john: good evening, i'm john yang.ht, washington and european capitals are still feeling the reverberations of yesterday's heated oval office exchange between president trump and ukrainian president volodymyr zelensky. hours after mr. trump scolded zelensky for not showing enough appreciation for u.s. support, the ukrainian leader posted on x: we are very grateful to the united states for all the support. i'm thankful to president trump, congress for their bipartisan support, and american people. he also reiterated his opposition to a quick-cease fire that president trump wants, saying russian leader vladimir putin can't be trusted. now he is in london to rally support of european leaders and yesterday he met u.k. prime minister keir starmer and tomorrow, he'll attend a summit in london to discuss the way forward. kurt volker is a former u.s. special envoy to ukraine and former u.s. ambassador to nato. what do you expect to come out of this european summit tomorrow that zelensky is attending? mr. volker: there are good

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