Zelenskiy to meet Biden and Macron as Kyiv rallies western support for war effort

Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, speaks during a meeting with Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos Jr in Manila on Monday. Photograph: Jam Sta Rosa/Getty ImagesThe talks will take place as many leaders gather in Normandy to mark 80 years since the D-Day landings, and amid heavy fighting and air strikes in Ukraine and final preparations for a Kyiv-led peace summit in Switzerland to which Moscow is not invited.

Mr Macron’s administration said he would meet Mr Zelenskiy on Friday in Paris to discuss the situation in Ukraine “as Russian strikes intensify on the front line and against energy infrastructure”.Luxembourg landlord Marc Godart renting beds to refugees in premises without fire certificate Moscow has claimed, without providing evidence, that French military trainers are already in Ukraine masquerading as “mercenaries”, and warned this week that any foreign soldiers in the country could be targeted by Russian forces.

“We’ve said several times on the record that we’re not planning to send US military advisers … to train Ukrainians in Ukraine,” Mr Sullivan said.

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