Zelenskyy and European leaders to speak to Trump ahead of Putin summit

Trump agreed last week to the first US-Russia summit since 2021

Ukraine hopes the meeting will serve - at least partially - as a European counterweight to the summit in Alaska. File Picture: AP Photo/Vadym Sarakhan

European and Ukrainian leaders will speak to US President Donald Trump at a virtual meeting on Wednesday ahead of his summit with Russia's Vladimir Putin, as they try to drive home the perils of selling out Kyiv's interests in pursuit of a ceasefire.

Mr Trump hosts Mr Putin, a pariah in the West since Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine, at talks in Alaska on Friday that the US president has said will serve as a "feel-out" meeting in his efforts to end the Russo-Ukraine war.