It is quite possible that Monday's meeting in the White House could prove even more crucial to the future of Ukraine - and for all of Europe's security - than last Friday's US-Russia summit in Alaska. On the surface, that Putin-Trump reunion seemed to live down to every expectation.

Trump met with Ukraine's president and other European leaders. The DOJ will begin sharing Epstein-related files with Congress on Friday. The latest: House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer said his committee will start receiving the government's records on Jeffrey Epstein at the end of this week.

Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky and European leaders including Sir Keir Starmer will meet Donald Trump in Washington on Monday to map out a peace deal amid fears the US president could try to pressure Kyiv into accepting a settlement favourable to Russia.