Are European leaders travelling to the White House to prevent Trump from bullying Zelenskyy?

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is headed to Washington, DC, today (August 18), and he will be accompanied by European leaders, including Germany’s Friedrich Merz, the UK’s Keir Starmer, and France’s Emmanuel Macron. The meeting at the White House comes after US President Donald Trump met Russia’s Vladimir Putin in Alaska last Friday. But why is Zelenskyy going with an influential entourage?

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