French President Emmanuel Macron is doubling down on his commitment to securing a Ukraine-Russia ceasefire that has clear security guarantees.

"We want peace. A peace that does not mean Ukraine's capitulation or a ceasefire without guarantees," he says in a post on X this morning.

"One that provides the conditions for long-term Ukrainian sovereignty. One in which we assume our responsibilities for our collective security."

These comments follow his meeting with US President Donald Trump yesterday, during which the French president stressed that any peace deal must "not be a surrender of Ukraine".Both Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron are in Donald Trump's diary this week - while Macron had his meeting yesterday, Starmer's flies out for his tomorrow.

Like the French leader, Starmer has also been accused by Trump of having done nothing to end the war in Ukraine - though in the same breath Trump then said he considered Macron to be a "friend", and called the British prime minister a "very nice guy".

The UK leader has also seemingly responded to Trump calling Ukraine's president a "dictator", as Starmer has described Zelensky as his country's "democratically elected leader".

Within their separate visits, Macron and Starmer will be looking to present a united front to Trump. In a phone call on Sunday, the two "compared notes" on how best to approach the US president, government sources told the BBC.