The UK and France have urged Russia's President Vladimir Putin to prove he wants a peace deal with Ukraine, ahead of talks between Putin and Donald Trump on Tuesday. French President Emmanuel Macron hailed the "courage" of Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenksy in agreeing to a ceasefire proposal,

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov says Russian President Vladimir Putin met with U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff to discuss details of the American proposal for a 30-day ceasefire in the war with Ukraine

French President Emmanuel Macron stated that both France and Canada are demanding clear commitments from Russia regarding peace in Ukraine. He believes that peace must be accompanied by security guarantees,

Russia will seek "ironclad" guarantees in any peace deal on Ukraine that NATO nations will exclude Kyiv from membership and that Ukraine will remain neutral, a Russian deputy foreign minister said in remarks published on Monday.

A Russian deputy foreign minister accused French President Emmanuel Macron of offering up his soldiers to distract from domestic issues.

But his assertion in a speech this weekend that some Americans “have chosen to switch to the side of the tyrants” reflects the broad shockwaves that U.S. President Donald Trump's seismic shifts in foreign and domestic policy are triggering in France and elsewhere in Europe.

France gifted the Statue of Liberty to the United States in 1884 and was later dedicated by former President Grover Cleveland in New York City in 1886. An i nscription on the statue reads: “Give me your tired, your poor. Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.”

The Telegraph reported that Glucksmann, a member of the European Parliament, said that the iconic Lady Liberty should be returned because the U.S. no longer represents the values that led France to offer us the statue almost 140 years ago.