
President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy were set to meet at the White House Friday to negotiate a rare earths deal and discuss a potential end to the Russia-Ukraine war before delivering a press conference.
The pair have exchanged verbal blows in the weeks leading up to the meeting, with Zelenskyy accusing Trump of spreading Russian disinformation about the war and Trump accusing Zelenskyy of being a “dictator.”
Three years after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the United Nations Security Council on Monday adopted a U.S.-drafted resolution that takes a neutral position on the conflict as Trump seeks to broker an end to the war. The resolution displays the more favorable view of Russia shown by Trump than his predecessor, former President Joe Biden.