Four key takeaways from the White House Ukraine summit

These are the key takeaways from the talks between US President Donald Trump, Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy and other European leaders, including Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer.

Security guarantees In an important step towards a deal, Mr Trump has promised that the US would be involved in providing security guarantees for Ukraine. The US leader said that there would be some form of security guarantees for Ukraine, but did not reveal whether this would involve US troops.

Mr Trump said Mr Putin "agreed that Russia would accept security guarantees for Ukraine". He added: "I think that the European nations are going to take a lot of the burden.

We're going to help them, and we're going to make it very secure." His comments were welcomed by the European leaders, with Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, saying it was "good to hear" the nations were working on "Article Five-like security guarantees". NATO's Article Five is the principle that an attack on one member is considered an attack on all of them.

"When we speak about security guarantees, we speak about the whole security of the European continent," French President Emmanuel Macron said. He added that one guarantee he would want to come out of any deals is that Ukraine should be able to have a "credible" army for "the years and decades to come".

No ceasefire needed for peace deal Mr Trump said there did not need to be a ceasefire in Ukraine, because a peace deal could be worked out while Ukraine and Russia are at war. "I don't think you need a ceasefire.

You know, if you look at the six deals that I settled this year, they were all at war, I didn't do any ceasefires," he said. "I know that it might be good to have, but I can also understand, strategically, why one country or the other wouldn't want it.

You have a ceasefire and they rebuild and rebuild and rebuild and maybe they don't want that." He said he liked the "concept of a ceasefire.