It was not clear if the Ukrainian leader was serious or if he was just reacting to attacks against him from Washington and Moscow.

President Donald Trump’s envoy to Ukraine and Russia said on Friday that he had held “extensive and positive discussions” with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy about the three-year war with Russia and praised the Ukrainian leader as an “embattled and courageous leader of a nation at war.

The United States has proposed its own United Nations resolution marking the third anniversary of Russia’s war in Ukraine after refusing to back one drafted by Kyiv and backed by Europe.

The U.S. on Friday proposed a draft United Nations resolution to mark the third anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and the proposal pits Washington against an effort by Kyiv and European allies to have their own text adopted on Monday by the General Assembly.

Trump has increasingly shifted some of the blame to Zelensky, suggesting he failed to take key steps leading up to the conflict to avert the Ukraine war.

The largest conflict on the European continent since World War II is at a turning point ahead of Monday’s third anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Poland's president will meet Donald Trump in Washington on Saturday, state news agency PAP reported, after he urged Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelenskiy to maintain calm and constructive cooperation with the U.

French President Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minister, Keir Starmer will travel to Washington, United States next week amid alarm in Europe over US President Donald Trump’s hardening stance towards Ukraine and overtures to Moscow on the three-year conflict.