European and Ukrainian leaders will hold a video call with U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday in a bid to persuade him not to sell out Ukraine and give in to Putin's demands to secure a ceasefire.
A meeting with European leaders will come just two days before Trump and Putin meet in Alaska for crunch talks on the fate of war-weary Ukraine.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky arrived in Berlin on Wednesday ahead of meetings with European allies and the US leader.
Putin, shunned by much of the West since ordering the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, will meet Trump on Friday in what the U.S. president has described as a 'feel-out' discussion aimed at ending the war.
The uncertainty over what the Alaska talks could produce has raised fears in European capitals that Trump and Putin might take major decisions without Kyiv's involvement.
