US President Donald Trump and Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky held a highly publicized meeting in the Oval Office on Monday as European leaders arrived in Washington for high-stakes talks on ending the war in Ukraine.

U krainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called a series of overnight Russian strikes "demonstrative and cynical," hours before he is set to meet President Donald Trump in Washington. His comments came after a drone attack on an apartment block in Kharkiv killed seven people and multiple other strikes hit Zaporizhzhia, Odesa and other regions.

The Ukrainian president trades in his military basics for something resembling a suit.

President Donald Trump and others mocked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in March when he showed up at the White House in his customary military-style fatigues. Zelensky apparently got the message.

On 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,

European leaders are to join the Ukrainian president during a visit that seeks a path to ending the war between Ukraine and Russia.

The Prime Minister will join Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky in the White House as the US issues its demands to Ukraine following last week's Alaska summit with Vladimir Putin

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.