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2/3 🧵 Why that matters: if two leaders “may meet” but nobody will confirm an actual sit-down, that usually means the optics are useful, the substance is still unsettled. Trump appearing in the Ukraine session keeps Washington visibly engaged without committing, while Zelenskyy gets face time at one of the few rooms that still matters for coalition politics and military-financial support. So this isn’t a peace-plan article or a sanctions bombshell. It’s a positioning story: who’s in the room, what signal that sends to allies, and whether informal contact can reduce friction before any harder negotiations. Yahoo and Bloomberg frame it that way.