Kyiv is working with allies on security guarantees akin to NATO's mutual protection pledge, Ukraine's president Volodymr Zelensky has said. Officials from Ukraine and allies the U.S., the U.K., France and Germany met in London on Thursday in a week when a peace proposal was produced which outlined an Article 5-like agreement which would be backed by Washington.

Donald Trump announced that Russia and Ukraine are close to reaching an agreement. The parties "should now meet, at very high levels, to "finish it off," Trump wrote. On Friday in Moscow, Vladimir Putin met with the U.