13 h. ago Putin given the red carpet treatment as he discusses Trump talks with Xi on sidelines of China summit

Putin, Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Indian prime minister Narendra Modi are among the 20 leaders meeting in China for a security summit

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1 week ago The Guardian view on Trump and Zelenskyy: Ukraine deserves better than 'better than we feared' | Editorial

In Washington, European leaders helped steer the US president away from his embrace of Vladimir Putin’s talking points. But for how long?The verdict on Donald Trump’s meeting with Volodymyr Zelenskyy and other European leaders on Monday depends entirely upon the metric used. The great fear was that this might prove a disaster along the lines of the US president’s dressing down of the Ukrainian leader in February – a scenario so plausible that Sir Keir Starmer, Emmanuel Macron, Friedrich Merz and other key European leaders dropped everything to dash to the White House themselves in support.Following his red carpet welcome for Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Friday, Mr Trump reportedly backed the idea that Ukraine should hand over the Donbas to achieve a peace deal. Even if one were naive enough to think that the Kremlin would see that as an end to conflict, rather than a staging post for a later offensive, it would not be a “land swap” but a land grab that Ukraine – for go...

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1 week ago Trump takes playful swipe at Emmanuel Macron as he debuts oddly dyed hair for crucial White House talks

President Donald Trump went around a table to laud European leaders after rolling out a red carpet for Vladimir Putin, saying France's Macron 'someone who's been with me from the beginning.'

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1 week ago Trump's day of reckoning as leaders stand with Zelensky after humiliating Putin talks

Sir Keir Starmer and other European leaders arrive in Washington to stand united with Volodymyr Zelensky as he faces a US president who, just days earlier, extended a red carpet welcome to Vladimir Putin

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2 w. ago Zelenskyy’s Oval Office mission: court Trump and secure Ukraine’s future

European allies will join White House meeting days after Putin’s red carpet welcome in Alaska

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2 w. ago Ukrainians left disappointed at Trump rolling out red carpet for ‘tyrant’ Putin

Ukrainians have reacted with anger to the welcome received by Russian president Vladimir Putin as he arrived in Alaska for a summit with his US counterpart Donald Trump on Friday (15 Aug).

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2 w. ago Furious Ukrainians defy US moves to sell them out.... as Putin's missiles continue to rain down and Trump goes for a round of golf, a sense of doom descends on Kyiv

Amid anger at seeing the red carpet rolled out for Vladimir Putin in Alaska , many citizens spoke of growing concern that tomorrow's talks in Washington could result in catastrophe for Ukraine.

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2 w. ago Desperate Ukrainians beg the US not to sell them out... as Putin's missiles continue to rain down and Trump goes for a round of golf, a sense of doom descends of Kyiv

Amid anger at seeing the red carpet rolled out for Vladimir Putin in Alaska , many citizens spoke of growing concern that tomorrow's talks in Washington could result in catastrophe for Ukraine.

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2 w. ago Donald Trump tells Ukraine's president to 'get a deal done' with Vladimir Putin

Trump rolled out the red carpet for Putin during a historic meeting with his Russian counterpart in Alaska on Friday in the hopes of reaching an agreement to end the war in Ukraine.

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2 w. ago Backlash in Washington as Trump gives Putin a red carpet welcome in Alaska

First meeting since full-scale invasion of Ukraine three years ago attracts criticism from the president’s allies

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2 w. ago Trump rolls out red carpet for Putin as Ukrainians watch from afar

US president’s warm Alaska greeting brings Russian leader in from the cold

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2 w. ago Donald Trump 'whispers "I'll help you" to Vladimir Putin' before meeting in major WW3 warning

Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin participated in a red carpet greeting on Friday afternoon, with the US President receiving sharp criticism for the glowing reception, sparking further fears of WW3

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2 w. ago Trump rolls out the red carpet for Putin as leaders shake hands on Alaska tarmac and ride to summit together

The two leaders greeted one another like friends as they shook hands and patted each other’s backs in a historic moment in Alaska

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2 w. ago Putin gets 'red carpet' treatment as he lands in US for first time in 10 years to meet Trump

Mad Vlad has touched down on US soil for the first time since he spoke at the 2015 United Nations General Assembly in New York and shook hands with then-US President Barrack Obama

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