When Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy meets with President Trump in the White House on Friday, the mood is expected to be very different from their first Oval Office encounter.

In February, Trump berated the Ukrainian leader in front of TV cameras, saying, "You're not acting at all thankful" for U.S. military and financial support, accusing Zelenskyy of "gambling with World War III," and, as reporters watched spellbound, telling Zelenskyy to stay quiet: "No, you've done a lot of talking. ... You're not winning this."

But the two had a more cordial White House meeting in August, and met again during the United Nations General Assembly last month — when Trump suggested that Ukraine could, in fact, win back all the land Russia had seized, and possibly parts of Russia itself.

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