Trump’s Push for Peace Shifts to Zelenskiy in Oval Office Again
US President Donald Trump meets with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in New York on Sept. 27.
Photographer: Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP PhotoThe fate of Donald Trump’s push to stop the fighting in Ukraine will be tested again as Volodymyr Zelenskiy prepares to respond to the US president’s shifting demands following mixed signals from the Russia-US summit in Alaska.
Trump will host the Ukrainian president at the White House on Monday in their first Oval Office encounter since a public spat in February. The new encounter comes in the shadow of Friday’s still-secretive meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, after which Trump abandoned his push for an immediate ceasefire in Ukraine and Putin insisted that Kyiv give up land.