An outline of Russian President Vladimir Putin's conditions for a ceasefire has emerged with US President Donald Trump claiming a deal to end the full scale war is ''pretty close'', but Ukraine has to agree to it,

As President Trump touched down in Anchorage on Friday to meet with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia over the war in Ukraine, that country’s leader, President Volodymyr Zelensky, criticized continuing Russian strikes as a sign that Moscow was not prepared to end the conflict.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and European leaders have begun talks via video link with US President Donald Trump about his upcoming meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The online meeting was arranged at short notice by German Chancellor Friedrich Merz,