Trump invited European leaders to join the meeting with the Ukrainian president.
Following what was described as a “lengthy” phone call with President Donald Trump, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced that he will travel to Washington on Monday to meet with President Donald Trump. A White House official said Trump has invited European leaders to join the meeting on Monday afternoon.
Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin met in Alaska on Friday and while Putin mentioned an "agreement" in the post-meeting news conference and Trump said "great progress" was made, there was no mention of a ceasefire.
On the eve of the summit, air raid sirens were heard in Kyiv shortly after midnight, according to ABC News' team on the ground in the Ukrainian capital.
Drones were also reported flying over the Poltava and Dnipro regions of Ukraine overnight Thursday into Friday.
Before President Trump sits down with Russian President Putin in Alaska, experts emphasize the historical significance of this meeting location.
"I think that what's missing in a lot of our political conversations in the world right now is history, and there's a history behind a lot of what's happening not only in this Russian-American relationship, but also this war," Lee Farrow, history professor and chair of the Department of History and World Cultures at Auburn University at Montgomery, told ABC News.
Read more on the significance of the summit's location here.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, excluded from Friday's talks, this week laid out key Ukrainian demands for any ceasefire.
Decisions taken without Kyiv's input will be "stillborn decisions," Zelenskyy said.
Zelenskyy's talks with European leaders and Trump on Wednesday did appear to find consensus on key Ukrainian demands according to subsequent statements from Zelenskyy and his European counterparts, including that Kyiv will be the one to decide on any territorial concessions and that no such concessions can occur without binding security guarantees.
Read more here from ABC News' David Brennan.
Could President Donald Trump's summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin bring a ceasefire in the war in Ukraine?
What's clear is the meeting could be a golden opportunity for Putin to influence Trump's vision for how to end the war.
Many observers, particularly Russian, are dismissing the meeting as a sign Trump has allowed Putin to once again deceive him. They note that Trump threatened Russia with tougher sanctions, but instead, Putin now has a summit where he can once more pretend to want peace. They view this as Putin's latest -- and potentially very successful -- gambit to defuse Trump's frustration with him and head off his threat to impose tougher sanctions on Russia.
But there are still some glimmers that perhaps the meeting could move a ceasefire closer. There are indications that the gap between Russia and Ukraine's positions has at least slightly narrowed.
Read more from ABC News' Patrick Reevell here.
