1. US President Donald Trump wrapped up meetings in Washington with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and his European counterparts. He said he will set up a meeting between the Ukrainian and Russian leaders. Trump posted on social media at the end of the meetings at the White House, saying, “I called President Putin, and began arrangements for a meeting, at a location to be determined, between President Putin and President Zelenskyy.” Trump also commented on the talks with European leaders and Zelenskyy. He said, “We discussed Security Guarantees for Ukraine, which Guarantees would be provided by the various Europeans countries, with a coordination with the United States of America.”
2. US President Donald Trump welcomed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to the White House for ceasefire talks with him and European leaders on Monday. They said security guarantees would be on the table. It was Zelenskyy’s first visit to the Oval Office since their February meeting, which devolved into a heated argument. The talks came on the heels of Trump’s Alaska summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday. Before beginning the bilateral meeting, Trump told reporters that the wanted to make sure there will be a lasting peace, and he hoped it will be “immediately.”
3. Police in the Philippines said on Monday that they had detained two suspects in connection with the recent fatal shooting of two Japanese men in Manila. The pair were shot by a man who approached them when they got out of a taxi on Friday night in the capital. Both of them died. The shooter reportedly took the victims’ belongings and fled on a motorcycle. The police say they are looking into the relationship between the two suspects and what motive they could have had.