A "coalition of the willing" meeting in London seeks to increase pressure on Russia to end its war in Ukraine.

When they are not fighting, they write poetry, letters home or words of praise to their supreme commander,” said one of the directors at Moscow's Museum of Victory.

European leaders want to build on President Trump’s sanctions on Russia with new commitments of financial and military support for Kyiv.

Belgium, in particular, has been reluctant to back using the frozen assets as it is nervous about having to shoulder any potential consequences should Russia legally challenge Euroclear, the clearing house where the money is located.

European Union leaders have ordered the bloc’s executive branch to come up with options for meeting Ukraine’s pressing economic and military needs over the next two years.

The Kremlin is acting yet more clinically and more cynically than it has before. Days before Mr Trump and Mr Zelensky met, missiles and drones had cut off the Ukrainian capital’s water supply. For the first time, the Kyiv metro went dark. Attacks on front-line areas like Sumy and Chernihiv have left parts of those regions without power for days.

Slovakia will not take part in any European Union programme aimed at financing military help for Ukraine in its fight against Russia's invasion, Prime Minister Robert Fico said on Sunday. Slovakia stopped state military aid for Ukraine when Fico's government came to power in 2023,

President Trump abruptly canceled a second meeting with Russian President Putin in Budapest and instead approved new strong sanctions on Russian oil. Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Bridget Brink, who is a Democratic candidate for Congress in Michigan’s 7th district,