D onald trump promised to end the war in Ukraine within a day. Now, insiders say, he hopes to secure a ceasefire within his first 100 days—ie, by the end of this month. He has started to refer to the conflict as “Biden’s war”. But if it drags on, he worries it will increasingly become his.

US President Donald Trump is aware of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s invitation to visit Ukraine, but there are currently no such plans, said White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt. Leavitt was asked whether Trump had seen Zelenskyy’s invitation and what the US leader thought about it.

A Russian missile killed 34 people on Sunday in an attack that Trump described as "a mistake" and Germany called "a war crime".