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How the coverage framed it

Coverage of this story was largely uniform across outlets, with a bias spread of just 0.0 points and no headline scoring beyond +0.6. All three outlets framed the story around straightforward diplomatic action, using neutral verbs such as Axios's "meet," the Financial Times's "presses," and the Times of London's "tells." The modest variation that does exist is tonal rather than ideological: Axios took the broadest framing, situating the meeting within the wider context of intensifying attacks, while the Financial Times and Times of London narrowed their focus to Trump's specific directive regarding Russian oil refineries. The Times of London's use of quotation marks around "tells Zelensky to stop hitting Putin's oil refineries" signals attributed rather than asserted reporting, a minor stylistic difference with no meaningful ideological weight. No outlet employed loaded adjectives or partisan framing.