President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Monday that Kyiv and its partners were considering arranging a high-level meeting between Ukraine, Russia, the United States, European Union countries and Britain as part of a push to end Moscow's war in Ukraine.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has met with top U.S. and European officials in Rome ahead of a key phone call planned between President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

In developing news, US President Donald Trump announced that Russia and Ukraine would immediately start negotiations for a ceasefire and ultimately end the conflict, CNN reported.

Trump has repeatedly pressured both Russia and Ukraine to accept a ceasefire and peace deal to end the war that has lasted over three years.

President Donald Trump expressed optimism following a two-hour phone call on Monday with Russian President Vladimir Putin about “immediately” starting ceasefire talks with Ukraine, but seemed to signal that the U.

Nicusor Dan, the former civic activist and pro-European Union centrist politician who defied odds to decisively defeat a hard-right nationalist in Romania’s critical presidential race, has emerged as a counterforce to the right-wing populist wave sweeping across Eastern Europe

A pro-European centrist has won Romania’s presidential election in a race seen as a key test of the country’s democratic direction