By Ben Aris in Berlin The exports of two of Ukraine’s biggest export earners, corn and metal, are falling, which will squeeze the already cash strapped government and make a €20bn trade deficit with the EU worse in 2025.

The White House disputes the officials’ account, saying Trump believes Russia is winning in Ukraine but still wants peace.

Olha Stefanishyna, Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration and Justice Minister, has stated that the European market remains open to Ukrainian goods and that there are currently no plans to suspend the EU-Ukraine free trade regime.

President Trump’s insistence that the United States do less toward securing Europe means that allies, scrambling to arm themselves, have less to give to Ukraine.

Spanish authorities say an adviser to former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych was killed outside the American School of Madrid.

Senior European officials are in talks with the Trump administration to finalize an agreement on a 30-day ceasefire in Ukraine that would impose new sanctions on Russia if President Vladimir Putin doesn’t budge,

During a trip intended to showcase European unity, France’s president, Emmanuel Macron, the new German chancellor, Friedrich Merz, and the British and Polish prime ministers, Keir Starmer and Donald Tusk, arrived in Kyiv early Saturday to hold talks with the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky.

Looking to improve business ties and promote checking Russian aggression, the European Union’s ambassador to the United States visited Ohio.