President Donald Trump hosted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and other European leaders at the White House on Monday, as negotiations to end the war in Ukraine enter a critical stage.
Trump met with Vladimir Putin on Friday, but while he rolled out the red carpet for the Russian dictator, effectively ending his diplomatic isolation by the West since his full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, he did not manage to secure a deal to bring the conflict to a close.
“There’s no deal until there is a deal,” Trump told reporters at a press conference in Anchorage, Alaska, following a meeting between Trump, Putin, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, special envoy Steve Witkoff, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Russian foreign affairs adviser Yuri Ushakov.
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Meanwhile, three states are now moving to deploy hundreds of members of their National Guard to Washington, D.C., following Trump’s federal takeover of the nation’s capital over what he falsely described as “out of control” crime in the city. Statistics, however, have shown crime rates are down in D.C.
