(18 Aug 2025)
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Washington – 18 August 2025
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1. Cutaway of reporter question UPSOUND: “President Zelensky, are you prepared to keep sending Ukrainian troops to their deaths for another couple of years, or are you going to agree to redraw the maps?"
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Ukrainian President:
“Thank you for your question. So first of all, you know, we live under each day attacks, you know that today have been a lot of attacks and a lot of wounded people and the child was dead, small one, (age was) one year and a half. So we need to stop this war to stop Russia and we need support, American and European partners, and we will do our best for this. And I think we showed that we are strong people and we supported the idea of the United States, of personally President Trump, to stop this war, to make a diplomatic way of finishing this war. And we are ready for trilateral (meeting), as the President said, this is a good signal about trilateral. I think this is very good. Thank you.”
3. Cutaway of reporters UPSOUND: “If the peace deal will be achieved, are you going to be willing to send the American peacekeepers to Ukraine?”
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Donald Trump, U.S. President:
“Well, we’re going to work with Ukraine. We’re going work with everybody, and we’re gonna make sure that if there’s peace, the peace is going to stay long-term. This is very long-term, we are not talking about a two-year peace and then we end up this mess again. We’re going to make sure that everything is good. We’ll work with Russia. We’re gonna work with Ukraine. And we’re gonna make sure it works. And I think if we can get to peace, it’s going to work. I have no doubt about it.”
5. Cutaway of reporters UPSOUND: “Your team has talked about security guarantees. Could that involve U.S. Troops? Would you rule that out in the future?”
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Donald Trump, U.S. President:
“We’ll let you know (about) that maybe later today. We’re meeting with seven great leaders of great countries also. And we’ll be talking about that. They’ll all be involved. But there’ll be a lot of — there’ll be a lot of help. When it comes to security, there’s going to be a lot help. It’s going to be good. They are first line of defense because they’re there. They’re Europe. But we’re going to help them out also. We’ll be involved.”
7. Cutaway of reporters UPSOUND: “Do you, have you had an understanding what are the root cause of this war?”
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Donald Trump, U.S. President:
“Well, look, the war is going to end. When it ends, I can’t tell you, but the war is going end, and this gentleman wants it to end and Vladimir Putin wants it end. I think the whole world is tired of it.”
9. Cutaway of Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio panning up to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Donald Trump, U.S. President:
(Reporter: Can you tell us about your conversations with European leaders and what they need to see to support an end to the war?)
“Yeah, well, we’re going to be meeting with a great representative group and seven very powerful, very big countries and great people, all friends of mine and friends of yours. And we’re gonna have some suggestions made. They want to see peace. They would like to see peace.
11. Cutaway of Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Donald Trump, U.S. President:
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STORYLINE:
“We are ready for trilateral,” he said.
Such a meeting would be held to negotiate an end to Russia war against Ukraine.
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