But what are these major players thinking ahead of fresh US-Ukraine talks in Saudi Arabia next week? Five BBC correspondents have analysed the week's events. Tom Bateman, State Department correspondent,

European countries have intensified talks on sending peacekeepers to Ukraine to monitor and enforce a possible ceasefire. But the potential deployment of European peacekeepers to Ukraine faces a lot of challenges and uncertainties.

Europe doesn't know how to end Russia's war against Ukraine, stated US President Donald Trump, speaking to reporters. The American leader stated that he believed Europe didn't know how to end the war.

U.S. President Donald Trump raised the prospect of imposing large-scale U.S. sanctions on Russia on Friday, days after pausing military aid and intelligence support to Ukraine, and he called on both countries to get on with negotiating a peace deal.

European countries are uncertain about how to bring an end to the three-year Russia-Ukraine war, President Donald Trump said on Thursday. Taking questions at the Oval Office of the White House, the President reiterated his warning that the war could “end in World War III if we don’t settle.