White House, Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy
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RUSSIA-UKRAINE BILATERAL: President Donald Trump announced yesterday that Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy would hold a bilateral meeting in the coming days. That would be followed by a trilateral meeting with Trump and those two leaders. Trump held a summit with Putin in Alaska on Friday.
Zelenskyy's outfit instead appeared to show an attempt to strike a middle ground between independence and receptivity to Trump.
Trump’s appraisal of the Ukrainian president has been an exercise in zigzag diplomacy as their relationship has unfolded since Trump's first term.
After being attacked for not wearing a suit during his previous White House visit, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky wore a military-style suit on Aug. 19.