At what was billed as an “historic” presidential summit, hastily put together in Alaska on Friday afternoon, the optics were as clear and overshadowing as the vast Chugach mountains glistening over Anchorage in the summer sun.

Trump: “President Zelensky can end the war with Russia almost immediately, if he wants to, or he can continue to fight."

Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) said President Trump was “completely played” by Russian President Vladimir Putin at the leaders’ historic summit in Alaska on Friday. In an interview on “CNN

Ukraine’s Donbas, consisting of Donetsk and Luhansk, is at the heart of Moscow’s goals. An industrial powerhouse in the Soviet era, it also has rich farmland, important rivers and a coastline on the Sea of Azov.

European leaders are to join the Ukrainian president during a visit that seeks a path to ending the war between Ukraine and Russia.

In Alaska, the Russian leader proposed that Ukraine hand over the remainder of the Donbas region to Moscow to stop the fighting.

President Donald Trump is due to meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, along with a number of European leaders, in Washington D.C. later on Monday.

President Trump is set to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and European leaders on Monday following his controversial meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska on