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.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has arrived in Magadan, a port town in far eastern Russia, while en route to Alaska.
Putin is expected to meet with the region's governor, Sergey Nosov, according to Russian media reports.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio briefly discussed the summit preparations during an unrelated event at the State Department on Thursday.
"They're going very fast because this was put together very quickly, and it’s in Alaska, so we’ve got to get there," Rubio said. "We'll see how tomorrow plays out. As the president said, his hope is to interact with Mr. Putin tomorrow and sort of get a sense very quickly and early whether a peace is possible or not."
"We hope it is," he added.
The secretary also spoke about the conditions that would need to be met to achieve a lasting peace.
"I think we all recognize that there'll have to be some conversation about security guarantees. There'll have to be some conversation about, you know, territorial disputes and claims and what they're fighting over,” Rubio said. "But I think the president's hope is to achieve some stoppage of fighting so that those conversations can happen."
As the fighting is ongoing, he said a ceasefire is "critical."
"We want there to be a peace, we're going to do everything we can to achieve one, but ultimately, it will be up to Ukraine and Russia to agree to one," Rubio said.
-ABC News' Shannon K. Kingston
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.
