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At least ten people were killed overnight in Russian missile strikes in Kharkiv, according to Ukrainian officials. Three people died and nearly 20 were injured in a separate attack on the city of Zaporizhzhia, in southern Ukraine. Russian shelling also killed four people in the Donetsk region.<\/p>\n
Zelensky presents united front with European leaders<\/p>\n
Zelensky has said Ukraine is \u201cready for the establishment of a new security architecture\u201d in a social media post before the meeting.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe understand that we should not expect Putin to abandon aggression and new attempts at aggression on his own,\u201d Zelensky said. \u201cTherefore, pressure must work, and it must be joint pressure \u2014 the US and Europe, everyone in the world who respects the right to life and the international order.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe must stop the killings, and I thank our partners who are working for this and, ultimately, for a reliable and dignified peace. Together with the leaders of Finland, Great Britain, Italy, the European Commission and the Nato secretary-general, we coordinated our positions before the meeting with President Trump.\u201d<\/p>\n
Starmer arrives at White House<\/p>\n
The prime minister was greeted by Monica Crowley, the White House chief of protocol<\/p>\n
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Sir Keir Starmer has arrived at the White House.<\/p>\n
The prime minister is among the European leaders arriving for the peace talks with President Trump and President Zelensky.<\/p>\n
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Make Rutter, the Nato secretary-general, preceded Giorgia Meloni of Italy, below<\/p>\n
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European leaders have been greeted by a military guard of honour as they begin arriving at the South Lawn of the White House.<\/p>\n
Mark Rutte, the Nato secretary-general, was the first to arrive at the South Portico, where the leaders will enter the White House for meetings. The delegation also includes Sir Keir Starmer; President Macron of France; Friedrich Merz of Germany; Giorgia Meloni of Italy; President Stubb of Finland; and Ursula von der Leyen, the European Commission president.<\/p>\n
Uniformed troops stood at attention holding the flags of each US state as the leaders arrived.<\/p>\n
President Zelensky is due to arrive for a bilateral meeting with Trump and JD Vance, the vice-president, at about 1.15pm ET (6.15pm BST). Trump is expected to participate in a multilateral meeting with European leaders later in the afternoon.<\/p>\n
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President Zelensky was criticised by some American observers for wearing military fatigues in the Oval Office. Below: his choice of clothing for a Nato summit in June<\/p>\n
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President Zelensky will wear a military-style suit for today\u2019s high-stakes meeting, according to one of the Ukrainian president\u2019s designers.<\/p>\n
Elvira Gasanova told Politico that Zelensky\u2019s attire would be in keeping with the head of state of a country at war. \u201cIt is important to emphasise that it is Volodymyr Zelensky<\/a> who personally decides what to wear,\u201d she said. \u201cThe president is now in a state where every detail matters \u2014 his appearance, mood, emotions. Therefore, as the leader of Ukraine, he chooses the image that best suits his role and moment.\u201d<\/p>\n Zelensky\u2019s choice of his signature black military-style outfit during his meeting with Trump in February drew criticism from some quarters.<\/p>\n Russian soldier recruitment rate plummets Russian soldiers carry a drone in an undisclosed location<\/p>\n RUSSIAN DEFENCE MINISTRY\/AP<\/p>\n Russia\u2019s recruitment rate of soldiers to be sent to fight in Ukraine has fallen to its lowest level in two years. According to official data, 38,000 people signed military contracts in the second half of 2025, two and a half times fewer than during the same period last year, when 93,000 enlisted.<\/p>\n Russia introduced generous financial incentives in the summer of 2023 to bolster the ranks of its army, before which the recruitment rate stood at just over 20,000 per quarter. An annual salary of 5.2 million roubles (\u00a348,000) is offered to new recruits along with a signing-up fee of 1.9 million roubles (\u00a317,500). The average salary in Russia is just under 1.1 million roubles (\u00a39,900) a year.<\/p>\n Both sides have sought to talk up their own respective military positions. Russia has made several claims to battlefield advances in recent weeks, which Ukraine says are overstated.<\/p>\n Trump, Putin and \u2018rigged elections\u2019 ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS\/AFP\/GETTY IMAGES<\/p>\n Trump, who says he and Putin discussed mail-in voting during their summit in Alaska on Friday, vowed this morning to \u201cfight like hell\u201d to end the practice in US elections. <\/p>\n \u201cVladimir Putin said something \u2014 one of the most interesting things,\u201d Trump told Fox News after the summit. \u201cHe said: \u2018Your election was rigged because you have mail-in voting.’\u201d<\/p>\n In a Truth Social post today Trump wrote: \u201cThe mail-in ballot hoax, using voting machines that are a complete and total disaster, must end, now!!!\u201d<\/p>\n \u2022 Read in full: <\/b>Trump attacks mail-in voting after \u2018rigged election\u2019 talk with Putin<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n Putin \u2018will invade the Baltics next\u2019<\/p>\n A former foreign minister of Russia has warned that Putin could invade the Baltic states next, if the West cannot repel his military aggression.<\/p>\n Andrey Kozyrev, who served under Boris Yeltsin in the 1990s, told Times Radio: \u201cPutin wants to be a conqueror of Ukraine and of many other countries in Europe, which was signalled by Lavrov, the foreign minister who came to Alaska in a sweater with USSR on it.<\/p>\n Sergey Lavrov, left, arrived in Anchorage with the Russian letters for USSR on his jumper<\/p>\n \u201cProbably he wanted to warn Americans, knowing that it would be shown all over the world, that it\u2019s not just an ambition of Putin to take a piece of Ukraine or stop somewhere there or the whole Ukraine. His ambition is to recreate, more or less, the Soviet Union. So next probably will be the Baltic states, which were also like Ukraine, inside the Soviet Union, considered integral parts of the Soviet Union and they are now in Nato.\u201d<\/p>\n About 800 members of the National Guard have already been mobilised and are patrolling federal buildings<\/p>\n JULIA DEMAREE NIKHINSON\/AP<\/p>\n Trump\u2019s visitors at the White House today arrive in a city to which the president has deployed some 800 National Guard troops \u2014 with 750 more expected to join them. <\/p>\n The Republican governors of Ohio, West Virginia and South Carolina have committed the soldiers to the Trump\u2019s efforts to tackle crime and expel homeless people from the capital. <\/p>\n \u2022 Read in full: <\/b>Republican governors \u2018double\u2019 National Guard presence in Washington<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n EU leaders to hold video conference after peace talks<\/p>\n European Union leaders will meet via video conference on Tuesday for an emergency debrief on Monday\u2019s talks with Trump in Washington.<\/p>\n Antonio Costa, the president of the European Council, has convened the meeting so President Macron of France, Friedrich Merz of Germany and other senior EU figures can brief other leaders on the outcome.<\/p>\n Starmer heads to Ukrainian embassy in Washington<\/p>\n Sir Keir Starmer has gone straight to the Ukrainian embassy after landing in the US. The prime minister will join the head of Nato, Mark Rutte, and the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, who were earlier seen arriving at the embassy.<\/p>\n Members of the media stand near ladders setup for the arrival of President Zelensky<\/p>\n ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS\/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES<\/p>\n What could Trump\u2019s \u2018Nato-style\u2019 security guarantee mean for Ukraine?<\/p>\n President Trump\u2019s proposal of a security guarantee for Ukraine could provide a breakthrough in peace negotiations, but may equally be a false dawn, experts warn.<\/p>\n President Zelensky and European leaders will press Trump on the specifics of his plan to deter future Russian aggression, during their hastily arranged meeting in Washington on Monday.<\/p>\n Zelensky has said that for the guarantee to work, it must deliver \u201cprotection on land, in the air and at sea, and must be developed with Europe\u2019s participation\u201d.<\/p>\n \u2022 Read in full: <\/b>What could Trump\u2019s \u2018Nato-style\u2019 security guarantee mean for Ukraine?<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n Trump fires shot at \u2018stupid\u2019 critics<\/p>\n In another Truth Social post, President Trump once again claimed the Russia-Ukraine war would not have happened if he had been in power.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m only here to stop it, not to prosecute it any further,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n \u201cIt would have NEVER happened if I was President. I know exactly what I\u2019m doing, and I don\u2019t need the advice of people who have been working on all of these conflicts for years, and were never able to do a thing to stop them.\u201d<\/p>\n In a posting that potentially offered hints as to the president\u2019s mood before today\u2019s all-important meeting, he fired a shot at his \u201ccritics\u201d, saying: \u201cThey are \u2018STUPID\u2019 people, with no common sense, intelligence, or understanding, and they only make the current R\/U disaster more difficult to FIX.\u201d<\/p>\n Brazil and India reiterate calls for peace<\/p>\n President Putin had conversations with three of his allies on Monday in which he discussed the recent meeting in Alaska with Donald Trump.<\/p>\n The Russian leader spoke over the phone to Narendra Modi, the prime minister of India; Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva, the president of Brazil; and Emomali Rahmon, the president of Tajikistan.<\/p>\n Both Modi and da Silva reiterated their calls for a peaceful end to the war in Ukraine, the Indian and Brazilian presidential offices said. The Kremlin said that Rahmon welcomed the peace talks.<\/p>\n All three countries are close allies to Russia, with India and Brazil part of the Brics group, and Tajikistan a member of the Russian-led Collective Security Treaty Organisation, a military alliance of former Soviet nations.<\/p>\n Sir Keir Starmer has landed in the US ahead of a meeting between President Zelensky, President Trump and other European leaders at the White House.<\/p>\n The prime minister arrived at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, the military airbase near the US capital that is frequently used by visiting dignitaries and by the president when he flies on Air Force One.<\/p>\n Zelensky: \u2018Western security guarantees\u2019 are most important topic<\/p>\n President Zelensky said he will discuss securing western security guarantees for Ukraine during today\u2019s meeting with President Trump and top European leaders.<\/p>\n \u201cWe will have time to speak about the architecture of security guarantees. This is, really, the most important,\u201d Zelensky during talks today with Trump\u2019s special envoy on Ukraine, Keith Kellogg.<\/p>\n Best guarantee of Ukraine security \u2018is a big, well-equipped army\u2019<\/p>\n Ukraine\u2019s defence minister has said that Russia would remain an \u201cexistential threat to the country for a long time, perhaps for ever\u201d even if a peace agreement was reached.<\/p>\n Denys Shmyhal, who was appointed to the role last month having served as prime minister for five years, said that the best guarantee of Ukrainian security would be a well-equipped and well-trained army.<\/p>\n He said that the country would need to maintain a standing army of roughly the size it is now \u2014 about 1 million active personnel \u2014 adding that discussions were being had with Western allies as to how many soldiers would be needed to defend the border with Russia. \u201c[The army] will not decrease in size sharply after the end of this war, it will be a very planned and calculated process and it will not be quick,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u2018It\u2019s in everyone\u2019s interest that we get this right,\u2019 says PM<\/p>\n Sir Keir Starmer has said \u201cwe\u2019ve got to get this right\u201d in a video posted en route to Washington DC.<\/p>\n In a social media clip filmed on the plane, the prime minister said: \u201cThis war in Ukraine has been going on for a really long time now, three-plus years. It\u2019s hugely impacted the Ukrainians who\u2019ve suffered hugely but it\u2019s also affected Europe \u2014 it\u2019s impacted every single family and community in the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd so everybody wants it to end, not least the Ukrainians, but we\u2019ve got to get it right. We\u2019ve got to make sure there is peace, that it is lasting peace, that it is fair and that it is just. And that\u2019s why I\u2019m travelling to Washington with other European leaders to discuss this face-to-face with President Trump and President Zelensky, because it\u2019s in everyone\u2019s interests, it\u2019s in the UK\u2019s interests, that we get this right.\u201d<\/p>\n Please enable cookies and other technologies to view this content. You can update your cookies preferences any time using privacy manager.<\/a><\/p>\n Enable cookiesAllow cookies onceWhat time is the Trump and Zelensky meeting?<\/p>\n Here is a rundown of the key timings for today\u2019s summit:<\/p>\n 12:00pm (5pm BST)<\/b> European leaders to arrive at the White House<\/p>\n 1pm<\/b> (6pm BST) <\/b>President Zelensky arrives at the White House<\/p>\n 1.15pm (6:15pm BST) <\/b>President Trump and Zelensky to meet in the Oval Office<\/p>\n 2.15pm (7:15 pm BST)<\/b> Trump greets the European leaders in State Dining Room<\/p>\n 2.30pm (7:30pm BST)<\/b> Group photo with European leaders<\/p>\n 3pm (8pm BST) <\/b>Trump has meeting with European leaders<\/p>\n How could Ukraine\u2019s border look after a peace deal?<\/p>\n President Trump has told President Zelensky that Ukraine must \u201cswap\u201d land to agree a deal with Russia.<\/p>\n It is not yet clear what exactly the US president means and Zelensky has appeared reluctant to accept any deal requiring Ukraine to surrender territory, saying: \u201cUkrainians will not gift their land to the occupier.\u201d<\/p>\n So what sort of a deal does Trump have in mind? In the article below we explore four scenarios of what could happen.<\/p>\n \u2022 Ukraine\u2019s border in maps: the options explained<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n Russian general \u2018seriously wounded\u2019 A senior Russian commander has been seriously wounded on the front line of the war with Ukraine, a senior official said on Monday.<\/p>\n General Esedulla Abachev, deputy commander of Russia\u2019s northern group of forces, and who comes from the country\u2019s Dagestan region, was in a serious but stable condition in \u201cone of the best military medical centres in the country\u201d, Sergei Melikov, a military leader, said on Telegram.<\/p>\n Ukrainian military intelligence said on Sunday that Abachev had an arm and a leg amputated after being wounded in a Ukrainian strike on a Russian military column on a highway in the Kursk region of western Russia, and that he was being treated in Moscow. Those details could not yet be independently confirmed. At least a dozen Russian generals have been killed since Moscow\u2019s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.<\/p>\n White House \u2018asked if Zelensky would wear a suit today\u2019 Zelensky\u2019s attire became a point of contention during the fraught White House meeting in February<\/p>\n SAUL LOEB\/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES<\/p>\n The White House has asked Ukrainian officials if President Zelensky will wear a suit to his meeting with President Trump later today, according to the Axios news site.<\/p>\n During February\u2019s explosive meeting in the Oval Office, Zelensky\u2019s outfit became a bone of contention for Trump: \u201cHe is all dressed up today\u201d said the president in a sarcastic barb, referring to his Ukrainian counterpart\u2019s military-style attire.<\/p>\n Sources told Axios that Zelensky will show up at the White House on Monday wearing the same black jacket he wore to a Nato summit in the Netherlands in June. \u201cIt is going to be \u2018suit-style\u2019 but not a full suit,\u201d one of the sources said.<\/p>\n Zelensky is expected to wear the same black jacket he wore in the Netherlands in June<\/p>\n PATRICK VAN KATWIJK\/GETTY IMAGES<\/p>\n Russian troops \u2018fly US flag\u2019 on captured American-made vehicle Russia has released a video purporting to show its troops entering the battlefield in a captured American-made M113 Armoured Personnel Carrier displaying the American and Russian flags.<\/p>\n The Russian state-controlled outlet RT published the video on Telegram, saying that the footage was taken near the village of Mala Tokmachka in the Zaporizhzhia region.<\/p>\n Andriy Yermak, Zelensky\u2019s chief adviser, shared the video with the caption: \u201cRussians are using the symbols of the United States in their own terroristic, aggressive war involving the killing of civilians.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThis is the height of audacity,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n Putin \u2018never been serious about peace\u2019, says Starmer<\/p>\n President Putin cannot be trusted and is not serious about peace, Sir Keir Starmer has said before his visit to the White House.<\/p>\n The prime minister cited Russian drone attacks that killed six people in Kharkiv overnight, including two children, amid intensifying negotiations over a potential peace deal.<\/p>\n The prime minister\u2019s spokesman said: \u201cPresident Putin\u2019s barbaric attacks on Ukraine continue. It is why we have always said there is one person who is able to end this war at any moment. President Putin has the choice to roll back his tanks and stop the bloodshed. President Putin has never been serious about peace.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have previously said we are never going to leave it down to trust when it comes to Putin. For more than ten years he has shown he cannot be trusted when it comes to peace. We have seen what happened before. Any end to the fighting \u2014 for that to be translated into a sustained peace \u2014 must be backed up by security guarantees.\u201d<\/p>\n Starmer: UK ready to put boots on ground in Ukraine<\/p>\n Britain is prepared to put \u201cboots on the ground\u201d in Ukraine to act as a guarantee in the event of a deal with Russia, Sir Keir Starmer has said.<\/p>\n The prime minister\u2019s spokesman said that Britain and other allies, known as the \u201ccoalition of the willing\u201d, were prepared to commit \u201creassurance forces\u201d to Ukraine.<\/p>\n He said: \u201cWe are ready to put UK boots on the ground in part to reassure Ukrainians but in part to secure safe skies, safe seas and regenerate Ukraine\u2019s armed forces. It is obviously welcome that President Trump has paved the way for vital US security guarantees.\u201d<\/p>\n Downing Street said Starmer accepted President Trump\u2019s suggestion that a ceasefire might not be needed to secure a lasting peace deal.<\/p>\n \u201cThe quicker you can bring about an end to the conflict and translate that into a lasting peace the better. We applaud President Trump\u2019s efforts to bring about an end to the killing. We want to see an end to the killing if you can bring about an end to the killing and a sustained peace in one go all the better.\u201d<\/p>\n PM affirms Ukraine\u2019s right to Nato membership<\/p>\n Sir Keir Starmer has said he stands by his commitment to Ukraine retaining an \u201cirreversible path\u201d to joining Nato after President Trump ruled out membership.<\/p>\n The prime minister\u2019s spokesman said that Russia could not be allowed to have a \u201cveto\u201d over Ukraine\u2019s membership of Nato and there could be no \u201climitations\u201d.<\/p>\n The comments directly contradict Trump, who said at the weekend that \u201cthere can be no going into Nato by Ukraine\u201d.<\/p>\n Downing Street said: \u201cOur position on Ukraine and Nato hasn\u2019t changed. Ukraine is on an irreversible path. Russia cannot have a veto over Ukraine\u2019s path to Nato.\u201d<\/p>\n Russia floats civilian swap with Ukraine<\/p>\n Moscow is ready to hand over 31 civilians to Ukraine in return for the return of the same number of people to Russia, according to the Russian human rights commissioner Tatyana Moskalkova and reported by state news agency RIA.<\/p>\n Moskalkova said 31 civilians from the Russian region of Kursk, where Ukrainian staged a major incursion last year, were still being held in Ukraine. She said she would meet shortly with her Ukrainian counterpart, Dmytro Lubinets.<\/p>\n Zelensky accuses Kremlin of \u2018cynical\u2019 attacks before summit<\/p>\n President Zelensky has described today\u2019s strikes on Ukraine \u201ccynical\u201d, and a deliberate attempt to frustrate the summit in Washington later today.<\/p>\n \u201cThis was a demonstrative and cynical Russian strike. They are aware that a meeting is taking place today in Washington that will address the end of the war,\u201d he wrote on X.<\/p>\n \u201cPutin will commit demonstrative killings to maintain pressure on Ukraine and Europe, as well as to humiliate diplomatic efforts. That is precisely why we are seeking assistance to put an end to the killings.\u201d Zelensky added.<\/p>\n \u201cRussia should not be rewarded for its participation in this war.\u201d<\/p>\n Russia strikes Azerbaijani energy facility in south Ukraine<\/p>\n President Zelensky has said Russia deliberately attacked an energy facility in Ukraine\u2019s southern Odesa region belonging to Azerbaijan\u2019s Socar state oil company before the Washington summit.<\/p>\n The oil depot was said to be completely destroyed after the after a 15-strong drone attack in the early hours of Monday morning. The depot was first attacked last week.<\/p>\n After the first attack, in which several employees were seriously injured, Azerbaijan issued a statement promising to consider supplying weapons to Ukraine if strikes on its assets continued.<\/p>\n As part of Baku\u2019s official stance of neutrality on the war, it has so far refrained from supplying weapons to either Russia or Ukraine, though it does send humanitarian aid to the latter.<\/p>\n However, amid a diplomatic crisis with Moscow, officials have hinted that Azerbaijan could send Ukraine supplies from the country\u2019s existing arsenal, including Soviet-era and Russian-made weaponry.<\/p>\n Russian oil flows to Hungary halted\u00a0after attack on pipeline<\/p>\n Ukraine\u2019s foreign minister said that Hungary \u201ccan now send complaints\u201d to Moscow, not Kyiv, after his Hungarian counterpart accused Ukraine of an attack on a Russian oil pipeline.<\/p>\n Russian crude oil flows to Hungary were halted after a strike on a transformer station of the pipeline leading to Hungary. In a Facebook post, the Hungarian foreign minister, Peter Szijjarto, said Kyiv was behind the attack.<\/p>\n Most of Hungary\u2019s crude oil is imported via the Druzhba pipeline<\/p>\n BERNADETT SZABO\/REUTERS<\/p>\n Szijjarto said that he had talked to Russian deputy energy minister, Pavel Sorokin, who informed him that experts were working to restore the transformer station but it was unclear when deliveries will resume.<\/p>\n Andrii Sybiha, Ukraine\u2019s foreign minister, neither confirmed nor denied the accusations in his statement on X. \u201cIt is Russia, not Ukraine, who began this war and refuses to end it. Hungary has been told for years that Moscow is an unreliable partner. Despite this, Hungary has made every effort to maintain its reliance on Russia,\u201d he said<\/p>\n Hungary imports most of its crude oil via the Druzhba pipeline, which transports Russian crude through Belarus and Ukraine to Hungary and also Slovakia.<\/p>\n Putin calls allies to discuss results of Alaska summit<\/p>\n President Putin will continue to inform foreign partners about the outcome of the Russia-US summit, the Interfax news agency reported on Monday, citing the Kremlin.<\/p>\n On Sunday, the Putin held phone calls with the presidents of Belarus, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan to discuss the results of Friday\u2019s summit in Alaska with President Trump.<\/p>\n Putin is also reported to have discussed the summit with President Ramaphosa of South Africa.<\/p>\n Three killed in strike on Zaporizhzhia<\/p>\n A Russian attack on the southeastern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia killed three people and injured 20, the regional governor has said.<\/p>\n Ivan Fedorov said on Telegram that \u201cmany\u201d of the injured were in critical condition after the Monday morning strike.<\/p>\n Ukrainian helicopters prove \u2018highly effective\u2019 against Putin\u2019s drone waves Military helicopters equipped with machine guns have been used to shoot down Russia\u2019s Shahed-type drones<\/p>\n YURIY DYACHYSHYN\/AFP\/GETTY IMAGES<\/p>\n Ukraine shot down more than 3,200 Russian Shahed-type drones from helicopters over the past year, Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi told RBC-Ukraine.<\/p>\n Frequently used to target cities, including residential buildings and other civilian infrastructure, Shahed drones<\/a> have become a central weapon in Moscow\u2019s long-range strikes against Ukraine, The Kyiv Independent reports.<\/p>\n \u201cThe army aviation has proven itself very well: helicopters equipped with machine guns are highly effective,\u201d Syrskyi said. \u201cFrom August last year to August this year, they shot down more than 3,200 Shahed-type drones \u2014 these are impressive figures,\u201d Syrskyi said.<\/p>\n Originally designed in Iran and mass-produced in Russia under the name Geran-2, Ukraine has made countering Shahed drones a priority in its defence planning for this year, as Russia continues to scale up production. Ukraine\u2019s airforce reported that 6,129 Shahed drones were launched in July, surpassing June\u2019s 5,337 and a fourteen-fold increase compared with July last year.<\/p>\n We need clarity on security guarantees, says Ukrainian MP<\/p>\n Solidifying the details of a security agreement is the \u201cmost important goal\u201d of President Zelensky and European leaders in America today, the Ukrainian MP Kira Rudik has said.<\/p>\n She told Times Radio that ensuring President Putin did not attack Ukraine again if it agreed to a peace deal had been \u201ca complicated question that no one has wanted to tackle all along\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cRight now, we are at the time when it has to be discussed, needs to be discussed, and President Trump sort of hinted that they have discussed it with Putin and the US are ready to provide security guarantees for Ukraine.<\/p>\n \u201cPresident Zelensky needs to understand: what is that that is offered, and then try to perhaps craft some agreements between the US, Europe and Ukraine on how it would look.\u201d<\/p>\n Please enable cookies and other technologies to view this content. You can update your cookies preferences any time using privacy manager.<\/a><\/p>\n Enable cookiesAllow cookies onceThe industrial heartland central to today\u2019s talks<\/p>\n The final stand for thousands of soldiers, rich in coal but ruined by war \u2014 no other territory in Ukraine has seen a similar toll as the eastern Donbas region (Anthony Loyd writes). Its fate may now decide the future of the war during today\u2019s meeting in Washington.<\/p>\n Ukraine has clung to this industrial heartland ever since fighting erupted there in 2014, when pro-Russian separatists first began to clash with Ukrainian troops and declared Donetsk and Luhansk self-styled independent \u201cpeople\u2019s republics\u201d.<\/p>\n Yet now, despite holding on to 22 per cent of Donbas \u2014 about 6,600 sq km of land \u2014 Ukraine may be expected to surrender its most fortified defence lines after Putin demanded that it hand over this remaining territory, including strategic heights and fortified cities, as a condition to ending the war.<\/p>\n \u2022 Read in full: <\/b>The ball is in Zelensky\u2019s court but he is in an impossible position<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n Trump \u2018repeating mistakes of the past\u2019<\/p>\n The Alaska summit between President Trump and President Putin on Friday was a \u201cshameful betrayal\u201d of Ukraine and a \u201cPutin capitulation\u201d, Sir Iain Duncan Smith, the former leader of the Conservative Party, has said.<\/p>\n The long-serving MP told Times Radio: \u201cAmerica is blowing hot and cold about whether it thinks Ukraine is important.\u201d<\/p>\n He said Trump was \u201crepeating the mistakes of the past\u201d and compared the possibility of the US forcing Ukraine to cede territory to 1938 when Britain and France demanded Czechoslovakia relinquish control of the Sudetenland territory to Germany in an effort to appease Hitler and avoid war.<\/p>\n \u201cThat then led to [Nazi Germany] taking over Czechoslovakia, moving into Poland, and the rest, of course, if brutal history,\u201d Duncan Smith said. \u201cThe West has become very weak militarily, but also in moral terms. We have no idea what we stand for,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n Please enable cookies and other technologies to view this content. You can update your cookies preferences any time using privacy manager.<\/a><\/p>\n Enable cookiesAllow cookies onceRussian media derides Zelensky\u2019s \u2018support group\u2019<\/p>\n Russian media has sought to cast Ukraine\u2019s European allies as meddlers in the negotiations between Moscow and Washington before President Zelensky\u2019s meeting with Donald Trump.<\/p>\n Derisively portraying them as Zelensky\u2019s \u201csupport group\u201d, various media outlets suggested that they will attempt to sway Trump away from the peace terms laid out by President Putin in Alaska last week.<\/p>\n In a leading article published in Izvestie entitled \u201ccan the EU \u2018support group\u2019 influence the positions of Russia and the US\u201d, the pro-Kremlin publication said that Europe was becoming the \u201cmain obstacle\u201d to agreements made between Trump and Putin in Alaska.<\/p>\n Komsomolskaya Pravda, another staunchly pro-Putin newspaper, said that letting Zelensky go to Washington alone after the Oval Office disaster in February was a \u201close-lose situation\u201d for them. \u201c[They would prefer for Zelensky] to be gagged, but then of course he wouldn\u2019t be able to refuse Trump, which is what this whole European gang is hoping for.\u201d<\/p>\n Another body found amid rubble in Kharkiv<\/p>\n The death toll from a Russian drone attack on an apartment block in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv has risen to six, the region\u2019s governor Oleh Syniehubov said on Telegram.<\/p>\n \u201cA deceased person was found on the top floor of the damaged building,\u201d said Syniehubov. He added that a search and rescue operation continues.<\/p>\n Earlier Syniehubov wrote: \u201cA Russian drone attack on Kharkiv at dawn today took the lives of 5 people, including 2 children: 1.5 and 16 years old. We all sincerely hope that this number will not increase, as the debris clearance is still ongoing.\u201d<\/p>\n Meloni \u2018warned leaders to not antagonise Trump\u2019 The Italian leader is concerned that if the US president feels he is being attacked by Europe, he will instead make a deal directly with Russia<\/p>\n WIN MCNAMEE\/GETTY IMAGES<\/p>\n In its insider account of yesterday\u2019s European leaders\u2019 video conference, the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera claims the Italian prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, warned against challenging President Trump over his handling of negotiations with President Putin.<\/p>\n Corriere reported Meloni believes \u201cthe risk is that if Trump is attacked, he will halt everything, effectively claim Ukraine doesn\u2019t want peace, Europe is not collaborating, and do what he wants, with the Americans making a deal directly with Russia.\u201d<\/p>\n The newspaper also claimed Meloni said it would be wise to ensure Trump and Zelensky do not have another impromptu press conference in the Oval Office, risking a repeat of their argument in February. Instead, it would be better to have them give separate statements to the press with no questions taken.<\/p>\n Russia continues its slow assault pushing west<\/p>\n Ukraine\u2019s airforce said on Monday that Russia had launched four missiles and 140 drones during an overnight attack on the country, as Moscow continues its slow assault pushing west.<\/p>\n The airforce said it downed 88 drones and recorded hits in 25 locations across six Ukrainian regions \u2014 Donetsk, Kharkiv, Sumy, Dnipropetrovsk, Odesa and Kyiv \u2014 according to the statement posted on Telegram.<\/p>\n Here is a map of the present front line, showing in detail the particularly contested Donetsk region.<\/p>\n Meloni and Macron \u2018at odds during EU talks\u2019 The French and Italian leaders at the G7 summit in June. Italian media has reported that Sunday\u2019s video conference of European leaders was less cordial<\/p>\n CHIP SOMODEVILLA\/GETTY IMAGES<\/p>\n The Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera has reported that during Sunday\u2019s video conference held by European leaders, tension was evident between the Italian prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, and President Macron of France. <\/p>\n Macron was \u201cnot persuaded\u201d when Meloni pushed the idea of offering security guarantees to Ukraine \u2014 an idea she claims she was the first to come up with. Instead, Macron argued for a European stability force in Ukraine. Meloni replied, \u201cRussia has 1.3 million soldiers. How many must we send to do the job?\u201d<\/p>\n Corriere reported, adding that Meloni proposed Rome as the location for a Trump-Zelensky-Putin meeting, while Macron prefers Geneva. The newspaper quotes unnamed Meloni aides stating the Italian prime minister does not rate Euro-leader video conferences highly, believing little is decided and Macron seizes the occasion to show \u201che is the true leader of Europe\u201d.<\/p>\n China calls for \u2018fair, lasting and binding\u2019 peace deal<\/p>\n China has called for \u201call parties\u201d involved in peace talks in Washington aimed at ending Russia\u2019s war in Ukraine to reach an agreement \u201cas soon as possible\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cWe hope that all parties and stakeholders will participate in the peace talks in a timely manner and reach a fair, lasting, binding and acceptable peace agreement to all parties as soon as possible,\u201d the foreign ministry spokeswoman, Mao Ning, said at a news conference on Monday.<\/p>\n Germany fears \u2018overstretching\u2019 its armed forces<\/p>\n Germany<\/a> probably cannot deploy any troops to secure a peace deal in Ukraine without \u201coverstretching\u201d its own armed forces, the country\u2019s foreign minister has said.<\/p>\n Johann Wadephul, who is closely aligned with the chancellor Friedrich Merz, said the German military was already building up a 5,000-strong brigade in Lithuania and needed to concentrate on defending Nato territory.<\/p>\n It is understood that Berlin is sceptical about sending soldiers into Ukraine on training missions and participating in any air policing mission over the west of the country, after both ideas were floated as potential security guarantees by British officials.<\/p>\n Today is \u2018the big day\u2019, says Russia President Putin with Kirill Dmitriev in 2018. Now head of Russia\u2019s sovereign wealth fund, Dmitriev is one of the country\u2019s lead negotiators<\/p>\n SPUTNIK\/MIKHAIL KLIMENTYEV\/KREMLIN\/REUTERS<\/p>\n President Trump is \u201cpushing for the real solution\u201d in his talks with President Zelensky and European leaders today, one of Russia\u2019s lead negotiators has said.<\/p>\n Kirill Dmitriev, who joined Putin in Alaska last week<\/a> and who has previously taken part in talks in Washington, described Monday as \u201cthe big day\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cLet problem solving and peace prevail,\u201d he wrote on X, along with an emoji of a dove.<\/p>\n Born in Kyiv during the Soviet era, Dmitriev studied at school in the Ukrainian capital as a teenager. A former teacher has said he gave the impression of being \u201cdelighted\u201d when Ukraine gained independence from Moscow in 1991. He now serves as head of Russia\u2019s sovereign wealth fund.<\/p>\n UK \u2018would recognise\u2019 Kremlin-controlled Ukrainian land, if Kyiv agrees to it<\/p>\n A minister has denied that Ukraine giving up territory to Russia as part of any peace deal would be rewarding Russian aggression.<\/p>\n Stephen Kinnock, a health minister, told Times Radio the UK would recognise parts of Ukraine occupied by Russia officially becoming part of Putin\u2019s country, if Ukraine agreed to it. He denied it was a change in policy from the government.<\/p>\n \u201cThere has to be a just and durable peace, and that has to be backed up by very strong security guarantees \u2014 ironclad security guarantees \u2014 and that\u2019s why the European leaders are in Washington today,\u201d Kinnock said.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s very good that President Zelensky is going to meet with President Trump today, and he\u2019s going with the full backing of European leaders, and President Zelensky has made it clear that if the terms of any agreement are not acceptable to him, he will not accept them.\u201d<\/p>\n \u2018Zelensky must not be forced into deal\u2019<\/p>\n President Zelensky must not be forced to accept a peace deal if he is not happy with the terms, the government has said before the arrival of European leaders in Washington later today.<\/p>\n Speaking to Times Radio, Stephen Kinnock, a health minister, said that at the White House Sir Keir Starmer would make it \u201cabsolutely clear that any decisions taken about Ukrainian territory must be taken with the agreement of the Ukrainian government and President Zelensky\u201d.<\/p>\n It was reported that during the Alaska summit between Trump and Putin on Friday the Russian leader demanded control of the entire Donbas region<\/a>, even though Ukraine controls a meaningful share of it. Zelensky has said many times that he would never accept such a deal as it could create a launching pad for future Russian attacks.<\/p>\n \u201cThe government\u2019s been very consistent that decisions about Ukrainian territory are a matter for the Ukrainian government, for President Zelensky and the Ukrainian people,\u201d Kinnock said.<\/p>\n Death toll in Kharkiv rises to 5<\/p>\n The death toll from a Russian drone attack on a five-storey apartment block in Kharkiv has increased to five, including two children, with 20 people wounded, Ukrainian authorities said.<\/p>\n The pre-dawn attack reduced part of the building to rubble and sparked fires on at least three floors, the region\u2019s governor, Oleh Syniehubov, said on Telegram.<\/p>\n \u201cThe number of victims from the enemy UAV attack in Kharkiv has risen to 20,\u201d wrote Synegubov. \u201cFive people died, including two children. The fifth victim is a woman, her details are being clarified.\u201d<\/p>\n Ukraine\u2019s state emergency service posted videos showing rescuers attempting to break through the rubble to reach a trapped resident, while another showed a floor in flames.<\/p>\n \u2018Whole world is looking to Washington\u2019<\/p>\n The German foreign minister, Johann Wadephul, called for increased pressure on Russia and to push Moscow into concessions toward a \u201cjust and lasting peace\u201d.<\/p>\n Wadephul spoke in Tokyo before President Trump\u2019s meeting with President Zelensky and European leaders, including the German chancellor, Friedrich Merz.<\/p>\n \u201cIt is probably not an exaggeration to say the whole world is looking to Washington,\u201d he said at a press briefing alongside the Japanese foreign minister, Takeshi Iwaya, on Monday.<\/p>\n \u201cFirm security guarantees are central\u201d because \u201cUkraine must be able to defend itself effectively even after a ceasefire and peace agreement,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n Wadephul also pushed for more aid for Ukraine.<\/p>\n Without Nato membership, security guarantees \u2018are an illusion\u2019<\/p>\n Ukrainian politicians have baulked at President Trump\u2019s proposal of security guarantees, warning that America failed to make good on the last defence assurance it gave to Kyiv after the end of the Cold War.<\/p>\n Steve Witkoff, the US special envoy, said on Sunday that the US and European allies were \u201cpotentially prepared to be able to give Article 5 security guarantees\u201d to Ukraine.<\/p>\n Under Nato\u2019s Article 5 contingency, if a member is attacked each member of the alliance will consider this an attack on all of them. Ukraine would not however be a Nato state under this arrangement.<\/p>\n Solomiia Bobrovska, a member of the Ukrainian parliament\u2019s defence and intelligence committee, said that without Nato membership the guarantees were \u201cnothing \u2026 a big illusion.\u201d<\/p>\n She told The Times that the guarantees appeared to be a repeat of the Budapest Memorandum of 1994, when the nascent independent Ukrainian state agreed to give up its Soviet-era nuclear weapons in exchange for promises of security from Russia, the US and Britain.<\/p>\n The lack of specificity in that agreement allowed Russia to attack Ukraine in 2014 without reprisal, critics say. \u201cNo one can explain how it would work,\u201d Bobrovska, deputy head of Ukraine\u2019s delegation to Nato, said of the present proposal. \u201cWe have had this before in our history, 30 years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n In pictures: aftermath of Russian strike on Kharkiv A man is rescued from the debris after a Russian drone strike on a residential area of Kharkiv<\/p>\n SOFIIA GATILOVA\/REUTERS<\/p>\n PRESS SERVICE OF THE STATE EMERGENCY SERVICE OF UKRAINE IN KHARKIV\/REUTERS<\/p>\n Ukraine\u2019s foreign minister has said that Russia has continued to kill civilians despite peace efforts before the meeting between President Zelensky and President Trump.<\/p>\n \u201cRussia is a murderous war machine that Ukraine is holding back. And it must be stopped through transatlantic unity and pressure,\u201d Andrii Sybiha wrote on X about Russia\u2019s overnight attack on Kharkiv. \u201cMoscow must stop the killing in order to advance diplomacy,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n A Russian drone strike on a residential area in Kharkiv killed three people, including a child, and injured 17 people, according to Ukrainian authorities.<\/p>\n Trump: It\u2019s up to Zelensky to end war<\/p>\n Trump has said it is up to President Zelensky to end the war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n \u201cPresident Zelenskyy of Ukraine can end the war with Russia almost immediately, if he wants to, or he can continue to fight,\u201d the US president wrote on this Truth Social platform.<\/p>\n \u201cRemember how it started. No getting back Obama given Crimea (12 years ago, without a shot being fired!), and NO GOING INTO NATO BY UKRAINE. Some things never change!!!\u201d<\/p>\n Shortly after Trump\u2019s comment, Zelensky said in a post on X: \u201cWe all share a strong desire to end this war quickly and reliably. And peace must be lasting.<\/p>\n \u201cNot like it was years ago, when Ukraine was forced to give up Crimea and part of our east, part of Donbas, and Putin simply used it as a springboard for a new attack. Or when Ukraine was given so-called \u2018security guarantees\u2019 in 1994, but they didn\u2019t work.\u201d<\/p>\n Zelensky\u2019s hope to \u2018compel Russia to peace\u2019<\/p>\n President Zelensky has said he hoped Ukraine\u2019s \u201cshared strength\u201d with the US and European counterparts would compel Russia to peace.<\/p>\n \u201cI am grateful to the president of the United States for the invitation. We all equally want to end this war swiftly and reliably,\u201d Zelensky wrote on Telegram after arriving in the American capital on Sunday.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd I hope that our shared strength with America and with our European friends will compel Russia to real peace.\u201d<\/p>\n Trump drops ceasefire demand<\/p>\n President Trump has dropped his demand for a ceasefire in Ukraine because so much progress had been achieved in negotiations with Russia, his special envoy Steve Witkoff has claimed.<\/p>\n Trump had insisted before his meeting with President Putin in Alaska that he would walk out if Russia did not agree to a ceasefire, and he faced widespread criticism in the United States over the weekend for apparently backing down from this demand.<\/p>\n Witkoff, who was present at the meeting, claimed Trump \u201cpivoted\u201d to seeking a peace deal after Putin made significant concessions in their meeting regarding land swaps<\/a> and Nato-style security guarantees for Ukraine, Witkoff told CNN.<\/p>\n \u201cThe thesis of a ceasefire is that you\u2019d be discussing all of these issues that we resolved in Alaska,\u201d he said. \u201cWe cut through all kinds of issues that would have to be discussed and agreed to during a ceasefire period.\u201d<\/p>\n \u2022 Read in full: <\/b>Trump dropped ceasefire demand \u2018because so much progress was made\u2019<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n Russia and Ukraine scramble to stake claims in Donetsk region Russian shelling burnt houses in Kostiantynivka, Donetsk region, at the weekend<\/p>\n DIEGO HERRERA CARCEDO\/ANADOLU VIA GETTY IMAGES<\/p>\n Russia claimed on Sunday that its forces captured the villages of Popiv Yar and Ivano-Darivka in the Donetsk region, as it was accused of exaggerating its gains in the strategically crucial region before a potential freezing of the front line.<\/p>\n Ukraine, for its part, has been accused of underplaying its losses in Donetsk, the fiercest and most deadly front line in Ukraine, which has been thrown into the spotlight as it becomes a central bargaining chip in negotiations to end the war.<\/p>\n Both sides are in a race to secure what they can before a possible cessation of hostilities. President Putin reportedly expects Ukrainian<\/a> troops to withdraw from the parts of Donetsk it still controls in return for peace \u2014 an idea seemly backed by President Trump<\/a>, but so far shunned by the Ukrainian president.<\/p>\n Russian strikes on Kharkiv kill three, including child<\/p>\n A Russian overnight drone strike on a residential area in Kharkiv killed three people, including a child, and injured 17 people, according to Ukrainian authorities.<\/p>\n The attack killed the two-year-old boy early on Monday, Oleh Synehubov, the governor of the wider Kharkiv region, said on Telegram. The number of the injured from the Kharkiv attack was \u201ccontinuously increasing\u201d, he added.<\/p>\n The city\u2019s mayor Ihor Terekhov said on Telegram: \u201cAs of now, three people died, including a small child. 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