By Kirsti Knolle, Olena Harmash and Tom Balmforth BERLIN/KYIV (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump has said Ukraine must be involved in talks about territory in any ceasefire deal with Russia, French President Emmanuel Macron said on Wednesday.

Zelenskyy said he told Trump that Putin “is trying to apply pressure ... on all sectors of the Ukrainian front” in an attempt to show that Russia is “capable of occupying all of Ukraine.” German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said European leaders and the Ukrainian president had a “constructive and good” discussion with Trump,

Europe’s leaders had worried that a “land swop” with Ukraine would only embolden Russia’s Vladimir Putin to expand further west. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.