2025-08-19
13 分钟After the handshakes and smiles in Washington,
more question marks remain over how to achieve peace in Ukraine.
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It's Tuesday, August 19th.
I'm Azhar Sukri for The Wall Street Journal.
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The path toward peace in Ukraine remains uncertain today,
with President Trump now calling for a summit between the leaders of Russia and Ukraine as part of the US-led push to end the war.
At the White House,
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and a host of European leaders pushed Trump to drive a hard bargain with Russian President Vladimir Putin just three days after the two leaders held a friendly meeting in Alaska.
The Kremlin said only that a meeting between senior Ukrainian and Russian negotiators had been discussed.
The details of how Ukraine's allies would protect the country from any future Russian aggression following a halt in fighting are also up in the air.
Speaking on Fox News' The Ingram Angle,
NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutter said one proposal is for the US and European nations to provide Ukraine a guarantee that they would intervene,
effectively a version of NATO's Article 5 on collective security.