A carnival float depicts Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy using a love hammer on Russia's President Vladimir Putin at the presentation of this year's satirical carnival floats for the Rose Monday

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy traveled to the United Arab Emirates late Sunday as momentum grows for potential peace talks ending Moscow's war on the country. U.S. President Donald Trump last week suggested he would be meeting Russian President Vladimir Putin in Saudi Arabia.

Sen.Thom Tillis (R-NC) pushed back on President Donald Trump’s comments blaming Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for the war in Ukraine, and issued a warning that Russian President Vladimir Putin is a “cancer” that cannot be given “any space.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy traveled to the United Arab Emirates late Sunday as momentum grows for potential peace talks ending Moscow’s war on the country. U.S. President Donald Trump last week suggested he would be meeting Russian President Vladimir Putin in Saudi Arabia.

Trump is also making his second administration's first forays on the diplomatic front with calls to Russia's Vladimir Putin and Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelenskyy on ending the 3-year-old war that began in February 2022 when Russia invaded Ukraine.

Trump called Ukraine’s president a dictator, then pretended never to have called him any such thing. Because it’s never too soon to rewrite history. From Melinda Hennebeger:

Ukrainian President Zelenskyy and President Trump will be signing an agreement giving the U.S. access to Ukraine's mineral resources.

Before President Zelensky arrived at the White House, President Trump - who waited briefly outside before greeting his Ukrainian counterpart - was asked by a reporter if he felt it was going to be a good meeting. Trump gave no words in response, and flashed a thumbs-up instead.

But showing Trump pictures of war atrocities and referring to President Vladimir Putin, Zelenskyy said there should be “no compromises with a killer on our territory”. “Crazy Russians,” he said, had deported Ukrainian children and committed war crimes during their three-year invasion of his country.

Trump has been deeply critical of the Ukrainian president in recent days while offering friendlier words about his Russian counterpart.