After Iran deal, Trump focuses on Ukraine

**Ankur Desai** (0:00)
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On the first full day of talks at the G7 Summit in the French spa town of Evian, the focus has been on Russia's war with Ukraine and how to find an end to it. President Trump met Ukraine's President Zelensky and will hold further talks with him later. He told reporters that he was pushing for a deal from Russia.

**Donald Trump** (1:32)
Russia should make a deal. Russia's lost tremendous amounts of people, and so is Ukraine. And it's crazy what's going on there, but we had a meeting, and we'll see how. I spoke with President Putin on Sunday, and it's sort of the same thing. I mean, they just keep going fighting, losing soldiers. They lose so many soldiers.
This is not since World War II or anything like this. I settled eight wars. This was the one I thought was going to be the easiest settle. There just is a lot of dislike between the two leaders.

**Ankur Desai** (2:07)
President Zelensky gave this assessment of his meetings with President Trump and European leaders.

**Volodymyr Zelensky** (2:12)
We had a very positive summit, and we discussed the situation on the battlefield. We spoke about negotiations with Russians, potential negotiations with Russians. We spoke about middle strikes and long range the situation with Russian losses, economy and etc. Good news, first of all, that yes, Putin has to stop this war.
And I have unanimity from all the leaders and EU presidents.

**Ankur Desai** (2:46)
I asked our North America correspondent Anthony Durka, who's in Evian, what the mood was like there, given that tensions have been bad between Europe and Trump in the past few months.

**Anthony Durka** (2:57)
It seems friendlier definitely now than it has been in the past. And part of that is because of the Iran negotiations and this tentative agreement, memorandum of understanding that Trump and the Iranians have come to terms on, and that has lightened Trump's mood. And so when you see the leaders interacting, it's much more jovial, much more friendly. Friedrich Merz, the Chancellor of Germany, gave a soccer jersey, a German soccer kit to Trump that had 47, the number that Donald Trump is as president on the back of it. So it seems like this is friendlier even if obviously when talk turns to Ukraine, Donald Trump has been a little more dismissive of that than I think the Europeans would hope.

**Ankur Desai** (3:39)
What's at stake exactly here, Anthony?

**Anthony Durka** (3:41)
Well, I think the main thing for the Europeans is to try to keep this from creating any sort of rupture. If you remember back to last year's G7 meetings in Canada, Donald Trump left after the first day. He cut his time here short and that's something that I think all of America's allies don't want to have happen again. And one of the reasons why Trump has been invited by the French president Macron to a dinner at the Palace of Versailles tomorrow night to try to keep him engaged and interested through the duration of these meetings. But the stakes here are to try to get all of the allies on the same page and get them working together. And on the big issues like Ukraine and Iran and trade, there have been tensions, but there is hope, I think, at this point to find some sort of a way through.

**Ankur Desai** (4:25)
And Anthony, a word on Iran. Did he seem upbeat about that? Reveal anything further regarding the deal?

**Anthony Durka** (4:31)
Trump is a salesman and he's been selling this Iran deal nonstop since he's been here. He said he thinks it's a great deal, that people are going to be happy with it in a meeting with the emir of Qatar.