Russia-Ukraine LIVE: Trump sets up Putin-Zelensky peace talks after ‘breakthrough’ at White House summit – but Moscow issues more rocket attacks overnight 

Mark Almond, director of the Crisis Research Institute in Oxford, has given his analysis of the White House talks.

In this piece for Mail+, he says: ‘It won’t be the Europeans or President Zelensky who had the last word in Donald Trump’s ear.’

Posting on his Truth Social platform after the meeting, Mr Trump described the talks as ‘very good’, adding: ‘During the meeting we discussed security guarantees for Ukraine, which guarantees would be provided by the various European countries, with a coordination with the United States of America.

‘Everyone is happy about the possibility of PEACE for Russia/Ukraine.

‘At the conclusion of the meetings, I called president Putin and began arrangements for a meeting, at a location to be determined, between president Putin and president Zelensky.

‘After the meeting takes place, we will have a trilat which would be the two presidents plus myself.’

Before the White House talks, the US president said he would ‘probably’ be able to find common ground with the leaders on a plan to ward off future attacks on Ukraine.

He previously met with Mr Putin in Anchorage, Alaska, on Friday, where he declared there was ‘no deal until there’s a deal’ to end more than three years of fighting in eastern Europe.

Sir Keir Starmer has hailed ‘real progress’ made during the White House summit yesterday with European leaders aimed at bringing an end to the war in Ukraine.

The Prime Minister was one of several European leaders, including Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, French President Emmanuel Macron and Nato secretary general Mark Rutte, in attendance for the discussions in Washington.

Speaking after the event, Sir Keir described the talks as ‘good and constructive’, adding: ‘There was a real sense of unity between the European leaders that were there, and president Trump and president Zelensky’.

The Prime Minister highlighted ‘two material outcomes’ from the talks, firstly that the coalition of the willing ‘will now work with the US’ on security guarantees.

‘That’s really important for security in Ukraine, for security in Europe, and for security in the UK,’ Sir Keir said.

‘The other material outcome was the agreement that there will now be a bilateral agreement between president Putin and president Zelensky, that was after a phone call between president Trump and president Putin during the course of this afternoon, followed by a trilateral which will then add in President Trump.’

Let’s start with a look at the Daily Mail’s top story, which is that Vladimir Putin has failed to commit to peace talks with President Zelensky after yesterday’s summit.

This is fuelling fears the Russian leader will pull out of efforts to end the Ukraine war at the last minute. Read the full article here:

Good morning and welcome to the Daily Mail’s live coverage, after Donald Trump said Presidents Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky will meet.

It follows a dramatic White House summit yesterday with European leaders aimed at bringing an end to the war in Ukraine.

The US President spoke directly with the Russian president to begin planning a meeting between the two warring leaders, which will then be followed by a three-way meeting involving himself.

Stay with us throughout today for all the latest updates.