{"id":17173,"date":"2025-12-28T18:20:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T18:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/zelensky-ahead-of-trump-meeting-a-lot-can-be-decided-before-the-new-year\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T18:20:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T18:20:22","slug":"zelensky-ahead-of-trump-meeting-a-lot-can-be-decided-before-the-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/zelensky-ahead-of-trump-meeting-a-lot-can-be-decided-before-the-new-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelensky ahead of Trump meeting: &#8216;A lot can be decided before the New Year&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky expressed optimism ahead of Sunday&rsquo;s meeting with President Trump, underscoring the critical moment before the new year to make progress on peace talks. He said the prospects for peace rest on the willingness of Ukraine&rsquo;s allies to increase pressure on Russia. &ldquo;These are some of the most active diplomatic days of&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/international\/5664610-zelensky-optimistic-trump-meeting\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky expressed optimism ahead of Sunday&rsquo;s meeting with President Trump, underscoring the critical moment before the new year to make progress on peace talks. He said the prospects for peace rest on the willingness of Ukraine&rsquo;s allies to increase pressure on Russia. &ldquo;These are some of the most active diplomatic days of&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17174,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}