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Trump to Welcome Poland’s Right-Wing President to White House

The meeting between President Trump and Poland’s largely ceremonial president, Karol Nawrocki, highlights divisions within the biggest economic and military power on the European Union’s eastern fringe.

© Lukasz Glowala/Reuters

Poland’s right-wing president, Karol Nawrocki, is set to meet with President Trump on Wednesday in the White House.
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Trump to Welcome Poland’s Right-Wing President to White House

The meeting between President Trump and Poland’s largely ceremonial president, Karol Nawrocki, highlights divisions within the biggest economic and military power on the European Union’s eastern fringe.

© Lukasz Glowala/Reuters

Poland’s right-wing president, Karol Nawrocki, is set to meet with President Trump on Wednesday in the White House.
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Putin Sees Ukraine Through a Lens of Grievance Over Lost Glory

Speaking after Friday’s summit, President Putin again implied that the war is all about Russia’s diminished status since the fall of the Soviet Union.

© Doug Mills/The New York Times

President Vladimir Putin during a news conference at Joint Base Elmendorf Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska, on Friday.
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Russia and Ukraine Agree: A Trump Summit Is a Big Win for Putin

The talks on Friday in Alaska pull the Russian leader out of diplomatic isolation from the West, and Ukrainian and European leaders fear it gives him an opening to sway the American president.

© Nanna Heitmann for The New York Times

A summit meeting with President Trump is widely seen as a victory for President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, even if no agreements are reached.
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