Our First Edition newsletter today features my colleague Archie Bland summing up the developments over the weekend since the contentious meeting in the White House between Donald Trump, JD Vance and Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Here is an excerpt:

If the White House has sought to villainise Zelenskyy’s behaviour in the Oval Office meeting and continue to present him as an unpopular leader whose people want him out of office, reporting from Ukraine tells a very different story. In this piece from the city of Odesa, Luke Harding hears from ordinary Ukrainians dismayed by the White House’s warmth towards the Kremlin, and who insist their president remains the right man for the job.

“This is our affair. Zelenskyy is our president. He got 73% of the vote. We should decide,” says Olena Palash, who works at a children’s clinic destroyed by Russian attacks. She also says: “Everything is back to front. After three years of war, I’m astounded. Trump doesn’t understand who the aggressor is.”

Trump’s treatment of Ukraine in recent days goes beyond even what Russia might have expected, and the Kremlin appears eager to make the most of its diplomatic advantage. Sergei Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister, praised Trump for “behaving correctly” in an interview reported by state news agency Tass on Sunday. “Donald Trump is a pragmatist,” he said. “His slogan is common sense. It means, as everyone can see, a shift to a different way of doing things.”

Perhaps most tellingly, he sought to draw a clear line between Europe and the US under Trump’s leadership. The Trump team “say directly that they want to end all wars, they want peace”, Lavrov said. “And who demands a ‘continuation of the banquet’ in the form of a war? Europe.”

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Jean-Noël Barrot has suggested that a month’s truce in Ukraine would show if Russian president Vladimir Putin was acting in good faith.

Speaking on RTL Radio, France’s foreign minister picked up an earlier suggestion by French president Emmanuel Macron that there could be a month’s truce covering air, sea and attacks on critical infrastructure.

Reuters reports Barrot said a pause would show if Putin was acting in good faith and if he would be willing to start negotiations in earnest on a longer-term peace deal.

Barrot added that he thought that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and US President Donald Trump could be willing to re-engage in direct talks after last week’s debacle in the Oval Office.

Hello and welcome to our live coverage of news from across Europe in the wake of a crucial defence summit in London at which UK prime minister Keir Starmer warned Europe is “at a crossroads in history” and must act to support Ukraine to secure a lasting peace.

After the summit, US President Donald Trump warned that the US should worry less about Vladimir Putin and spend more time worrying about drug lords and murderers among other things “So that we don’t end up like Europe!”

After defending the Russian president during a press conference in which he publicly berated Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday, Trump dismissed concerns about his growing closeness with Moscow in a post on Truth Social late on Sunday.

Hours earlier, European leaders rallied around Zelenskyy at the summit in the UK, where they vowed to support Ukraine after his disastrous meeting with Trump last week. Starmer said the UK, France and others would work with Ukraine on a plan to stop the fighting, and discuss that plan with the US before taking it forward together.

The Ukrainian leader said there had been no communications at his level with the White House since his meeting with Trump but said a deal for the US to jointly exploit minerals in his country – which was supposed to have been inked on Friday – was ready to be signed.

Last week’s row between Ukraine and the US highlighted the growing chasm between Europe and the US and the president’s latest comments will do nothing to reassure European leaders that the transatlantic alliance is still solid.

In other developments:

• Zelenskyy, sought to move the conversation forward from his difficult meeting with Trump on Friday saying it was “best left to history”, as he signalled Ukraine’s readiness to sign the minerals deal and hoped for “constructive” talks with the US administration on the next steps

• Speaking to reporters after frantic 72 hours, Zelenskyy drew his red lines by saying he would not accept giving any occupied territory away to Russia and insisted on remembering that Russia was the aggressor in the conflict

• The Ukrainian leader said the country needed strong security guarantees or otherwise would face the risk of Russia seeking to restart hostilities with false claims about Ukrainian violations, as it did in the past

• Zelenskyy said he hoped that a UK-French initiative for peace would bear fruit “in coming weeks”, with a number of other countries declaring their interest in being involved in providing security guarantees for Ukraine

• His comments come after French president, Emmanuel Macron, floated the idea of a one-month limited ceasefire that would apply to air, sea and attacks on critical energy infrastructure. Zelenskyy didn’t offer any suggestion if he would accept the proposal, but said he was “aware of everything”

• British prime minister, Keir Starmer, earlier announced details of a new £1.6bn UK export finance contract for Ukraine allowing it “to buy more than 5,000 air defence missiles” to help the country’s defence against Russia, as he concluded a London summit with European, Turkish and Canadian leaders

• Starmer also confirmed plans to form “a coalition of the willing” to enforce a potential peace deal in Ukraine, which he said the UK was prepared “to back with boots on the ground and planes in the air”

• Nato secretary general, Mark Rutte, said a number of Nato countries had signalled their plans to increase defence spending, as he urged media to “stop gossiping about what the US might or might not do”, and insisted the country remained committed to Nato

• Polish prime minister, Donald Tusk, said he hoped the EU’s plans to be unveiled next week would “send a very clear impulse showing Putin and Russia that no one here, in the west, intends to surrender to his blackmail and aggression”

• Canadian prime minister, Justin Trudeau, offered a passionate defence of Zelenskyy, saying that in his comments in the Oval Office on Friday “he pointed out in so many words that Vladimir Putin is a liar and a criminal and cannot be trusted to keep his word in any way”

• After the summit, Zelenskyy also met with King Charles at his estate in Sandringham, where the pair had tea together for nearly an hour. The visit has been seen in Westminster as an attempt to even out treatment of the Ukrainian and US presidents after Starmer invited Donald Trump for a state visit last week

It is Martin Belam with you from London. You can contact me at martin.belam@theguardian.com.