ARCHIVE - US President Donald Trump (r) welcomes Volodymyr Zelensky, President of Ukraine, in Florida in December 2025. Photo: Alex Brandon/AP/dpa
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US President Donald Trump says he wants to meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi in the Swiss Alpine resort of Davos. He initially spoke of a meeting today, Wednesday, but later corrected his statement to journalists and declared that the meeting would take place on Thursday, as reported by the US television station CNN.
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21.01.2026, 19:27
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He believed that the Ukrainian president wanted to make a deal, Trump claimed in Davos, where he was attending the World Economic Forum. "I think I can say that we're reasonably close." The Republican repeated his demand that the war in Ukraine, which has been going on for almost four years, must end.
The Ukrainian portal "Jewropejska Prawda" described a meeting in Davos as possible, but no longer on Wednesday. Selensky himself had already announced on Tuesday that he had a lot to do in his own country due to the ongoing Russian air attacks and would therefore only travel to Switzerland if there was a document ready to be signed or further promises of aid, for example for the delivery of anti-aircraft weapons. Shortly before Trump's speech, Selensky published pictures on his Telegram channel of a government meeting in Kiev on the subject of power supply. In many of the country's cities, citizens often have to endure hours of cold and darkness during the day.