Trump Says Moscow Deal Could Be “Next”; Zelensky Proposes Putin Meeting in United States
President Donald Trump said a Russia-Ukraine deal could be “next” after announcing the memorandum to end the Iran war. President Volodymyr Zelensky said Monday he was willing to meet Vladimir Putin in the United States. The dual signalling at the G7 Summit Day 2 is the structural Trump-administration attempt to extend the framework momentum into the Russia-Ukraine track. The Putin-Zelensky bilateral track has been closed since Putin’s rejection of the Zelensky meeting offer in early June. The CIA Saturday-night Oreshnik IRBM warning remains in active operational effect through Tuesday morning.
The Trump “Moscow deal could be next” framing is the structural extension of the framework-signing momentum into the Russia-Ukraine track. The Zelensky proposal to meet Putin in the United States is the most concrete diplomatic-channel proposal from Kyiv since the Putin rejection of the early-June bilateral; the US-soil proposal is the structural attempt to bring the US into the bilateral as a guarantor. Russia’s position remains rejection; Putin has not formally responded to the US-soil proposal. The G7 leaders’ communique Tuesday-Wednesday is expected to address Patriot replenishment, sanctions on Russia’s shadow oil fleet, and the structural post-framework regional re-architecture.