Zelenskyy and Putin Could Hold Talks Soon

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U.S. and European leaders hope a meeting between Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Russia's President Vladimir Putin to end the war in Ukraine could come soon. But some analysts have doubts about what such a meeting could achieve.

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00:00Trump is upbeat on forging peace between Russia and Ukraine, as he offers guarantees

00:05for Ukraine security once peace takes hold.

00:08On social media, he wrote that after meeting with Zelensky, he called Putin about more

00:12peace talks.

00:13A first round could see Zelensky and Putin meet, and a later second round might see Trump

00:17join them for three-way talks.

00:20It's not just Trump saying more talks are on the way.

00:23Zelensky also told reporters that's the plan, although when exactly is uncertain.

00:27We don't have any day, we just conformed after this productive meeting with the president

00:35and then with all our colleagues, the partners, we conformed that we are ready for a trilateral

00:40meeting and if Russia proposed to the president of the United States bilateral and then we

00:49will see the result of bilateral and then it can be trilateral.

00:54Ukraine's European allies are also in Washington, urging for a more concrete vision of moving

00:58forward.

00:59German Chancellor Friedrich Merz says the Zelensky-Putin meeting could happen in the next two weeks.

01:05Despite uncertainty over what that meeting might bring, he shares Trump's optimism about the

01:10momentum of talks to end the war.

01:11But what might a Zelensky-Putin or even a Trump-Zelensky-Putin meeting achieve?

01:23The Kremlin hasn't confirmed any future sit-downs.

01:39Some analysts looking at previous rounds of talks and recent Russian gains on the front

01:44have doubts.

01:45Any Russian claims, verbal promises of certain guarantees at this point are completely unreliable,

01:51given that the Kremlin has reputedly violated them in the past.

01:55So that realization that's very clear for everybody involved sort of raises some, I think, justified

02:01skepticism as to how legitimate, how honest the Kremlin is really in these promises.

02:09Some even see Russia confident and energized after Putin's recent inconclusive summit with

02:13Trump in Alaska, and no more willing to compromise than before.

02:17If Trump goes there promising, you know, fire and hell for Russia if it did not actually

02:27go along and make tangible concessions, Russia does not make tangible concessions, nothing

02:33happens.

02:34Is that the first thing, the first time?

02:35No, it has happened before.

02:37And so, while there is hope of some sort of progress, perhaps a ceasefire at least, there's

02:43also a sober realization among those following this war that more difficult discussions are

02:47to come.

02:48Eason Chen and John Van Trieste for Taiwan Plus.

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