President Donald Trump ‘s face-to-face high-stakes summit with President Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Friday could determine the fate of European security as well as the trajectory of the war in Ukraine. The exclusion of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy already deals a heavy blow to the West’s policy of “nothing about Ukraine without Ukraine.”

U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin are talking face-to-face to discuss what it would take to end the war in Ukraine. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will not be present.