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Zelensky and Trump agree to meet in New York

Ukrainian president announced the planned meeting on social media platform X.

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What this story says

  • Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced on X that he spoke with Donald Trump and they agreed to meet in New York.
  • Zelensky thanked Trump for the visit of Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner to Kyiv.
  • The meeting is expected to take place in New York during the opening of the UN General Assembly.
  • Zelensky previously expressed hope for a September meeting with the US president to discuss a winter package for Ukraine's air defense.

Who covered it

Left 0%(0)Centre 50%(3)Right 50%(3)

Percentages are shares of the 6 outlets carrying a published leaning rating. 9 of the 15 outlets we know ran this story carry no rating and are not counted in them. Coverage measured .

Trust

42/100

Craft

61/100

Hype

41/100

15 sources · methodology

Thin on the left so far

None of the 6 outlets with a published leaning rating that ran this story are rated left.

This story is still being watched, so it is a count and not yet a finding. Coverage keeps arriving for hours after an event, and a side that has published nothing this morning may publish by tonight. If it is still true when we stop checking, we will say so plainly.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced on X that he had spoken with Donald Trump and they agreed to meet in New York. Zelensky stated the conversation was important and that many topics were discussed. He also thanked Trump for the visit of Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner to Kyiv, noting they saw the situation in Ukraine firsthand. The meeting is anticipated to occur in New York during the opening of the UN General Assembly.

Disagreement on meeting timing

Ekstra Bladet reported that it was not clear from Zelensky's post when the meeting would take place. However, the outlet noted that numerous top politicians would be in New York for the opening of the UN General Assembly in the coming week. No other reports mentioned a specific timeframe for the meeting.

What the coverage left out

None of the left-rated reports covered this story. The digests from the centre and right-rated outlets did not mention Zelensky's previous hope for a September meeting with the US president to discuss a winter package for Ukraine's air defence, a detail present in the full reports from ANSA and Ekstra Bladet.

Tags:#Ukraine#Zelensky#Trump#Politics#InternationalRelations

Still developing. We have re-checked which outlets are covering this 2 times, most recently on 20 Sept 2026, 19:30, and will add the sides that appear.

How each side covered it

Our own reading of the reporting listed below, written from the outlets’ articles rather than quoted from them. The reasoning is set out on our methodology page.

Left

0 rated outlets

No outlet rated left has run this story so far. We are still checking, and will say plainly if that does not change.

Centre

3 rated outlets

  • The centre-rated reports led with the announcement of the meeting between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Donald Trump in New York. ANSA and Ekstra Bladet both highlighted Zelensky's statement on X about the agreement to meet. Ekstra Bladet also noted that the meeting could change much and that there is diplomatic momentum, a point also made by ANSA. Both outlets mentioned Zelensky thanking Trump for the visit of Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner to Kyiv. Ekstra Bladet further elaborated on the context of US negotiators working to restart talks between Russia and Ukraine and Zelensky's earlier hopes for a September meeting to discuss air defence.

Right

3 rated outlets

  • The right-rated reports focused on the agreement for a meeting between Zelensky and Trump. Berlingske.dk's digest stated that Zelenskyy believes a new meeting with Trump could change a lot. N-tv's digest reported that Selenskyj and Trump agreed to meetings, adding the quote "This Can Change a Lot". Both digests indicated the meeting would take place in New York.

Questions about this coverage

How did the left and right cover Zelensky and Trump agree to meet in New York?
Of the 6 outlets on this story carrying a published leaning rating, 0% are rated left, 50% are rated centre, 50% are rated right. Those percentages are shares of the rated outlets, not of every outlet that ran it, which was 15. The sections above set out what each side emphasised, in its own terms.
Is Zelensky and Trump agree to meet in New York left or right?
Too few of the outlets on this story carry a published leaning rating to say. 6 of them do, and this site does not characterise a field under 12: at that size one newsroom filing moves the share by ten points. The percentages above are the count as it stands.
Is the coverage of Zelensky and Trump agree to meet in New York biased?
Zelensky and Trump agree to meet in New York is one event reported by 15 outlets, and this page does not rate the story as biased or unbiased. What it publishes is the spread: which outlets ran it, where named rating organisations place each of them on the spectrum, and what each side chose to lead with. A leaning rating describes an outlet's record over time, not this article, and the two should not be run together.
Which side is not reporting Zelensky and Trump agree to meet in New York?
When we first saw this story, outlets rated left had barely covered it. Coverage accretes for hours after an event, so that is where to look rather than a verdict — the split above is the current count, and it is the one to read.
Which outlets covered Zelensky and Trump agree to meet in New York?
15 that we know of, every one of them listed further up this page with a link to its own report and to what we hold on the publisher. Nothing here is a summary of somebody else's summary: the outlets are named so the original reporting can be read.
What did Volodymyr Zelensky announce about Donald Trump?
Volodymyr Zelensky announced on X that he had spoken with Donald Trump and they had agreed to meet in New York. He described the conversation as important and covering many topics.
When is the meeting between Zelensky and Trump expected to take place?
The meeting is expected to take place in New York during the opening of the UN General Assembly. It was not specified exactly when within that period it would occur.
Why did Zelensky thank Trump?
Zelensky thanked Trump for the visit of Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner to Kyiv. He stated that they had seen the situation in Ukraine firsthand.

Read it at the source

15 outlets, grouped by the leaning a published rating gives them. Every headline links to the original; an underlined outlet name opens our profile of that publisher.

Left

0

No outlet in this group ran the story.

Centre

3

Right

3

Not rated

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