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When Donald Trump hosts Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House on Monday, the U.S. President is set to turn up the pressure on his Ukrainian counterpart to agree to a peace deal with Vladimir Putin after Mr. Trump backed down from pressing the Russian leader for a ceasefire.

Mr. Zelensky, for his part, plans to bring a troop of fellow European leaders with him to the sit-down, hastily scheduled after Mr. Trump and Mr. Putin’s Friday meeting in Alaska. They are expected to fight back against Russia’s demand that Kyiv surrender swaths of territory to Moscow.

Mr. Trump, who once promised to broker an end to Mr. Putin’s invasion of Ukraine within a day of taking office, has signalled that he wants an agreement in short order. But whether a conclusion is possible in the face

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