Donald Trump has said there will be “no immediate peace” in Ukraine following a phone call with Vladimir Putin. In a social media post after the call on Wednesday, the US president said Mr Putin had told him “very strongly” that he would respond to Ukraine’s weekend drone attack on Russian airfields.

Ukraine has repeatedly rejected the Russian conditions as tantamount to surrender. ISTANBUL − Russia told Ukraine at peace talks that it would only agree to end the war if Kyiv gives up big new chunks of territory and accepts limits on the size of its army,