Donald Trump says Volodymyr Zelensky can end Russia’s war “if he wants to” but rules out Ukraine joining Nato as part of a peace deal
The US president also says Ukraine would not be able to reclaim the Crimean peninsula, illegally annexed by Moscow in 2014
It comes as the Ukrainian president lands in the US for White House talks on Ukraine’s future, joined by several key EU leaders
Trump’s special envoy says Vladimir Putin has agreed to “robust” security guarantees for Ukraine, including a potential Nato-style defence arrangement. Zelensky describes the US’s security guarantee offer as “historic”
It is quite possible that today’s meeting in the White House could prove even more crucial to the future of Ukraine than last Friday’s US-Russia summit in Alaska, our Security Correspondent Frank Gardner writes
But in the meantime Russian forces continue to move slowly forward in eastern Ukraine, while air strikes have killed at least five people overnight
