U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday that Ukraine should agree a deal to end the war with Russia because "Russia is a very big power, and they're not," after hosting a summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin that failed to yield a ceasefire.
In a major shift, Trump also said he had agreed with Putin that negotiators should go straight to a peace settlement — not via a ceasefire, as Ukraine and its European allies, until now with U.S. support, have been demanding.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he would travel to Washington on Monday to discuss next steps, while Kyiv's European allies welcomed Trump's efforts but vowed to back Ukraine and tighten sanctions on Russia, and again urged the U.S. to offer security guarantees for Ukraine.
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