Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelenskyy and top European leaders arrive in Washington for make-or-break meetings with President Trump and his team.

Talks would come “step by step, gradually, starting from the expert level and then going through all the necessary stages,” says Russia’s foot-dragging foreign minister.

President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin met in Alaska on Friday in their high-stakes summit seeking a ceasefire in the Russia-Ukraine war, but while Putin mentioned an "agreement" in the post-meeting news conference and Trump said "great progress" was made, there was no mention of a ceasefire.

European leaders in a "coalition of the willing" are meeting to project unity in response to Putin’s demands at his summit with Trump ahead of Zelenskyy’s Washington visit.

Zelenskyy and Trump expressed hopes that talks with Ukrainian and European leaders at the White House could lead to trilateral talks with Putin to bring an end to his war on Ukraine.

The Ukrainian president kicked off his one-on-one meeting with Donald Trump on Monday by handing over a letter for the first lady

President Trump says that American troops would not be sent to Ukraine as a security guarantee for any potential peace deal to end the conflict with Russia. NBC News' Yamiche Alcindor reports on the latest developments as the president says arrangements for a possible meeting between Ukrainian President Zelenskyy and Russian President Putin are underway.

An overnight Russian attack that rocked the central Ukrainian city of Kremenchuk and left hundreds of customers in the Poltava region without power shows that Russian President Vladimir Putin does not want peace,