How Zelensky Made Progress With Trump
By Michael Schwirtz, Claire Hogan and Nikolay Nikolov on August 19, 2025
United States Politics And GovernmentPresident Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine had a remarkably different White House visit on Monday than the ambush he walked into six months ago. Michael Schwirtz, the global intelligence correspondent for The New York Times, explains how President Zelensky courted President Trump and managed to put the ball back in Vladimir V. Putin’s court.