• Trump will meet Putin: US President Donald Trump said he will sit down with Russian leader Vladimir Putin next Friday in Alaska.
• Zelensky defiant: Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky says his country “will not give land to the occupier” after Trump said there could be some “swapping of territories” to end the war in Ukraine.
• UK meeting: US Vice President JD Vance and the UK’s Foreign Minister David Lammy hosted a summit today in Britain with Ukrainian and European allies, which a US official said “produced significant progress.” Zelensky called the meeting “constructive,” but said that “the path to peace for Ukraine must be determined together and only together with Ukraine.”
• What’s in the plan: European leaders have been scrambling this week to gain a better read on what Putin told Trump’s foreign envoy Steve Witkoff during talks in Moscow. The way the Europeans understand it, the plan put forward by Putin would give Russia control of Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region.
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