Trump officials defended the president’s peace push after meeting Putin, calling progress “game-changing” ahead of Zelensky’s visit to Washington.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will be coming into Monday’s White House meeting with President Donald Trump with a demand that could be a dealbreaker in terms of reaching any lasting peace arrangement with Russia.

On Sunday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who sat in on the meetings with Mr. Putin at the American air base outside of Anchorage, disputed the idea that the Europeans were coming as a posse to protect Mr. Zelensky from a repeat of the February shouting match.