The U.K. and Germany are leading a NATO meeting Monday to discuss sending weapons to Ukraine. British and German defense officials are hosting the virtual talks, joined by U.S. and NATO leaders.

When Russian and Ukrainian peace negotiators met last month, they could agree on little more than exchanging bodies. Those negotiations, brokered by the Trump administration, appeared to show its goal of ending the war was deeply stalled.

Russia now controls more than two-thirds of Ukraine’s Donetsk region — the main theater of the ground war. Russian forces have carved out a 10-mile-deep pocket around the Ukrainian troops defending the crucial city of Kostiantynivka, partly surrounding them from the east, south and west.

Australia's government said on Saturday it had delivered M1A1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine as part of a A$245 million ($160 million) package to help the country defend itself against Russia in their ongoing war.

The Pentagon moved Germany to the front of the line for the air-defense systems after President Trump said allies will pay for additional Ukraine weapons.

Britain and Germany are set to pledge new air defense systems for Ukraine as the UK government pushes for a “50-day drive” to arm Kyiv and bring Russian President Vladimir Putin to the negotiating table.

Fresh off securing a plan to receive more U.S. weaponry, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has appointed a new prime minister – the key negotiator of his country’s deal with the U.S. to partner on the development of minerals.

Founded in 2014 by Modrzewski and Finnish partner Pekka Laurila as a provider of radar imagery of moving ice blocks to Arctic shipping companies, Iceye has become a supplier of military applications since Russia’s all-out invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Its valuation has grown “significantly higher” than $1bn, Modrzewski said.