Britain sought to keep Europe in the loop ahead of a U.S.-Russia summit on Ukraine with a highly publicized meeting between Keir Starmer and Volodymyr Zelensky.

Trump and Putin met at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska on Friday afternoon to discuss an end to Russia’s war on Ukraine, which began more than three years ago. The pair announced “great progress” had been made, but they still did not reach any kind of plan to end the war.

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, co-chairs of the coalition, will be included in the virtual meeting.

US President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky are set to meet in Washington on Monday. It will mark the first time President Zelensky will set foot on US soil since their last Oval Office meeting descended into an extraordinary row over Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz is optimistic that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's meeting on Monday at the White House will not go the way the last one did. An extraordinary, unprecedented scene unfolded at that meeting at the end of February,

President Trump proclaimed Friday he and Russian President Vladimir Putin made “great progress” toward ending Moscow’s war on Ukraine after meeting for nearly three hours in

Before the high-stakes meeting in Alaska, securing an immediate halt to hostilities had been a key objective for Trump, who had earlier warned of severe consequences for Russia, as well as for European leaders and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky,

The one-day summit left little to show for Trump as there appeared to be no breakthrough with Russia on a ceasefire deal in the over three-year war.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned that Russian President Vladimir Putin will benefit the most from Friday’s high stakes meeting with President Trump in Alaska. “I believe

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