Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy firmly rejects Russian President Vladimir Putin's demands to cede the Donbas region, citing sovereignty concerns and the area's critical economic and strategic importance.

President Trump seeks to broker a meeting of the two leaders to end Europe’s most destructive war in generations.

The Drudge Report resurrected a 12-year-old tweet by President Trump asking whether Vladimir Putin 'will become my new best friend' ahead of a 2013 Moscow trip.

The White House says that Vladimir Putin told President Trump that he would meet with the man whose country Russia invaded, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. It comes as Trump is ruling out sending U.

President Trump met with Russian president Vladimir Putin last week to discuss a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine, but came away thinking it wasn’t necessary and once again praising Putin. But there was at least one thing Trump said that “wasn’t crazy,” according to Lawrence O’Donnell.

Zelensky talks puts Kremlin in a bind: accept and legitimise Kyiv’s leader or refuse and face fresh US sanctions. Read here

A summit in Paris six years ago was the first and only time the two presidents ever met, flanked by French president Emmanuel Macron and Germany’s then-chancellor Angela Merkel. At the time, Putin and Zelensky were looking to hash out a ceasefire deal for war in Donbas in Ukraine’s east, where Russia-backed forces were fighting Ukrainian troops.

After a meeting at the White House on Monday, the French president said that if there is no progress in talks, Russia should be hit with more sanctions.