WASHINGTON DC – President Donald Trump attempted to soothe ruffled Ukrainian and European feathers by describing his Wednesday conversation with them as “very good…I would rate it a 10”. But during a rambling appearance at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, he also underscored that the outcome of Friday’s superpower summit in Alaska remains deeply uncertain.

Trump was speaking shortly after German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky claimed to have agreed with the US leader a five-point strategy for his talks with Putin. Trump, they said, had agreed that Ukraine must be at the table for any future meetings with Putin, that a ceasefire must be a first step ahead of any fuller negotiations, and that recognising Russian-occupied terri

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