Donald Trump said on Wednesday, after talking to Russian President Vladimir Putin, that their delegations would “start negotiations immediately” to end the war, blindsiding European capitals.

After a frenetic 24 hours of US declarations, there is a tangible sense that Europe's leaders have been surprised.

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who received a call from Trump after the Putin conversation, is set to attend the Munich forum. He has repeatedly said that a European-only security guarantee ...

European officials fear they will have to bear the cost of postwar security and reconstruction as they reel from being cut ...