"This latest strike against our energy security is outrageous and unacceptable!" Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó posted to X on Monday morning.

Russia’s foreign ministry said UK PM Keir Starmer’s suggestion that he was prepared to deploy such troops was a dangerous ‘escalation’.

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will meet with President Donald Trump on Monday afternoon at the White House, just days after Trump and Russia’s President Vladimir Putin left an Alaska summit without a ceasefire deal.

President Trump met with European leaders at the White House to discuss an agreement over Russia’s war in Ukraine. New York Times Chief White House Correspondent Peter Baker, Staff Writer at The Atlantic David Graham,

For Putin, the war in Ukraine is not only about Kyiv's independence, it's about preserving Russia's power over former Soviet states.

Kyiv ‘pushes Russian forces back’ hours after Putin asks Trump for Donetsk surrender - Kyiv's troops say they have advanced up to 1.2 miles, repelling Russian troops on the northern Sumy front

Critics have noted that Trump left Alaska empty-handed, however, and that his failure to secure a ceasefire was a win for Russia’s leader. The official Democratic Party account on X wrote: “Trump invited a dictator onto U.S. soil just to get his shit rocked.”

U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday said he expected Russian President Vladimir Putin to release over 1,000 Ukrainian prisoners soon after a trilateral meeting was set up with Ukrainian leader Voldymyr Zelenskiy.