First Thing: Zelenskyy says he told Trump that Putin was ‘playing games’ with Washington

‘Victory in this war is when Russian society recognises that the war is awful,’ Zelenskyy said. Photograph: David Levene/The Guardian

In the fifth year of Russia’s full-scale war on Ukraine, Volodymr Zelenskyy says he is feeling upbeat and has been grateful for military support from the US, but has a pointed message for Washington.

Speaking to Luke Harding and Pippa Crerar in London, the Ukrainian president acknowledged that the priority of Trump’s second term in foreign policy had shifted away from Ukraine to conflict in the Middle East.