“Donald Trump does not plan to meet Volodymyr Zelensky during the Ukrainian president’s trip to the United States, despite indicating last week that he likely would meet with the foreign leader,” Reuters reports.
“It was not clear whether the two leaders ever formally set a date for an encounter. But the chances of a meeting went down substantially after Zelensky traveled to a munitions factory in Pennsylvania on Sunday alongside the state’s Democratic governor, Josh Shapiro.
”The AP reports Trump described Ukraine in bleak and mournful terms, referring to its people as “dead” and the country itself as “demolished.”