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Trump made the pledge during an extraordinary summit at the White House, where he hosted Zelenskyy and a group of European allies two days after Trump met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska.

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With Monday’s (Aug 18) talks in Washington now concluded, the world awaits whether a highly anticipated peace summit between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will materialise - and if it can finally drive an end to the war.

United States President Donald Trump has pledged that the US would help guarantee Ukraine's security in any deal to end the conflict, although the scope of support remains unclear.

Zelenskyy has said that he would be willing to meet Putin directly. The Russian leader, on the other hand, has told Trump that he was open to the "idea", according to Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov.

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"The human cost of this war must end. And that means every single Ukrainian child abducted by Russia must be returned to their families," said European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on social media platform X.

She was reacting to Trump’s post highlighting that the plight of missing and abducted children is a cause close to First Lady Melania Trump.

"I thank @POTUS for his clear commitment today to ensuring these children are reunited with their loved ones," she added.

Ukraine has called the abductions of tens of thousands of its children taken to Russia or Russian-occupied territory without the consent of family or guardians a war crime that meets the UN treaty definition of genocide. 

Moscow previously said it has been protecting vulnerable children from a war zone.

The United Nations Human Rights Office said Russia has inflicted suffering on millions of Ukrainian children and violated their rights since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
 

More common ground: Analyst
 

There appears to be more common ground following the meeting between Trump and Zelenskyy, said Maria Snegovaya, Senior Fellow for Russia and Eurasia with the Europe, Russia and Eurasia Program at CSIS.
 
"The bar is pretty low, given what we've seen in February,” she said.
 
“I think today there is a little bit more common ground for mutual understanding and, well, at least now President Trump claims that the Kremlin, based on the Alaska meeting that took place between President Trump and Putin on Friday, he's willing to actually also make certain concessions, including allegedly more robust security guarantees for Ukraine, certain constitutional changes for Russia, sort of claiming not to violate Ukraine's borders in the future.”
 
Crucial to Zelenskyy is the possibility of a Western military deployment in Ukraine that would form the basis for future security guarantees.
 
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Source: CNA
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