Macron warns against ‘surrender’ in Ukraine as Trump says Putin will accept peacekeeper deal

Macron and Trump disagree over aid and securing a lasting peace after US president says Russian counterpart has ‘no problem’ with European forces in Ukraine

US president Donald Trump and French president Emmanuel Macron embrace during a joint press conference in the East Room at the White House on Monday. Mr Macron is meeting with Trump in Washington on the third anniversary of Russia's full-scale military invasion of Ukraine. Picture: Tasos Katopodis/Getty

Emmanuel Macron, the French president, has warned Donald Trump against a “surrender” of Ukraine as the US president said Russia’s leader Vladimir Putin “wants to make a deal” that could include European peacekeepers.

The transatlantic rift over the war was apparent on Monday as Trump and Macron – the first European leader to visit the White House since Trump regained power – disagreed over aid and efforts to secure a lasting peace in Ukraine.