French President intends to tell Donald Trump that it’s in the joint interest of Americans and Europeans not to “be weak” in the face of Vladimir Putin.

French President Emmanuel Macron says he intends to tell Donald Trump that it's in the joint interest of Americans and Europeans not to "be weak" in the face of Russia's Vladimir Putin, amid U.S.-led negotiations to end the almost three-year war in Ukraine.

President Trump said Monday that Russian President Vladimir Putin will accept European peacekeeping troops in Ukraine as part of a potential peace deal to end the three-year-old war. “Yeah, he will accept that.

President Donald Trump is hosting French President Emmanuel Macron at the White House on Monday, with Russia and Ukraine set to be atop the agenda as the world marks three years since Vladimir Putin's invasion.

Meanwhile in New York, the US sided with Vladimir Putin to oppose a UN resolution condemning Russia on the third anniversary of its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

At a meeting at the White House, President Trump declined to call President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia a dictator while President Emmanuel Macron of France stated flatly that “the aggressor is Russia.

It comes after Zelensky tells European leaders his country needs security guarantees to prevent Russia invading again in years to come.

Michael McFaul, Former U.S. Ambassador to Russia and Simon Shuster, Reporter for Time Magazine join Nicolle Wallace on Deadline White House with reaction to the meeting between French President Emmanuel Macron and Donald Trump at the White House,

Sitting beside the French president, Mr Trump pointedly declined to call Vladimir Putin a dictator, saying “I don’t use those words lightly.” Mr Macron seemed cautiously upbeat about his visit to the White House.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Monday that he has not discussed resolving the conflict in Ukraine in detail with U.S. President Donald Trump and nor did Russian and American negotiating teams when they met in Saudi Arabia last week,

Trump has stirred controversy across Europe by criticizing the Ukrainian president and claiming that Ukraine, not Russia, started the war.