European officials not part of discussions as Volodymyr Zelenskyy warns his country will not recognise peace deals made without Ukrainian participation

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Headlines in European newspapers today were dominated by the emergency meeting of leaders in Paris after a week in which the US sidelined Europe and Ukraine from ceasefire negotiations and made it plain the US should not be relied upon for the region’s security, Helen Livingstone reports.

The summit came a day before today’s US-Russia meeting in Riyadh but ended with little unity on crucial points, including the idea of sending a European peacekeeping force to the country.