President Donald Trump addresses a Cabinet meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House on May 27, 2026 in Washington.
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US President Donald Trump will meet Middle East leaders during the Group of Seven summit in France next week and attend a working meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, a senior US administration official announced Saturday.
President Trump is scheduled to attend a mixed martial arts event at the White House on Sunday before heading to Evian, France, for the G7 summit early Monday. He will meet with a number of European leaders with whom he has quarreled over trade, tariffs, Ukraine and NATO since returning to the White House in early 2025.
Mr. Trump will participate in a working meeting with Mr. Zelensky and G7 leaders on Tuesday. The talks come as Russia’s advance into Ukraine slows and Ukraine seeks more military funding from its allies.
A senior U.S. official briefing reporters on Trump’s visit on condition of anonymity said Russian interests have “more or less stopped.”
“We hope the war ends as soon as possible,” the official said.
Trump has had an up-and-down relationship with Zelensky. No bilateral talks with Zelenskiy were scheduled, but the two leaders could meet on the sidelines of the summit, the officials added.
They announced that President Trump would meet separately with the leaders of Egypt, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, France and India.
At the summit, Trump planned to raise issues of shared importance to leaders, including economic growth and development, supply chain resilience, illegal immigration and artificial intelligence, one of the officials said. He also planned efforts to increase the resilience of supply chains for critical minerals needed for advanced technologies.
Trump was scheduled to attend a dinner with French President Emmanuel Macron at the Palace of Versailles on Wednesday before returning to Washington, officials said.
