European leaders to speak with Trump ahead of his Friday summit with Putin
BERLIN (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will join German Chancellor Friedrich Merz in Berlin on Wednesday for talks with European and U. S. leaders ahead of a Trump-Putin summit later this week, the German government said. Merz has convened a series of virtual meetings for Wednesday in an attempt to have the voice of European and Ukraine’s leaders heard ahead of the summit in Alaska, where President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin are expected to discuss a a...
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