European leaders discuss Ukraine security guarantees after Trump talks

Leaders continue flurry of diplomacy amid uncertainty over whether Putin-Zelenskyy meeting will be agreed

What security guarantees might Ukraine get in return for a peace deal?

As western leaders meet, questions remain about the steps they could take to prevent any future Russian aggression

Zelenskyy gave Ukraine war veteran’s golf club as gift to Trump

US president handed Ukrainian leader symbolic keys to the White House in return during meeting in Washington

UK to offer troops to defend Ukraine’s skies and ports in Pentagon talks

Officials say UK not prepared to deploy troops to frontline with Russia as head of armed forces prepares to meet US counterparts in Washington

‘It would be a terrible loss’: Ukrainian frontline troops sceptical of ceding land

Near Dobropillia new trenches are visible, drone attacks continue and there is no sign of the fighting easing

First Thing: Trump rules out sending US troops to Ukraine to enforce peace deal

President says US may provide air support to Kyiv as part of security guarantees. Plus, the boy who founded his own country

Russia says it must be part of international talks on Ukraine’s security

Foreign minister Sergei Lavrov dismisses European diplomacy as ‘clumsy effort to sway Trump’

European leaders scramble to shield Ukraine in high-stakes Trump talks – but did they?

The shifting loyalties of the White House have inadvertently bound Europe closer together, how long can that unity last?

Trump steps back from Russia and Ukraine peace talks for now, sources say

US president told top advisers trilateral meeting would take place after leaders of the two countries have met first

Italian police arrest Ukrainian man over Nord Stream pipelines blast

Serhiy K is believed to have been onboard boat from where 2022 attack on gas pipelines was carried out

Ukraine attacks pipeline that sends Russian oil to Hungary and Slovakia

Hungary’s foreign minister claims missile strike on energy infrastructure is ‘another attempt to drag us into war’

Prigozhin knew he was ‘doomed’ after failed rebellion, says mother

Violetta Prigozhina, 85, says she warned her son not to defy Putin’s authority before he was killed in a plane crash

Trump again mulls Russia sanctions as Ukraine peace remains elusive one week after Alaska summit

Russia’s foreign minister says no meeting planned between Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy

Family of UK aid volunteer reportedly killed in Ukraine ‘disappointed’ by Foreign Office

Relatives of Annie Lewis Marffy in ‘red-tape limbo’ over recovery of her body and issuing of death certificate

Russia accuses Ukraine of strike on nuclear plant in wave of drone attacks

Moscow says damage to Kursk power plant has forced 50% reduction in reactor’s operating capacity

Russia says Europe’s leaders don’t want peace in Ukraine as Vance says US will keep trying

Russian foreign minister praises Trump’s effort and was defensive when asked if Putin was ‘stringing along’ Trump

Pentagon has blocked Ukraine from striking deep inside Russia – report

Wall Street Journal says move is part of Trump administration’s effort to get Putin into peace talks

Finland builds fence at eastern frontier, now a critical Nato border with Russia

In North Karelia the border guard is training conscripts, the only road crossing is empty – but there is still some limited cross-border cooperation

Poland’s president vetoes legislation to prolong benefits for Ukrainian refugees

Karol Nawrocki says only Ukrainians in work should receive child benefit payments in Poland

Woody Allen rebuts Ukrainian condemnation over Moscow film festival appearance

The director said he did not ‘feel cutting off artistic conversations is ever a good way to help’ after Ukraine calls the film-maker’s participation a ‘disgrace’