The White House has yet to schedule bilateral talks with Volodymyr Zelensky on the sidelines of the Davos forum, despite US President Donald Trump's upcoming meeting with the “coalition of the willing” on Wednesday about security guarantees for Ukraine, Politico reported, citing its sources.
Zelensky is eager to meet Trump in person, but the reluctance comes from the White House, a Republican foreign policy expert told the publication, who asked not to be named.
“He is ready to meet with Trump at any opportunity because he believes the benefits outweigh the negatives and that if the US president does not communicate with him personally, others will,“, the expert added.
Earlier, the Financial Times reported that leaders of most G-7 countries plan to attend the proposed meeting between Trump and Zelensky on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos. According to them, the main purpose of the meeting, scheduled for January 21, is to try to secure Trump's personal approval of security guarantees for Ukraine. For these purposes, according to the article, the prime ministers of Great Britain, Italy and Canada - Keir Starmer, Giorgia Meloni and Mark Carney - as well as German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, French President Emmanuel Macron and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, are planning to travel to Switzerland.