Donald Trump meets Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday as patience wears thin on Russia, at a UN summit where the US president is expected to offer a dark take on the future of the world body.

Trump will address the United Nations for the first time since he returned to office and quickly took to slashing the US role in international organizations.

It will be Trump's second time seeing Zelensky since the US leader invited Russian President Vladimir Putin on August 15 to Alaska, a meeting that broke Moscow's isolation in the West but yielded no breakthrough on Ukraine.

Russia has not only kept up its barrage of attacks on Ukraine in the past month but has increasingly raised fears in the West, with drone or air incursions in NATO members Poland, Estonia and Romania.

Mike Walt

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