The protections that the US and Europe would be able to provide to Ukraine are similar to NATO's collective defense mandate.

President Donald Trump will meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Monday to discuss what he would require in a peace deal with Russia.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio admitted there would likely need to be some mutual concession of land from Ukraine to Russia in order for a peace agreement to be reached, however Ukrainians find it hard to support such a notion.

President Trump said that Russia and Ukraine should go directly to negotiations to end the war instead of a cease-fire agreement, after his summit with the Russian President Vladimir Putin and subsequent discussions with Ukraine and other European leaders.

Putin put forward a demand that Ukraine needs to withdraw from the eastern Donetsk region as a condition for ending Moscow's war with Kyiv during the Alaska Summit with Trump on F

U.S. President Donald Trump could offer NATO-like protection of Ukraine, and Russia is open to the idea, one of his top foreign policy officials said on Sunday ahead of a meeting with Ukraine and European leaders to hammer out details of possible security guarantees for Kyiv.

The leaders of France, Germany and Britain will try to shore up Ukraine's position on Sunday as President Volodymyr Zelenskiy prepares to meet Donald Trump in Washington with the U.S. leader pressing Kyiv to accept a deal to end the war.