The US and Russia are in talks aimed at ending the war in Ukraine. Ukraine hasn’t been invited to the talks. Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky has said he won’t recognise a peace deal that is negotiated without his country being involved in the negotiation.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer's visit reflects Europe's concern over Trump's push to end the war in Ukraine and concede too much to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Witkoff, Trump’s top negotiator, said the U.S. would be looking to talks from early in the war as a basis for a deal. Ukraine’s supporters saw it as an embrace of a Kremlin talking point.