Zelenskyy to meet Trump in coming days as US steps up push for Ukraine peace deal

Meeting comes after flurry of diplomacy involving US, Russian and Ukrainian envoys, but few signs Putin will soften hardline demands Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, is expected to travel to the US in the coming days for a key meeting with Donald Trump, as Washington continues to push for a possible peace deal between Kyiv and Moscow.Zelenskyy announced the planned visit on Friday in a social media post, saying he had received a briefing from Rustem Umerov, secretary of Ukraine’s national security and defence council, on new contacts with US officials. Continue reading...