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Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin are set for a high-stakes meeting in Alaska to thrash out a deal and finally bring an end to the Russian invasionthat has claimed the lives of more than 300,000 people.

But one foreign leader is crucially not on the guest list: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

Trump has said, however, that he does want to arrange a historic sit-down between the two warring leaders.

That face-to-face will be just the second time Zelensky and Putin have ever met. The pair last shook hands almost six years ago in Paris – in December 2019 – before any prospect of a Russian invasion of its neighbour.

Metro explores what went down when the Russian and

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