The protections that the US and Europe would be able to provide to Ukraine are similar to NATO's collective defense mandate.

"We are seeing accommodation more than we've seen in the past, certainly more than we saw in the last administration," Witkoff said. "And that's encouraging. Now we have to build on that."

Marco Rubio clarifies that Ukrainian President Zelenskyy will decide on territorial issues in peace talks, not Trump, following reports concerning Donbas control.

Oil prices slipped on Monday as the U.S. did not exert more pressure on Russia to end the Ukraine war by implementing further measures to disrupt Russian oil exports after the presidents from both countries met on Friday.

Special U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff says Russian leader Vladimir Putin agreed to allow the U.S. and Europe to offer Ukraine a security guarantee resembling NATO's collective defense mandate.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Steve Witkoff, an envoy for President Trump, suggested that a peace deal was still distant.

The US First Lady wrote Vladimir Putin could "singlehandedly restore" the "melodic laughter" of children affected by the war in Ukraine.

Critics warned that other world leaders were powerless to stop Volodymyr Zelensky being caught 'with his head in a vice' by the American and Russian leaders when he visits Mr Trump.