Politico: A meeting between Trump and Zelensky in Davos has not yet been scheduled

The White House has not yet scheduled a bilateral meeting between US President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in the Swiss city of Davos, where the annual World Economic Forum is taking place this week, writes Politico.

According to a foreign policy expert from the Republican Party, who wished to remain anonymous, Zelensky would very much like a personal meeting, and the White House seems unwilling to hold one.

“Zelensky would always meet with Trump, because he believes that the benefits outweigh the costs, and if he himself does not communicate with him, then others do,” said the interlocutor of the publication.

Politico calls Wednesday a key day for discussions about Ukraine, linking it to the fact that Trump will schedule a meeting with the leaders of the “Coalition of the Willing”, which unites Kyiv’s allies, on January 21. They intend to ask Trump to approve security guarantees agreed earlier this month in Paris for post-war Ukraine as part of broader peace talks led by the United States.

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Citing Western officials, The Telegraph reported on January 9 that Volodymyr Zelenskyi expected to travel to the White House last week to finalize both a plan to rebuild Ukraine and an agreement on security guarantees after the end of the war. But European supporters of the Ukrainian president from the “Coalition of the Willing”, according to the newspaper, refused him a trip and suggested Davos as a more suitable platform for a meeting with Trump. The plan, officials said, is to use the meeting to finalize an economic deal — a key chapter in the U.S. peace plan.