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listening to your local NPR member station and visiting npr.org. Thanks for listening. Enjoy the show. Just days after literally rolling out the red carpet for Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska,

President Trump sat down with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House

to talk about the conditions of a peace deal.

I believe a peace agreement at the end of all of this is something that's very attainable,

and it can be done in the near future.

With all of the wars that I got involved in, we only have this one left.

Of course, as I walk out the door, there'll probably be a new one starting, and I'll get that stop, too.

But I thought this was going to be one of the easier ones.

It's actually one of the most difficult.

This time, Zelensky wasn't publicly berated by a tag teaming Donald Trump and J.D. Vance.

Instead, Ukraine's leader gestured and dressed in a way that seemed to please the president.

And this time, leaders from some of the largest European countries and the EU itself

joins Zelensky at the White House in a show of solidarity and presidential personality management.

The talks are pivotal to Ukraine's future three and a half years after Vladimir Putin's

unprovoked invasion. Pressure from the United States is mounting for Ukraine to cede territory to Russia to end the

war even without a ceasefire deal that just last week, Trump said, was non-negotiable.

He since changed his mind.

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