O n August 18th Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine’s president, will enter the White House to meet Donald Trump and discuss ending the war in Ukraine. For Mr Zelensky it is a perilous moment. Since Mr Trump met Vladimir Putin,

Ukraine’s president condemns Russia’s “cynical” strikes before his meeting with Trump at 13:00 EST (18:00 BST).

Trump is set to host Zelensky and European leaders at the White House to discuss how to end Russia’s three-year war in Ukraine.

Ahead of a meeting with President Trump, President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine noted that Russia’s 2014 seizure of Ukrainian land became “a springboard for a new attack.”

His last trip to the White House ended in a shouting match - so what will Ukraine's leader do differently today?

President Donald Trump is due to meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, along with a number of European leaders, in Washington D.C. later on Monday.

In Alaska, the Russian leader proposed that Ukraine hand over the remainder of the Donbas region to Moscow to stop the fighting.

Hours before their rematch in the Oval Office, President Trump and his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelensky, already seemed to be negotiating, or at least sparring, on social media. Late Sunday,