Volodymyr Zelensky didn’t want to go to Davos. Why bother showing up at the World Economic Forum to watch world leaders swarm around Donald Trump and his obsession with Danish-controlled Greenland? The Arctic spectacle has stolen the spotlight from the war in Ukraine, and Zelensky could not bear the thought of returning empty-handed while his country struggled to survive the freezing winter. ‘I choose Ukraine in this case, rather than the economic forum,’ Zelensky said on Tuesday after another Russian attack deepened the country’s energy crisis. That was until Trump announced he wanted to talk to the Ukrainian President one-on-one. 

Their one-hour meeting yesterday ended with little to show for it. Zelensky said they had agreed a deal on post-war security guarantees which Trump has refused to sign until the war ends. There was no progress on the £600 billion ‘prosperity plan’ between Ukraine, the US and Europe, which had........

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