Don rules out sending US troops to Ukraine

Despite flurry of meetings on Russia's war in Ukraine, little concrete progress on the main obstacles to ending the war

- By Siddhartha

The second Oval Office meeting in six months between US President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy went off smoothly Monday, in sharp contrast to their disastrous encounter in February.

European leaders joined the discussions in a show of transatlantic unity, and both they and Zelenskyy repeatedly thanked Trump for his efforts to end Russia's three-year war on Ukraine.