By Ryan Morgan
President-elect Donald Trump met with French President Emmanuel Macron and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at The Elysee Presidential Palace in Paris on Saturday evening.

Macron was seen giving a thumbs-up as Trump and Zelenskyy flanked him for a photo opportunity at the presidential palace.
Macron had planned to meet with Zelenskyy, and the French president’s office said he proposed the three-way meeting shortly before Trump’s arrival.
Their meeting comes as Trump has signaled he would prefer to quickly negotiate an end to the ongoing Russia–Ukraine war, but with questions remaining about how he would halt the fighting.
If a cease-fire freezes the conflict along the current battle lines, Russia could retain a sizeable swathe of Ukraine’s pre-war territory.
Zelenskyy has indicated he would be open to negotiating for a cease-fire if the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) extends alliance membership over the parts of Ukraine not currently under Russian control.
“If we want to stop the hot phase of the war, we need to take under the NATO umbrella the territory of Ukraine that we have under our control,” the Ukrainian president said in a Nov. 29 interview.
Zelenskyy said Ukraine might eventually regain control of the Russian-occupied territory through some diplomatic means.
It remains to be seen if Trump will use Zelenskyy’s terms as a starting point for cease-fire talks.
In an effort to build trust with the incoming U.S. administration, Zelenskyy’s top aide Andriy Yermak met key members of Trump’s team on a two-day trip earlier this week.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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