Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will meet with President Donald Trump at the White House on Monday, alongside several European allies. Trump has urged Zelenskyy to accept a land swap deal with Russia after meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday.

Ahead of the meeting, Trump appeared to place the onus of ending the war on the Ukrainian leader, while emphasizing that Ukraine must give up Russian-annexed Crimea and its hopes of joining NATO — key Kremlin demands.

The presence of several European leaders at the talks in Washington shows how central the conflict — and any settlement — is to wider security questions

The White House has asked Ukrainian officials whether President Volodymyr Zelenskyy would wear a suit to his meeting with US President Donald Trump in the Oval Office on 18 August. Source: Axios, citing two sources directly familiar with the matter,

Retired U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Douglas Lute, who also served as an ambassador to NATO, discusses Monday's upcoming White House meeting between the two world leaders.

The Ukrainian president will be joined at the White House on Monday by several key European leaders, as they look to find an end to the war between Russia and Ukraine.

Situation is made even more tenuous by the memory of his last visit to the White House in February that erupted into a bitter exchange between Zelenskyy and Trump and led to a halt in military support

As President Donald Trump prepares for the high stakes meeting on Monday with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, back home in Boston, Ukrainians don't feel optimistic.