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European leaders invited to Zelensky's meeting in the US

European leaders have been invited to Volodymyr Zelensky's summit with Donald Trump at the White House on Monday, sources told both Reuters and the New York Times.

Ahead of that meeting, France, Britain and Germany have invited their allies in Europe to meet on Sunday to develop a common line for the future of Ukraine.

The meetings take place after Donald Trump's summit with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Saturday night.

Nordic-Baltic leaders: Ukraine free from Russian veto

In a joint statement, the Nordic-Baltic countries say that their support for Ukraine remains unwavering and that they also support Donald Trump's attempts to end Russia's war of invasion in Ukraine, Reuters reports.

However, they stress that a peace agreement in Ukraine must be based on a Russian ceasefire and security guarantees for Ukraine, as “experience shows that Putin cannot be trusted.”

“No restrictions should be placed on Ukraine’s armed forces or on its cooperation with other countries. Russia has no veto over Ukraine’s path into the EU and NATO,” the statement signed by the leaders of Sweden, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania and Norway reads. 

Alaska meeting
Putin's charm offensive: "You lost a rigged election"

It has long been said that Donald Trump is a man who is weak for flattery, which is something that Russia's Vladimir Putin seems to have taken note of. During the presidents' meeting, the Russian is said to have gone on a charm offensive.

Donald Trump tells Fox News that Putin said, among other things, that the war in Ukraine would never have happened if he had been president. Putin sided with Trump on one of the president's most pressing issues: that he lost the 2020 election due to fraud.

- He said one of the most interesting things. That the election was rigged due to postal voting. He said that no countries have postal voting and that it is impossible to have postal voting and honest elections, says Trump and continues:

- He said that when we talked about 2020. He said: "You won the election by a good margin. If you had won, millions of people who are now dead would have been alive".

Sensitive Putin documents found in hotel printer

Documents with potentially sensitive information about the summit between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump were found by guests in a printer at an Alaska hotel on Friday morning, NPR reports.

The documents appear to come from the US State Department and reveal the exact locations and times of meetings, phone numbers for US officials and the lunch menu for the summit. The documents also include the names of the 13 Russian officials who traveled to the US and phonetic pronunciation lists for them. Among other things, it says “Mr. President POO-thin”.

At the top of the lunch menu, which consisted of green salad, beef tenderloin, halibut and crème brûlée, it says that the food is served “in honor of His Excellency Vladimir Putin”.

White House deputy press secretary Anna Kelly dismisses the documents as just a lunch menu, and does not want to call the forgotten documents a security risk