I’ll get it done,” the US president says ahead of peace talks with Ukraine’s president at 13:00 EST (18:00 BST).

President Donald Trump made some false claims to the press while meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House on Monday – including a long-debunked claim that the US has given Ukraine more than $300 billion in wartime aid.

President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine said that a full prisoner exchange was also essential to ending the war. Other European leaders also expressed their support for a cease-fire.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said his bilateral meeting with US President Donald Trump in the Oval Office on Monday was "very good" and "constructive," as European leaders met with the US leader to discuss security guarantees for Kiev.

President Zelensky said he is open to holding an election in his country, though cited challenges during the war. “Yes, of course,” Zelensky said in response to a question from a reporter. He said one couldn’t happen during war but the goal is to “make possible for people to do democratic,

The Ukrainian leader said Russia can only be ‘forced’ into peace through strength and that he’s looking for President Donald Trump to provide it.

It has been rightly said that what President Trump wants President Zelensky to do would be very bad for Ukraine. Less has been said about how Zelensky could not do the sort of thing Trump put to him on Monday in Washington,

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is returning to the White House, where he will be briefed on President Trump’s Alaska summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin.