Volodymyr Zelenskyy is meeting the leaders of the UK, France and Germany in London on Monday amid heavy pressure on Ukraine from the Trump administration to cede territory it currently holds in efforts to reach a quick conclusion to the war.

The talks in London follow several days of negotiations between US and Ukrainian officials, which ended on Saturday without an apparent breakthrough and were characterised by the Ukrainian president as “constructive, although not easy”.

The UK prime minister, Keir Starmer , is meeting Zelenskyy in Downing Street, along with the French president, Emmanuel Macron, and the German chancellor, Friedrich Merz.

An official in Kyiv familiar with the talks told AFP that territory remained “the most problematic issue. [Vladimir] Putin does not want to e

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