Ukraine president pays tribute to ‘absolute heroism’ of Ukrainians as EU leaders arrive in Kyiv

The EU’s foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas has said she will travel to the US on Tuesday to meet with secretary of state Marco Rubio, to discuss EU-US relations and the talks between the US and Russia on ending the war in Ukraine, Reuters reports.

Hungary’s foreign minister Péter Szijjártó has chosen the third anniversary of Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine to post to Facebook to announce that his country is unwilling to press ahead with the extension of sanctions on Russian individuals at the European Union’s foreign ministers meeting on Monday.