President Trump warned Wednesday that Russia would face “very severe consequences” if President Vladimir Putin doesn’t agree to a ceasefire deal at a bilateral summit with Trump in Alaska on Friday. Trump’s warning came after he held a virtual meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and European leaders. Zelensky has rejected proposals for Ukraine to give areas in the Donbas region as part of a ceasefire. Zelensky spoke in Berlin on Wednesday.

President Volodymyr Zelensky: “We talked about the meeting in Alaska. We hope that the central topic of the meeting will be a ceasefire, an immediate ceasefire. The U.S. president has repeatedly said this. He suggested to me that after the meeting in Alaska, we will have contact, and we will discuss all the results, if there are any, and we will determine the next mutual steps.”