President Donald Trump on Tuesday joked about scoring a ticket to heaven by brokering an elusive peace deal in Ukraine after a high-stakes summit meeting with European allies at the White House. A day after the extraordinary gathering of leaders claimed some modest progress toward talks with Russia,

In a reversal only few hours after meeting Russian President Vladimir Putin, Trump said an overall peace agreement, and not a ceasefire, was the best way to end the war. That statement echoed Putin’s view that Russia is not interested in a temporary truce, and instead is seeking a long-term settlement that takes Moscow’s interests into account.

President Donald Trump welcomed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to the White House for a high-stakes meeting as the U.S. president pushed for a deal to end Moscow's war on its neighbor. A host of European leaders joined the pair.

P resident Donald Trump gave "my assurance" that there would be no United States troops deployed to defend Ukraine's border under any security guarantee that emerges in a peace deal to end Russia's invasion. Trump made the comment during an interview with Fox & Friends on Tuesday morning.

Asked in an interview "what kind of assurance" there is that US troops won't be involved in Ukraine after the war, Trump said "You have my assurance."

We've been checking videos since first thing this morning showing the aftermath of strikes in Ukraine and Russia - as attacks continued following talks in Washington on how to end the war. Our team has checked and confirmed the location of strikes in the Ukrainian city of Kremenchuk and across the border at Volgograd in Russia.

Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelenskiy and European leaders will meet Donald Trump in Washington on Monday to map out a peace deal amid fears the U.S. president could try to pressure Kyiv into accepting a settlement favourable to Moscow.