Welcome back to our live coverage of the war in Ukraine after a flurry of diplomatic activity yesterday.

Donald Trump held calls with Volodymyr Zelenskyy, then Vladimir Putin, and then Zelenskyy again alongside a number of other Western leaders.

The US president triumphantly announced Russia and Ukraine will “immediately start negotiations toward a ceasefire”, without explaining how this was any different from the non-starter negotiations that began in Turkey on Friday.

Putin had sent a low-level delegation to those talks with the aim of dragging them out, according to many analysts, so he can continue making battlefield advances.

Putin gave a less upbeat report on his call with Trump, saying the root causes of the conflict must be eliminated – language the Russian leader often uses as code to mean the removal of Zelenskyy and the installation of a Russian proxy government, as well as the incorporation of five illegally annexed Ukrainian regions into Russia.

At a news conference later, Trump threatened to pull out of peace talks if he thought Putin didn’t want to end the war.

Meanwhile, Zelenskyy said Kyiv and its allies were considering arranging a high-level meeting between Ukraine, Russia, the US, EU countries and the UK.

Stay tuned as we bring you more live updates and analysis throughout the day. And for a recap of events yesterday, read our full story here: