Emily Atkinson
Live editor

Good afternoon. It's just turned 15:20 GMT here in our central London newsroom.

Down the road in Westminster, Keir Starmer's warming up for an extended Q&A with MPs on his four-point plan for securing peace in Ukraine and defending it from further Russian aggression.

The PM should be on his feet around 15:30. He'll deliver an opening statement, Tory leader Kemi Badenoch will respond for the opposition, before the floor is opened to questions.

There's a lot for MPs to cover...

Starmer's vision for a "coalition of the willing" - announced at a leaders' summit this weekend - will likely make up the bulk. We'll drill the (still scant) details of who will contribute - and what - in our next post.

Expect a good deal on the tightrope diplomacy of last week, too.

Undoubtedly, *that* Zelensky-Trump spat in the Oval Office will get a mention, and the chummy meeting Starmer himself shared with the US president the day before.

We'll bring you rolling updates on the key lines when it starts - follow along by hitting watch live above.

Harry Farley
Political correspondent

Downing Street has said there is “now intense work ongoing” towards a peace deal in Ukraine.

It comes after Sir Keir Starmer hosted a summit of European and other Nato leaders in London on Sunday.

“We want to see progress as quickly as possible,” the prime minister’s official spokesperson tells reporters.

Asked about proposals from France’s President Macron for a one-month partial truce in Ukraine, No 10 says it is one of “various options on the table”.

The spokesperson adds that the prime minister is clear any deal “must be lasting, it must be durable, [and] it must ensure that Ukraine has got significant defensive capabilities”.

Defence Secretary John Healey will travel to Washington this week to discuss the details of a peace deal with his US counterpart Pete Hegseth, they say.

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We've just heard from Estonian President Alar Karis, who says he hopes discussions between European leaders will continue, and that Europe and the US will work together again.

"We keep our eyes wide open" for any opportunities, he tells BBC Radio 4's World at One programme when asked if Estonia would be willing to join what the UK prime minister described yesterday as the "coalition of the willing".

"We welcome these discussions lead by the UK and France on security guarantees for Ukraine," he says, adding that Estonia wants to be part of them.

Karis highlights the importance of getting the US involved in plans moving forward.

"I'm pretty much convinced Europe needs the US as well," he says, adding that relations between these sides are "extremely" important.

Estonia is a member of Nato and currently spends 3.4% of GDP on defence. It plans to raise this figure to 5%.

Inna Sovsun, an MP for the Ukrainian opposition, has been speaking to BBC News about the much-discussed minerals deal between Ukraine and the US.

"The only deal that was on the table was the minerals deal, which is not a peace deal," she says.

"It's just an economic deal where Ukraine agrees to give up part of its minerals, in exchange for what," Sovsun asks.

"We are ready for any deal, but a deal is where both sides get something," she adds.

She says it is very unclear how any ceasefire between Ukraine and Russia will come to be, "given that they are attacking Ukraine daily and nightly right now."

Adam Easton
Warsaw Correspondent

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Former Polish president and Nobel Peace prize winner Lech Walesa and dozens of other communist-era dissidents have signed a letter to Donald Trump to express their "horror" at his treatment of Volodymyr Zelensky.

"We watched the coverage of your conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky with horror and distaste," says the letter, which was signed by Walesa and 39 other Polish former political prisoners.

"We consider your expectations regarding showing respect and gratitude for the material assistance provided by the United States to Ukraine in its fight with Russia to be offensive," the letter continues.

"Gratitude is due to the heroic Ukrainian soldiers who shed blood in defence of the values of the free world."

"We do not understand how the leader of a country that is the symbol of the free world can fail to see this," the letter reads, which was published on Walesa’s Facebook page.

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The United Nations Human Rights Commissioner says he is "deeply worried" by the "fundamental shift" in the US' direction "both domestically and internationally".

Without mentioning Trump, Volker Türk adds that "disinformation" and "intimidation" against journalists and public officials risk "undermining the work of institutions."

His comments come a few weeks after the US stunned its allies by reopening peace talks with Russia - with no one else invited to the table.

"Any discussions about ending the war must include Ukrainians and fully respect their human rights," Türk says, according to Reuters news agency.

The news agency adds that Türk says he is "stunned" by the casting aside of international institutions, calling budget cuts "a massive setback for human rights protection".

BBC Panorama
Emma Jacobs

“Donald Trump's message to Europe is you have to become much more self-sufficient” Richard Haass, former White House advisor, has told BBC Panorama.

He says that President Trump has long resented European reliance on American might and that the era of unconditional, unlimited American military aid has essentially come to an end.

Tonight on BBC Panorama, we look back at three years of full-scale war in Ukraine and the extraordinary bust up in the White House that’s plunged Europe into crisis.

Allan Little has spoken to UK Prime minister Keir Starmer and other leading commentators at this historic moment for the future security of Europe.

• Trump, Ukraine and Europe on the Edge is on BBC One and on BBC iPlayer at 20:00 GMT tonight.

Vitaliy Shevchenko
BBC Monitoring's Russia editor

Yesterday's summit showed that Ukraine still has friends who are willing to help - and this matters for Zelensky, who has been under enormous pressure following the falling out with Washington, and who looked visibly moved by the warm reception in London.

Whether these friends will be able to provide enough help for Ukraine to continue resisting Russia is another matter.

It’ll take time and money: it’s far from certain they’ll find enough money, and time is clearly what Ukraine is running out of.

These are the problems Keir Starmer’s four-point plan is trying to address.

Point number one – keeping military aid to Ukraine flowing – is the most important one in immediate practical terms. The other three points are about a potential peace deal, and this still remains a distant prospect.

It depends on some degree of cooperation from Russia or a willingness to stop fighting. This Moscow has explicitly ruled out by saying it intends to capture at least four of the regions in Ukraine’s southeast that it claims as its own (Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia).

What’s also important is that even Ukraine’s biggest friends have all but stopped talking about the things Ukraine wants the most: victory and territorial integrity.

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Germany's likely next chancellor Friedrich Merz says Friday's exchange between US President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House was a "manufactured escalation".

"It was not a spontaneous reaction to interventions by Zelensky, but obviously a manufactured escalation in this meeting in the Oval Office," Merz tells a news conference in Hamburg, Reuters and AFP news agencies report.

Merz says Europe is now under pressure to act quickly: "We must now show that we are in a position to act independently in Europe."

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European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is preparing to inform member states about a plan to to strengthen the European defence industry and the European Union's military capabilities, Reuters news agency reports.

"Tomorrow, I will inform the member states through a letter about the rearm Europe plan," she's been telling reporters.

"We need a massive surge in defence, without any question.

"We want lasting peace, but lasting peace can only be built on strength, and strength begins with strengthening ourselves," she adds.

Huge challenges for Europe’s Ukraine planspublished at 13:00 Greenwich Mean Time

13:00 GMT

Frank Gardner
Security correspondent

Whatever words are used to frame the plans emerging from Sunday’s summit in London - ceasefire, truce or peace plan - the challenges are enormous.

First off, can Europe’s depleted armies and half-empty arsenals muster anything approaching a deterrent force to deploy to Ukraine? What nations, other than the UK and France, will be willing to send forces into such an uncertain scenario given the doubts over US support?

The idea, led by Sir Keir Starmer, is for Europe to come up with a credible proposal which can then be presented to President Trump in the hope - and I would emphasise that word "hope" - that he then agrees to provide a US military backstop. So far, that looks unlikely.

Finally, and most crucially, how likely is it that Russia will suddenly agree to the presence of Nato member troops in Ukraine? This is something Vladimir Putin has always been firmly opposed to, so it’s not even clear if pressure from the Trump administration would make him change his mind.

Especially when his army is slowly gaining ground on the battlefield.

Russia will be savouring this momentpublished at 12:47 Greenwich Mean Time

12:47 GMT

Danny Aeberhard
Europe regional editor, BBC World Service

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Publicly, at least, the Kremlin is containing the glee it no doubt feels over the events of recent weeks.

It started with the radical shift in US relations towards Moscow, initiated by President Trump, and reached a new level with what Russia sees as the public humiliation of Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House on Friday.

President Putin's spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, spoke of a fractured West. He's not wrong.

But European leaders are trying to formulate proposals to try to persuade the Trump administration to agree to joint security guarantees for Ukraine, to ensure any prospective peace would be fair and durable.

Peskov criticised plans by European countries to keep giving military aid to Kyiv, to resist invading Russian forces.

He has painted them as somehow "pro-war" - a suggestion that will attract scorn, especially given that he simultaneously emphasised that Russia's war against Ukraine would continue.

We're continuing to follow reaction from this past weekend's major Ukraine summit, which saw leaders gathering from across the world in London to discuss ending the war there - all while the conflict has continued to rage on throughout the night.

Here are the key takeaways so far:

• On last night's air strikes, Ukraine's president has told Russia that if it wants talks, then it should stop "target[ing] people with ballistic missiles"
• Russia sent more than 80 drones overnight, and in one attack in Kharkiv, eight people – including a seven-year-old – were injured, the city's mayor said
• This morning, the Kremlin has offered its first response about Friday’s Oval Office drama, and has accused President Zelensky of demonstrating “a total lack of diplomatic ability"

• There is "no agreement" about a UK-France backed truce deal in Ukraine, a UK minister told the BBC. Yesterday, the French president floated the idea to local media
• Meanwhile, Trump told his followers to worry less about Putin

The UK prime minister is also due to address the Commons after hosting a summit of Ukrainian allies on Sunday. We'll be here to bring you the latest lines as they come in. Stick with us.

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Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered a pause in cyber operations against Russia in new guidance to US Cyber Command, officials tell the BBC's US partner CBS News.

The reasoning for the instruction has not been publicly stated, and it is not clear how long the halt might last, with the defence department having declined to comment.

The directive reportedly came before Trump's televised row with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House on Friday.

According to cybersecurity publication, The Record - which first reported the news, external - hundreds or thousands of personnel could be affected by Hegseth's order. Operations aimed at strengthening Ukraine's digital defences are likely to be among those affected.

It leaves questions over the strength of the US fightback in the cyber arena against alleged Russian hacking, election interference and sabotage efforts that have targeted the Western nations which have sided with Ukraine during the war.

Read the full story here.

Vitaliy Shevchenko
BBC Monitoring's Russia editor

Ukraine has confirmed that Russia earlier carried out a successful strike on a training ground in Dnipropetrovsk region, resulting in numerous casualties.

“The training ground tragedy is an awful result of an enemy strike,” Mykhaylo Drapaty, head of the Ukrainian Ground Forces, says in a statement on Facebook, external.

He did not say how many Ukrainian troops were killed and injured, but earlier prominent Ukrainian journalist Yuri Butusov, external put the number at more than 30 killed and about a hundred injured.

Responding to media criticism of the fact that so many troops were allowed to be at the same place at the same time, Gen Drapaty says:

“Everyone who approved decisions on that day and everyone who did not approve them in time – all will be held accountable... I will demand the harshest of punishments.”

In a separate statement, external, Ukraine’s Ground Forces said an investigation has been launched into the attack, which was carried out on 1 March.

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French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot says Ukraine's "front line is getting closer and closer" to the European Union, increasing the chance of the war expanding.

Talking to France Inter radio, he says the risk of a war in Europe has never been "so high", because the "threat has been getting closer" for almost 15 years.

Barrot adds that Sunday's summit in London was the "awakening of a whole section of Europeans who refused to see the reality of things", who, he says, are now convinced that the continent needs to ensure its own defence and security.

In the immediate future, he says it is "possible" for conversations between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and US President Donald Trump to resume, saying there is a "shared awareness" of interests between Ukraine, the United States and Europe to put a stop to "imperialist desires".

Europe has been responding to reports of a potential one-month truce plan as suggested by French President Emmanuel Macron.

"Each country that can, should provide help" in any peacekeeping mission in Ukraine, including sending troops, Lia Quartapelle, the vice-chairwoman of Italy's parliamentary Committee on Foreign and European Affairs, tells BBC’s Newsday.

She says Sunday's summit in London is "key" to a solution, and that Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni - who maintains a good relationship with the US - should "help the UK and France in keeping the US on board".

Meanwhile, Michael Gahler, a German Member of the European Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee, says he has "no doubt" that his country will be part of the "coalition of the willing" once plans are finalised.

And says that while US support is "vital", Europe can also provide a lot of support "without an American boot on the ground".

Vitaliy Shevchenko
BBC Monitoring's Russia editor

There’s hope and scepticism in Ukraine after the London summit.

MP Oleksiy Honcharenko is happy that France and the UK are mediating between Ukraine and the US. “This is a good start,” he says on Facebook. But then, he wonders how the world ended up in a situation, where mediation was necessary with the US as it was talking to Russia.

“This is madness,” he adds.

Another commentator, former MP Boryslav Bereza, demands more decisive action. “Just loud pronouncements after the London summit,” he says on Facebook. “Europe is looking for a way of calming the conflict between Trump and Zelensky, but the Europeans are not ready to replace the US.”

A popular military analysis account on X, Tatarigami, argues that there’s only one thing that will help Ukraine, and it is not forthcoming yet:

“Bluntly speaking, nothing short of boots on the ground and readiness to shoot and be targeted if Russia violates a truce will be truly effective. And Europe isn’t prepared for that, at least not yet. Thus, sceptical.”

Vitaliy Shevchenko
BBC Monitoring's Russia editor

In his latest social media post, Zelensky accuses Russia of continuing what he calls "air terror" against Ukraine.

"Ukraine is fighting for a normal and safe life, which it deserves, for peace - fair and lasting. We want this war to end. But Russia doesn't and it continues its air terror. Over the past week, more than 1,050 attack drones, almost 1,300 bombs and more than 20 missiles were launched against Ukraine to destroy cities and kill people."

"If you want talks, don't target people with ballistic missiles. To make Russia stop the strikes, we need the world to be more united and stronger," Zelensky adds.

Ukrainian police say two people and three more were injured in Russian attacks in the Donetsk region over the past 24 hours, which has damaged or destroyed dozens of houses.

In a separate update, they also say five were killed in the southern Kherson region, and 13 more injured, including three police officers who were evacuating the body of a 63-year-old man killed in a drone strike.

Steve Rosenberg
Russia editor

In its first public comments about Friday’s Oval Office drama, the Kremlin has accused President Zelensky of demonstrating “a total lack of diplomatic ability".

“What happened on Friday in the White House showed how difficult it will be to move towards a resolution in Ukraine,” President Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists. He claimed that the Ukrainian authorities and President Zelensky “do not want peace. They want the war to continue".

That’s something Ukraine’s president firmly denies.

“Nobody wants the war to end more than Ukrainians,” said Volodymr Zelensky last Friday.

Ukraine’s president has called for a “just and lasting peace.” He believes that is impossible without security guarantees from the United States.

Asked whether he accepted that European countries had a role to play in settling the conflict, Peskov said that “any constructive initiatives will be in demand”. But he predicted that it would not be easy to “wash away the unpleasant residue that was likely left behind in the White House after talking to Zelensky.”

Referring to the London summit, Peskov said that calls to boost financing for Ukraine were “clearly not for a peace plan, but for the continuation of hostilities.”