White House, Trump and Ukraine
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During a February Oval Office meeting, President Trump and VP JD Vance abruptly confronted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
President Donald Trump is ratcheting up pressure on Ukraine to agree to terms to end the war with Russia, echoing some of Moscow’s talking points two days after meeting President Vladimir Putin.
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine and other European leaders have learned a thing or two about negotiating, Trump-style. So has Vladimir Putin.
The Kremlin hasn't ruled out summits but has said they could only meet in the very final stages of clinching a peace agreement.
It is quite possible that Monday's meeting in the White House could prove even more crucial to the future of Ukraine - and for all of Europe's security - than last Friday's US-Russia summit in Alaska. On the surface, that Putin-Trump reunion seemed to live down to every expectation.
With the dust settling from President Donald Trump's week of rapid-fire diplomacy on the Russia-Ukraine war, attention turns to what's next in peace negotiations.