
Key European leaders sought Friday to project a united front with US President Donald Trump on ending the war in Ukraine, after direct talks between Moscow and Kyiv wrapped up with no breakthrough on a ceasefire.
As the talks concluded in Istanbul, the leaders of France, Germany, Britain and Poland -- together with Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky -- called Trump from the sidelines of a summit in Albania, to debrief him and plan their next steps.