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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Sam Kiley

Is Zelensky about to walk into another White House ambush after Trump’s Putin meeting?

The free world’s most celebrated president is showing some mettle in agreeing to a meeting with the leader of the free world. When Volodymyr Zelensky walks into the Oval Office on Monday, he knows he’s risking another ambush.

The Ukrainian president is prepared to gamble that he’ll get another White House schoolyard bullying session, because there’s a slim chance that Donald Trump may finally have tired of being played by the Kremlin.

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