The White House appeared to cover up Donald Trump’s cankles in an official photo from his meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office on Monday. The 79-year-old president’s swollen ankles were hard to miss as his slacks crept up his shin while sitting down with Zelensky,

For Europe’s leaders, the White House meeting was about optics as much as substance: a chance to undo any ground Russia's Vladimir Putin may have gained with Trump in Alaska.

On Sunday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who sat in on the meetings with Mr. Putin at the American air base outside of Anchorage, disputed the idea that the Europeans were coming as a posse to protect Mr. Zelensky from a repeat of the February shouting match.

In a TV interview, the U.S. president suggested European nations would have troops on the ground in Ukraine, while the United States would support them in other ways.