‘We will do everything we can so that war does not remain the only option for how events unfold further,’ the Ukrainian president said.

"I am grateful for the information and for the necessary tone of the conversation with Russia," President Volodymyr Zelensky said.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Washington shares many of Kyiv's views on the front line and Russian strikes, adding that details of the meetings will come the next day.