Trade talks between the European Union and the United States are going in the right direction, Europe's top trade negotiator said, while criticising a doubling of U.S. metals tariffs as a move that did not help with the negotiations.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Wednesday dismissed Russia’s ceasefire proposal as “an ultimatum” and renewed his call for direct talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin to break the deadlock over the war,

President Trump said Russian President Vladimir Putin told him he would have to respond to Ukraine’s recent attack, dampening the prospects for immediate peace between Moscow and Kyiv.