European powers have said that there can be no negotiation about the war in Ukraine without Ukraine and Europe at the table.
It comes as US President Donald Trump said he had spoken to Russian President Vladimir Putin about bringing an end to the war.
Shona Murray, Europe correspondent with Euronews, Larry Donnelly, law lecturer at University of Galway, and Edward Burke, lecturer in War Studies at UCD, join The Last Word to discuss.
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