European leaders urge Trump to host Zelenskyy-Putin talks

Call at G7 summit in France comes as Ukraine president tells US counterpart Kyiv is no longer losing on battlefield Europe live – latest updates European leaders at the G7 summit have urged Donald Trump to try to break the deadlock over ending the Ukraine war by taking up the proposal for him to host talks in the US between Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Vladimir Putin.The US president lamented “the great antipathy” between the Ukrainian and Russian leaders that made it difficult to reach a settlement, and vowed to do what he could. He said Moscow “should make a deal”, noting that it had “lost a great many people, just like Ukraine”. Continue reading...