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US president says security guarantees for Kyiv could be provided by European countries with ‘coordination’ by Washington

Russian and Ukrainian presidents Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky looked set for a peace summit after fast-moving talks Monday between Donald Trump and European leaders that focused on the key issue of long-term security guarantees for Kyiv.

US President Donald Trump declares Crimea is 'off the table' and pressures Ukraine to yield to Russia as Zelenskyy arrives in Washington.

Ridicule of Trump-Putin summit turns to frustration at suggestion Ukraine could give up unoccupied land for peace

US envoy says Putin agreed at summit for Ukraine to have security guarantee from allies similar to NATO’s Article 5.

Russia has been accused of sending ‘signals’ ahead of the summit in Alaska

The US president said that a possible deal to end Russia’s war against Ukraine would include certain “land swapping”. But for the Ukrainian society, this is an impossible step, seen not as a compromise but rather a capitulation, neither Trump nor even Zelenskyy can force them into.

Kyiv says it struck the Syzran oil refinery and Caspian Sea port of Olya in separate attacks

Days before the leaders of Russia and the U.S. hold a summit meeting in Alaska, Moscow’s forces breached Ukrainian lines in a series of infiltrations this week in the country’s industrial heartland of Donetsk