Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says he is ready to take Donald Trump to the front of the war in Ukraine. “I think if we have a dialogue about how to end the war, we need to show decision-makers what real war means, not on Instagram,” he said.

The Ukrainian army had to withdraw on Saturday from the town of Avdiika, in the east of the country, conceding to Russia its greatest symbolic victory after the failure of the counter-offensive launched by kyiv.