United States President Donald Trump says there will likely be a "quick second meeting" between Vladimir Putin, Volodymyr Zelensky and Donald Trump after the summit in Alaska on Friday.

"If the first meeting goes well, we will quickly have a second one. I would like to do it almost immediately. We will have a quick second meeting between President Putin, President Zelensky and myself, if they want me to be present," Trump said.

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Trump said there is a very good chance of meeting with Putin and Zelensky after the summit in Alaska on Friday.

Trump said that if the first meeting with Putin on Friday"goes well", then there will be a"quick second" between Putin and Zelensky "and me if they want to be there".

"There is a very good chance that we will have a second meeting that will be more productive than the first, because in the first I will find out where we are and what we are doing," Trump said, answering questions from reporters at the Kennedy Center.

Trump will"fight for" a trilateral meeting with Putin and Zelensky

Trump also said that Ukraine must be included in territory negotiations in any ceasefire agreement with Russia, Emmanuel Macron said after talks with European leaders and the US president.

The French president added that Trumpwill"fight" for a trilateral summit with Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky.

Trump's insistence on including Ukraine, if confirmed, could bring relief to Ukraine and its allies, who fear that Russian and American leaders could strike a deal that would jeopardize European and Ukrainian security interests.

Macron also said his American counterpart had made it"very clear" that he wanted to achieve a ceasefire at the upcoming US-Russia summit in Alaska.