This is The Guardian.
Today, why are Trump and Putin meeting in Alaska?
So I spent the last couple of weeks in Kiev and I think What we've seen over the last few months is Russia really ramping up the number of drones,
the number of missiles it's able to send into Ukraine.
The capital, Kyiv, was once reasonably safe, had much stronger air defences than other cities,
and you could feel in the centre of Kyiv more or less safe.
That's been less so in recent months.
The Guardian's Sean Walker has just returned from a reporting trip to Ukraine,
one of many over the last three and a half years.
One of the first days I was there, there was a whole bunch of missiles that got through.
One of them directly impacted a residential building.
31 people were killed.
And I think that there has been this building sense that people are ready somehow to bring a stop to this,
even in an imperfect way.
For Ukrainians desperate for an end to the punishing war, last week brought worrying news.
President Trump announcing he will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin this coming Friday in Alaska.
It will be the first in-person meeting between leaders of the U.S. and Russia
since Moscow launched its deadly 2022 invasion of Ukraine.
A summit in Alaska this Friday between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump on a possible ceasefire deal,
with Vladimir Zelensky not at the table.