European leaders are set to meet to coordinate the next steps on security guarantees for Ukraine after high-level talks in Washington, as diplomatic efforts intensify ahead of a possible trilateral summit involving Kyiv and Moscow.

President Donald Trump is pushing for an end to the Russia-Ukraine war while ruling out sending U.S. troops to Ukraine.No American troops will be included in any security guarantees for Ukraine, but the administration could provide assistance in other ways,

I’ll get it done,” the US president says ahead of peace talks with Ukraine’s president at 13:00 EST (18:00 BST).

The German government believes the Ukraine summit in Washington was a historic meeting that successfully realigned the US government with European positions, government sources said on Tuesday. Monday's meeting in the White House,

Vladimir Putin has rejected attempts by Volodymyr Zelensky to meet face-to-face for the entirety of the 41-month-old war.

Zelensky said in his Telegram channel. "We exchanged assessments of the meetings in Washington and discussed our joint work with all partners regarding strong security guarantees for Ukraine. Jonas noted that this is truly a historic achievement: Europe has never been so united around Ukraine," the report said.

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

The Kremlin hasn't ruled out summits but has said they could only meet in the very final stages of clinching a peace agreement.

As leaders arrived in Washington to discuss how to end Russia’s three-year war in Ukraine, civilians in Ukraine were killed and wounded by Russian missile strikes Monday in the eastern city of Kharkiv.