US President Donald Trump backs ceding Ukraine's Donbas to Russia in a peace deal, sparking alarm among NATO allies and fears for Ukraine's sovereignty.

The president of Ukraine and his European allies are to visit the White House on Monday, after President Trump backed Russia’s plan to end the war.

Donald Trump is reportedly planning a trilateral meeting with Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Washington before April 22nd. This comes amid

While Luhansk is under Russia’s control, cities like Kramatorsk and Sloviansk still remain with Ukraine. Putin has demanded that Ukraine cede land in exchange for a ceasefire.

During his Alaska summit with President Trump, Russian President Vladimir Putin plans to lay flowers at the graves of Soviet pilots at Fort Richardson — a WWII burial site for airmen who died while training in Alaska to ferry U.S.-built planes to the Eastern Front. Here’s why those Soviet pilots are buried in Alaska.

Zelensky has rejected Russian demands to cede Ukrainian land. The Ukrainian leader and his European partners, including the leaders of Britain, France and Germany, had lobbied the White House for weeks to demand that Moscow agree to a ceasefire before any negotiations.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said he won’t cede the eastern region of Donbas to Russia and pushed for Kyiv to be included in talks as the US and Russian leaders prepare to meet on Friday.

Ukraine will not relinquish the eastern part of the country occupied and controlled by Russia, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Tuesday. He stressed in a conversation with journalists that the Ukrainians could not and would not give up Donbass,

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky vowed on Tuesday not to give eastern Ukrainian land to Russia, saying that abandoning the Donbas region would open the door for Russian President Vladimir Putin to “start a third war” in Ukraine.