We expect these meetings to take place very soon, especially the meeting with President Zelenskyy,” Leavitt said. President Trump aims to sign a rare earth metals agreement with Ukraine, she added. The American leader believes Zelenskyy will sign the deal,

President Trump met with French President Emmanuel Macron to discuss issues including the war in Ukraine, where the two have expressed starkly different views. Macron has argued that any negotiated end to the war must come with “strong and credible security guarantees for the Ukrainians,