By Kirsti Knolle, Olena Harmash and Tom Balmforth BERLIN/KYIV (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump has said Ukraine must be involved in talks about territory in any ceasefire deal with Russia, French President Emmanuel Macron said on Wednesday.

Zelenskyy said he told Trump that Putin “is trying to apply pressure ... on all sectors of the Ukrainian front” in an attempt to show that Russia is “capable of occupying all of Ukraine.” German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said European leaders and the Ukrainian president had a “constructive and good” discussion with Trump,

President Donald Trump on Wednesday threatened "severe consequences" against Russia if Vladimir Putin did not agree to stop his war on Ukraine. "There will be consequences," Trump said at the Kennedy Center in Washington as he took questions on his meeting on Friday with Russia's president in Alaska.