Trump Will Not Hold Bilateral Meeting with Zelensky at G7, Only Working Session Planned

Analysis
Trump and Zelensky will likely meet informally on the sidelines before the summit concludes on June 17, though Zelensky's bilateral exclusion exposes Ukraine's reduced priority relative to Gulf and South Asian partners. We have high confidence in this assessment; officials explicitly acknowledged the possibility, and three days of shared proceedings place both leaders in recurring proximity. The Iran war has redefined which leaders receive direct Trump access since late February; Macron, Qatar, UAE, Egypt, and India each hold bilateral slots while Ukraine holds a multilateral one. The senior official's claim that Russian gains have "more or less stopped" merits separate tracking; should Washington promote that framing at Evian, Kyiv loses the urgency needed to extract new aid commitments from G7 partners.