Trump and Putin met at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska on Friday afternoon to discuss an end to Russia’s war on Ukraine, which began more than three years ago. The pair announced “great progress” had been made, but they still did not reach any kind of plan to end the war.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz is optimistic that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's meeting on Monday at the White House will not go the way the last one did. An extraordinary, unprecedented scene unfolded at that meeting at the end of February,