Richard Thomas
The UK maintains a 600-strong force in Kosovo as part of KFOR. Credit: UK MoD/Crown copyright
Amomentous step towards a future peace deal or the latest in a series of false dawns in the ongoing Ukraine-Russia war, the end result of recent diplomatic efforts by the warring parties with the US and Europeans remain as yet unknown.
Following a bilateral with Russian President Vladimir Putin on 15 August 2025, US President Donald Trump followed that up days later with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Determined not to be left out, European leaders invited themselves and tagged along to the White House summit on 18 August.
What comes next is the prospect of a trilateral Trump-Putin-Zelenskyy meeting, possibly in Saudi Arabia as neutral territory, which would in theory begin to trash out the details of a ‘let’s skip a ceasefire and go straight to peace’ deal.
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