New Delhi, June 15 -- EVIAN-LES-BAINS, France - Volodymyr Zelensky is flying to the French Alps for a Group of Seven summit in which the United States government has made no plans to sit down with him privately. His country is not listed among the American goals for the meeting. The war that has consumed Ukraine for more than four years is described by the White House as a "top priority," but the phrase does not appear anywhere in the schedule of one-on-one meetings that will define what Donald Trump actually does here.

a deal. The agreement announced Sunday that he says will open the Strait of Hormuz to commercial shipping handed the president a claim to achievement before the summit had even convened. About 20 percent of the world's oi...