President Donald Trump is seeking to convene a three-way summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as early as Friday, 22 August, Axios reported, citing two people familiar with the matter. The proposal follows Trump’s meeting with Putin in Anchorage last week and precedes Zelensky’s scheduled visit to the White House on Monday. Trump outlined the idea during a conference call with European leaders and invited them to attend the Washington gathering if Monday’s bilateral talks with Zelensky “go well,” the report said. U.S. officials hope the encounter could jump-start negotiations aimed at ending the three-and-a-half-year war in Ukraine. According to officials briefed on the Alaska talks, Putin signaled willingness to freeze current front lines if Ukraine ceded the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, while Washington has discussed offering security guarantees for Kyiv modeled on NATO’s Article 5. Planning for the trilateral summit remains preliminary and contingent on agreement from all three leaders.