President Donald Trump speaks during a Cabinet meeting in the Cabinet Room at the White House, in Washington, May 27, 2026.
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U.S. President Donald Trump will meet with Middle Eastern leaders and attend a working session with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during the G7 summit in France next week, senior U.S. administration officials said on Saturday.
Trump is scheduled to travel to Evian, France, for the G7 summit early Monday after attending Sunday’s mixed-martial-arts event at the White House. He will speak to a number of European leaders with whom he has squabbled over trade, tariffs, Ukraine and NATO since his return to the White House early in 2025.
Trump will participate in a working session on Tuesday with Zelenskyy and G7 leaders. The meeting comes at a time when Russian advances in Ukraine have slowed and Ukraine seeks more military funding from its allies.
One of the senior U.S. officials, who briefed reporters on condition of anonymity about Trump’s trip, said Russian gains have “more or less stopped.”
“We want the war to end as quickly as possible,” the official said.
Trump has had up-and-down relations with Zelenskyy. No bilateral meeting was planned with Zelenskyy but the two leaders could meet on the sidelines of the summit, the officials added.
They said Trump would meet separately with the leaders of Egypt, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, France and India.
Trump planned to raise issues of shared importance with leaders at the summit, including economic growth and development, supply chain resilience, illegal migration and AI, one of the officials said. He also planned to work on boosting resilience in the supply chain for critical minerals needed for advanced technologies.
Trump planned to attend a dinner with French President Emmanuel Macron at the Palace of Versailles on Wednesday before returning to Washington, the officials said.
