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Donald Trump will later meet Ukraine's President Zelensky in Florida following weeks of intense diplomacy.
It began after the release of a 28-point plan which came out of negotiations between Washington and Moscow.
Ahead of his talks with Mr Trump, President Zelensky consulted with allies, briefly stopping off in Canada on Saturday to meet the Prime Minister Mark Carney.
At a news conference, President Zelensky said the latest Russian airstrikes on Kyiv demonstrated that Russia didn't want peace.
This attack is, again, Russia's answer on our peace efforts.
And it really shows that Putin doesn't want peace.
And we want peace.
And he's a man of war, but he's afraid to speak about it publicly.
But we see the steps.
And what we need, we need to stop this war.
The meeting between the US and Ukrainian presidents is expected to discuss the most politically sensitive parts of a US peace proposal that would ultimately be presented to Russia.
Our correspondent in Washington, Sean Dilley, told us what we can expect from the meeting.
The key areas that we would expect discussion on is the territory in the Donbass region of Ukraine that Russia would like for President Zelensky to hand over.
That's not something, obviously, that has gone down well with President Zelensky.
Instead, the two men are expected to talk about the possibility of a free economic area or a demilitarized zone where troops from Russia and Ukraine would pull out.
But, but, that's still an area that's going to be controversial with Russia because they've said that they were unhappy with some areas of the negotiations.
They say it was unacceptable.
And President Putin said just the day before the meeting that if there is not an agreement, then Russia would achieve its military ambitions with force if necessary.
That's the one key area.
But the other key area is what any security guarantee would look like.