Ukraine: Presidents discuss end to war

(Photo by Ting Shen/Bloomberg via Getty Images) ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Download a free worksheet ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ The story Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky returned to the White House on Monday to meet US President Donald Trump for new talks aimed at ending the war in Ukraine. Several European leaders also flew to Washington to attend the meeting, days after Trump met Russia's President Vladimir Putin in Alaska. The leaders discussed a possible ‘security guarantee’ which would involve European countries and the US helping protect Ukraine if a peace deal was reached with Russia.  Donald Trump says he doesn’t believe a ceasefire between Ukraine and Russia is necessary to end the war and that an agreement can be reached between the countries. But other leaders are concerned about negotiations, and don’t want to accept Putin’s demands – for example, to keep land captured by Russian forces in Ukraine. News headlines What both sides want from crunch talks at the White House BBC News Europe’s Leaders Headed Off Giveaway to Putin, but Emerged Without a Clear Path New York Times Four key takeaways from Trump’s White House summit on Ukraine The Guardian Key words and phrases crunch talks important and urgent discussions head something off stop something unwanted from happening takeaway important piece of information to know or remember Next  Learn more English vocabulary from the news with our Learning English from the News archive. To learn more phrasal verbs like 'head something off', try Phrasal verbs with Georgie.  Find a list of all our programmes.