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Kyiv and its European allies demanded on Thursday that they be included in any peace negotiations, after U.S. President Donald Trump spoke by phone with Russia's Vladimir Putin and said Ukraine could neither have all of its land back nor join NATO.

After being blindsided by US President Donald Trump’s call with Russia’s Vladimir Putin, European leaders said they — and Ukraine — need to be part of any negotiation over Kyiv’s future. The biggest concern is that before any actual peace negotiations,

President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine and European defense ministers had expressed concern that they might not be present for talks between President Trump and Russia’s leader to end the war.

Kyiv region. A Russian strike on February 12 in Ukraine's capital killed one civilian and wounded four others, including a child. Donetsk region. A 46-year-old man died and five residents were wounded in a Russian glide bomb strike on the city of Kramatorsk on February 13.

After holding a phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Feb. 12, U.S. President Donald Trump once again claimed the "horrible, very bloody war" in Ukraine had cost "millions" of lives. It’s not the first time Trump has claimed that such numbers of people have been killed in the war.