Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky says he has spoken with US President Donald Trump, as well as other world leaders, following Trump's meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska. Zelensky has also confirmed that he will meet with Trump in Washington on Monday.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz is optimistic that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's meeting on Monday at the White House will not go the way the last one did. An extraordinary, unprecedented scene unfolded at that meeting at the end of February,

President Trump is preparing to sit down with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House on Monday. The two leaders will discuss an agreement to end Russia's ongoing war with Ukraine.