Trump to stand by Ukraine if the conflict continues? Or could we be set for a repeat of the ugly scenes we saw in the White House in February - where Trump and JD Vance openly berated their guest, accused him of disrespect, and told him he held none of the cards?
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.2 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:12.9 | This war in Ukraine has been going on a really long time now. |
| 0:16.4 | I mean, three plus years. |
| 0:19.1 | Hulgely impacted the Ukrainians who suffered hugely. |
| 0:23.6 | But it's also impacted Europe. |
| 0:25.6 | It's impacted every single family and community in the United Kingdom. |
| 0:29.6 | And so everybody wants it to end, not least the Ukrainians. |
| 0:34.6 | But we've got to get this right. |
| 0:36.6 | We've got to make sure there is peace, that it is |
| 0:39.3 | lasting peace, and that it is fair and that it is just. And that's why I'm traveling to Washington |
| 0:46.2 | with other European leaders to discuss this face to face with President Trump and President Zelensky. |
| 0:52.6 | Because it's in everyone's interests, it's in the UK's |
| 0:56.0 | interests, that we get this right. That's the Prime Minister Kirstama, en route to Washington, |
| 1:02.0 | to that extraordinary, unprecedented meeting, gathering of leaders, acting as bodyguards, a phalanx around President Zelensky. |
| 1:12.6 | And the key bit there was, we've got to get this right. |
| 1:15.6 | What is clearly going through European leaders' minds is that, yes, Trump wants peace, but he wants peace at almost any cost. |
| 1:24.6 | Kirstama also says that any deal has to be fair and just. But given what Donald |
| 1:31.0 | Trump has posted on truth social in the past few hours about Ukraine never joining NATO and Crimea |
| 1:39.4 | never going back to Ukraine, is that possible? |
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