War in Ukraine

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After Gaza, is Trump turning his attention to Ukraine?

US President Donald Trump is due to meet Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday
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  1. Custody shots of Jake Reeves, left, and Dylan Earl

  2. Zelensky and Starmer at podiums, with flags in the background

  3. Sir Keir Starmer, wearing a blue suit, shaking hands with Ukraine's leader Volodymyr Zelensky, draped in all-black, outside the door of Number 10 Downing Street

  4. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky

  5. Victor Kiryanov, president of the Russian Automobile Federation, with then-F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone at the Russian grand prix in Sochi in 2017

  6. On the left is a picture of Russian President Vladimir Putin wearing a black tie and suit and white shirt, his eyebrows raised, looking serious. On the right is a picture of US President Donald Trump also looking serious, wearing a blue suit, red tie and white shirt.

  7. Trump and Putin in Alaska

  8. A general view shows the oil refinery of the Lukoil company in Volgograd, Russia

  9. A man looks at a destroyed building in Kyiv

  10. A solider with his face covered

  11. Firefighters trying to put down fire after strike on Belgorod, Russia

  12. A man runs from the scene of a blast in Kharkiv

  13. low-observable, long range air launched cruise missile displayed at Paris Air Show with the MBDA logo. The air to surface weapon from the European manufacturer MBDA at the company's booth at International Paris Air Show 2025 in Le Bourget Airport

  14. Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump shake hands in front of lettering that reads "pursuing"

  15. Russian President Vladimir Putin (left) and US President Donald Trump. File photo

  16. A woman wearing a dark-coloured winter coat stands next to a table with cups, a kettle and plug points on it in an "invincibility centre" - where people can get an internet connection, charge their devices and warm up, amid a water and electricity supply outage in Chernihiv. A man sits on a chair behind the woman using his phone, while another is standing behind her also holding his phone. They are standing inside a large tent.

  17. Ukrainian soldiers, in camouflage military clothing, stand in a trench during a training exercise. Behind them, more personnel are standing in an otherwise empty, brown field.

  18. Trump and Zelensky pictured outside the White House on Friday 17 October.

  19. Donald Trump, wearing a white short and chequered violet and white tie speaks as Volodymyr Zelensky all in black looks up to him smiling

  20. Russian President Vladimir Putin boards a plane following a US-Russia summit on Ukraine at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska

  21. Donald Trump shakes Volydmyr Zelensky's hand

  22. Alexander Stubb on left wears a dark suit, white shirt and dark purple tie, with glasses. He is speaking, his hands up for emphasis. On the right, Donald Trump is wearing a blue suit, white shirt and red tie, as he listens.

  23. Stylised image showing a map of Ukraine overlaid with images of tanks and a soldier holding a shoulder launcher

  24. Bernd Debusmann is asking a question to Trump on the left and President Trump is on the right.