Putin, Trump and Russia
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Ukraine’s Zelenskyy to meet Trump on Monday after US-Russia summit secured no peace agreement
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he plans to meet U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington on Monday after Trump’s summit with Russia’s Vladimir Putin ended without an agreement to end the war in Ukraine.
Putin's meeting represented a diplomatic victory after being ostracized by Western leaders since the start of the war. Just a week earlier, Trump was threatening him with new sanctions.
Trump has visited Alaska several times as president, pushed for expanded oil, gas and mining permits there, and even got funding for new polar icebreakers, a popular stance in a state he won with 54% of the vote in 2024.
The problem is that they have no strategy of their own for ending the Ukraine war, other than hoping to contain Russia over the longer term.
Both President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin delivered brief remarks, but took no questions, in Alaska.
Lawmakers retreated to their partisan corners in response to the Trump-Putin summit in Alaska, with Republicans praising the president and Democrats arguing he was too cozy with Putin.
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine said he would meet with President Trump in Washington on Monday. Mr. Trump and President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia held talks in Alaska but announced no agreement on ending the war in Ukraine.
American officials quickly discovered a major snag in planning for the summit: summertime is peak tourist season in Alaska, and options both available and equipped to host the two world leaders were severely limited.