Sidelined in the Alaska summit, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has warned US President Donald Trump against deception by Vladimir Putin. The warning came as he and European partners pressed Trump to not give a free pass to the Russian leader.

After famously vowing to end the war within a single day, Trump is rolling the dice on a high-stakes face-to-face summit meeting with Russia’s Vladimir Putin in Alaska that he hopes can

Citing a report from his intelligence and military commands, Zelenskyy said in a statement that Putin "is definitely not preparing for a ceasefire or an end to the war. Putin is determined only to present a meeting with America as his personal victory and then continue acting exactly as before, applying the same pressure on Ukraine as before."