The leaders of France and Britain are making tag-team visits to Washington this week. It's part of European efforts to persuade President Donald Trump not to abandon Ukraine in pursuit of a peace deal in the three-year-old war with Russia.

Meanwhile, the US-Russia relationship appears to be somewhat thawing - Russian President Vladimir Putin said he would be prepared to meet with Trump, as the country continues to discuss a way to end the conflict.

Poland's president will meet Donald Trump in Washington on Saturday, state news agency PAP reported, after he urged Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelenskiy to maintain calm and constructive cooperation with the U.

President Donald Trump said on Saturday the United States is close an agreement with Ukraine on sharing revenue from Ukrainian minerals as part of efforts to end the Ukraine war.

The White House and Ukraine have made significant progress toward reaching an agreement that would provide the U.S. with access to Ukraine’s rare earth minerals and tighten the long-term relationship