Mr Trump has no clear plan, and his options range from cutting off Ukraine to ramping up military aid and sanctions. The dance between the American president and Mr Putin took another step in Riyadh,

Russia's foreign minister Sergei Lavrov and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio are meeting in the Saudi capital Riyadh, but Ukraine has not been invited.

As Europeans talked the possibility of contributing peacekeepers to back any Ukraine peace deal, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov also said in Riyadh that Moscow would not accept the deployment of NATO troops there,

Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world Donald Trump appeared to blame Ukraine for the war with Russia and signalled Kyiv should hold elections, hours after the US held high-level talks with Moscow in Riyadh.

The talks between US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, concluded with Rubio confirming that the nations would reopen missions in Washington and Moscow.

The United States formally brought Russia in from the cold Tuesday with high-level talks aimed at ending Moscow’s war with Ukraine and reestablishing long-frozen diplomatic and economic ties. A Trump administration team led by Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat down for four hours with senior representatives of Russian President Vladimir Putin in Riyadh,

The president was answering reporters' questions at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida, where a BBC journalist asked whether Ukrainians might feel "betrayed" after not being invited to the talks in Riyadh The president is now asked about what role Elon Musk has within his administration,

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said his team and Kremlin negotiators agree in Saudi Arabia on four broad principles moving forward to help negotiate peace between Russia and Ukraine and the ongoing dialogue.

It comes after the Ukrainian president suggested Donald Trump was "living in a disinformation space" created by Russia.