Trump: “President Zelensky can end the war with Russia almost immediately, if he wants to, or he can continue to fight."

Trump is due to meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, along with several European leaders, in Washington, D.C., on Monday.

At what was billed as an “historic” presidential summit, hastily put together in Alaska on Friday afternoon, the optics were as clear and overshadowing as the vast Chugach mountains glistening over Anchorage in the summer sun.

Ahead of a meeting with President Trump, President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine noted that Russia’s 2014 seizure of Ukrainian land became “a springboard for a new attack.”

Trump is set to host Zelensky and European leaders at the White House to discuss how to end Russia’s three-year war in Ukraine.

Hours before their rematch in the Oval Office, President Trump and his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelensky, already seemed to be negotiating, or at least sparring, on social media. Late Sunday,

In Alaska, the Russian leader proposed that Ukraine hand over the remainder of the Donbas region to Moscow to stop the fighting.