Zelensky, Trump and Washington
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I’ll get it done,” the US president says ahead of peace talks with Ukraine’s president at 13:00 EST (18:00 BST).
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is in Washington to meet with US President Donald Trump for talks aimed at ending the war with Russia. This comes on the heels of Trump’s meeting on Friday with Russian President Vladimir Putin who insists on Ukraine giving up territory as part of a deal.
European leaders are to join the Ukrainian president during a visit that seeks a path to ending the war between Ukraine and Russia.
The Prime Minister will join Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky in the White House as the US issues its demands to Ukraine following last week's Alaska summit with Vladimir Putin
President Donald Trump and others mocked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in March when he showed up at the White House in his customary military-style fatigues. Zelensky apparently got the message.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio denied that European leaders are in the U.S. to back up Zelensky from being railroaded into a deal.
For many self-respecting Europeans, the middle of August is a time for siestas in Ibiza or aperitivos in Tuscany. But this week, no fewer than seven European leaders dropped everything to fly to Washington to back up President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine as he met President Trump.
When Ukraine’s president sat in the Oval Office in February things went downhill, fast. On a mission to Washington to secure the U.S.’s continued support in his campaign to end Russia’s invasion of his country,