Joe Inwood

He has just arrived at Downing Street.

We've seen him turn up and get a warm embrace from Sakhir Starmer.

He's there to meet as well as the British Prime Minister.

He's meeting Friedrich Merz of Germany and Emmanuel Macron of France.

These are the three biggest European backers of Ukraine.

And this is Europe putting a sort of metaphorical arm around Ukraine's president and its people and saying that whatever their diplomatic travails with Washington, that Ukraine still has European backing.

Yeah, tell us about that pressure on Ukraine from the US.

For weeks now, there have been this sort of back-and-forth sets of negotiations taking place between the US and Moscow and the US and Kiev, coming up with various forms of a peace plan, some sort of deal that will bring the war to an end.

Now, the first version of that, people have referred to many times as 28-point plan, was seen as being heavily weighted in Moscow's favour.

Some people said it was even written by the Russians.

There has been a back and forth since then, but really there's intensifying pressure from Washington on Kiev to accept some sort of peace deal.

Now, the latest form that's taken is these three-day talks in Miami.

We've seen high-level Ukrainian and U.S.

delegations trying to hammer out some form of new plan.

Now, we don't know.

Unlike in previous iterations, we don't know what the details of that are.

But we did get a sense from President Zelensky over the weekend when he said...

The conversations were constructive, but obviously very difficult.

And then there was that clip of President Trump that we heard just a few moments ago, in which he was pretty critical of President Zelensky.

We're seeing him returning to his quite often position of being, frankly, relatively hostile to the Ukrainian leader, saying he'd not even read the latest proposals.