For Europe’s leaders, the White House meeting was about optics as much as substance: A chance to undo any ground Russia's Vladimir Putin may have gained with Trump in Alaska.

US President Donald Trump on Monday said he will call Russian President Vladimir Putin after his meeting with Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky and European allies in the White House. Zelensky and Trump answered questions from journalists in the Oval Office before closed-door discussions on ending the war in Ukraine.

In a hot mic moment Monday, Donald Trump appeared to be reassuring Emmanuel Macron that Vladimir Putin was serious about making peace in Ukraine.

The fallout from Donald Trump’s summit in Alaska with Russian President Vladimir Putin last week continues to grow. On Friday, Trump flew to an apparently impromptu meeting with Putin, shaming America by greeting like an honored guest the man who’d ignited the largest war in Europe since Hitler.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he was ready for a trilateral meeting with Russia's President Vladimir Putin after meeting U.S. President Donald Trump and European leaders at the White House on Monday.

Top Putin ally Dmitry Medvedev has mocked European leaders for 'sucking up' to Donald Trump and failing to 'outplay' him during the Ukraine summit in Washington.