2025-08-14
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Thursday, August 14th, I'm Azhar Sukri for The Wall Street Journal.
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The world's attention will be focused on tomorrow's summit in Alaska between President Trump and his Russian counterpart to discuss a possible end to the war in Ukraine.
Its president, Volodymyr Zelensky, is not invited to the Trump-Putin meeting.
He's been in discussions with European leaders and is in London for a meeting with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
Matthew Luxmore, it's the journal Foreign Correspondent.
Matthew, what is Zelensky hoping that Trump and Putin will agree to in their summit?
Well, in many ways, Zelensky is hoping they agree to nothing.
Zelensky doesn't want anything to be agreed about Ukraine without Ukraine's involvement.
He's really rallied European leaders, the world leaders,
since this summit was announced to try and get them to prevail on Trump and get him to agree to essentially...
not agree on anything with Putin when it comes to Ukraine.