Another major talking point is on security guarantees. Trump says security guarantees for Ukraine would be "provided" by European countries with "coordination" by the US. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has told the BBC that the UK negotiators will shortly be arriving in Washington for further planning on this.

Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky have apparently agreed to sit down for a one-on-one meeting within the next two weeks.

President Trump said Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and special envoy Steve Witkoff are coordinating with Russia and Ukraine.

We don’t have any date,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told reporters about a potential meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. President Trump said he hopes to hold a trilateral meeting with himself and the Russian and Ukrainian leaders.

Plans are under way for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to meet face-to-face with Vladimir Putin. Flooding in a north-west Pakistani district has killed at least 220 people, officials said, as rescuers pulled more bodies from flattened homes.

Donald Trump has announced plans are underway for a historic meeting between Volodymyr Zelensky and Vladimir Putin. Prior to the announcement, the Kremlin confirmed the US President spoke with the Russian President for 40 minutes in the middle of his talks with Mr Zelensky and European leaders at the White House.

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

At what was billed as an “historic” presidential summit, hastily put together in Alaska on Friday afternoon, the optics were as clear and overshadowing as the vast Chugach mountains glistening over Anchorage in the summer sun.