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Hello and welcome to NewsHour from the BBC World Service coming to you live from London.

I'm Julian Warwick.

It's been a day big on diplomatic activity, but light on clarity as far as the future of the war in Ukraine is concerned.

President Zelensky has indicated that he's ready to meet President Trump to discuss what are seen as the most sensitive points of the U.S. drafted peace agreement.

But he wants his European allies there too, something he told a group of European

leaders known collectively as the Coalition of the Willing. Ukraine has made amendments to a framework

for peace, but it's not clear if Russia will accept those revisions. And the White House has referred

to what it called delicate details, which still have to be thrashed out

with Moscow. President Trump, though, has said he's sending his envoy, Steve Whitkoff, to meet

President Putin in Moscow in the hope of finalising the peace plan for Ukraine that Washington

drafted. He says that's now been fine-tuned. More on that in a moment.

But all of this diplomatic effort can't disguise the impact the war continues to have on ordinary Ukrainians.

There was another large-scale drone and missile attack overnight.

James Waterhouse has sent this report from Kyiv.

In Ukraine's capital, the power of Russia's invasion is a constant threat at night,

unaffected by the undulating peace efforts.

At least seven people were killed in Kiev after waves of Russian drones and missiles. For a peace deal to last in Ukraine,

both sides will have to stop the attacks. Senior US officials are meeting their Russian counterparts

in Abu Dhabi, as well as Ukraine's head of military intelligence. But as this Kiev resident,

Valeri, watches rescue teams at a damaged apartment block,

he isn't optimistic anything will change.

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