What happened
A meeting between President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska and a White House summit with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and seven European leaders left Trump seemingly no closer to a deal to end the Ukraine war this week, with the Kremlin rebuffing his call for direct peace talks between Putin and Zelensky and Ukraine rejecting Moscow's demand that it surrender a vast swathe of territory. In a show of support for Zelensky—whose last visit to the White House ended in a blowup with Trump and Vice President JD Vance—European leaders including British Prime Minister Keir Starmer , French President Emmanuel Macron, and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz converged on the White House for his meeting with Trump. The U.S. president greeted Zelensky and