The last time Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was inside the Oval Office , he was berated by his US hosts, denied a planned luncheon and abruptly asked to leave the West Wing.

“He can come back when he is ready for peace,” President Donald Trump said after the meeting fell apart.

Six months later, Zelensky is returning to the White House on Monday to learn more details of Trump’s Alaska summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin — and to learn what, exactly, the US president envisions peace looking like in Ukraine.

During the meeting in February, Trump told Zelensky: “You don’t have the cards.”

After Trump’s summit with Putin in Alaska, it remained unclear how the deck had been reshuffled.

Initial indications have not been received particularly well, either by the Ukrai

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