G7 leaders to meet Zelensky as Trump signals possible Ukraine breakthrough

Then, the U.S. president vowed to use his newfound bandwidth to settle the war in Ukraine, which he had previously promised to end within 24 hours of taking office, during the 2024 election campaign.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will be in attendance at the invitation of host France.

Putin has repeatedly rejected offers for a face-to-face meeting with Zelensky to try to broker an end to more than four years of war.

In the context of Russia's large-scale attack, he mentioned damage to the Dormition Cathedral of the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, a strike on Kharkiv that killed five firefighters and a strike on Dnipro.