As Trump's plan to meet Putin is called off, Zelenskyy says another bloody night in Ukraine shows Russia isn't feeling "enough pressure for dragging out the war."

A contentious meeting between President Trump and President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine produced no obvious progress toward a cease-fire.

A White House official told The Independent there are “no plans” for a sit-down between Trump and Putin “in the immediate future” because Secretary of State Marco Rubio had conducted a “productive call” with his Russian counterpart, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov which made an in-person meeting between the two top diplomats “not necessary.”

President Donald Trump said meeting Russia's Vladimir Putin would be a "waste of time" just before Russia carried out strikes across Ukraine

Trump wants Russia and Ukraine to freeze the war on the current battlelines, with Moscow holding a huge swathe of eastern Ukraine.

At least six people were killed in Russian aerial attacks on Ukraine overnight, according to the country's authorities.

John Thune, the leader of the Republican majority in the US Senate, has said that consideration of a bill introducing new tough sanctions against Russia and its trading partners has been postponed at the request of the White House,