Senior White House figures, including US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, are due to meet Russian negotiators in Saudi Arabia in the coming days. US officials said that Ukraine was also invited - although President Volodymyr Zelensky says his country has received no such invitation.

French President Emmanuel Macron has called leaders from key European Union nations and the United Kingdom for an emergency meeting Monday.

UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, who is expected to attend the summit, described the situation as a "once-in-a-generation moment for our national security," emphasizing the need for Europe to take a greater role in NATO.

Here is what some have said ahead of the meeting on the issue of sending peacekeeping troops into Ukraine. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has said he is ready to send British troops to Ukraine as part of any postwar peacekeeping force.

Sir Keir Starmer says ‘there must be a US backstop’ for any Ukraine peace deal. Release date: 18 February 2025

European leaders were shocked by the hostility of JD Vance’s scathing speech in Munich criticizing Europe’s exclusion of far-right groups from power.

U.S. President Donald Trump spoke with French President Emmanuel Macron shortly before European leaders discussed their nations' security concerns and the continent being shut out of plans to end Russia's war in Ukraine.

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