In a rebuke to the Americans, UK defence secretary John Healey warned: "There can be no negotiation about Ukraine without Ukraine and Ukraine's voice must be at the heart of any talks.
At a Nato meeting in Brussels in Thursday, he said: "There is a recognition that the whole world and the United States is invested and interested in peace, a negotiated peace, as President Trump has said, stopping the killing.".
While the exact details of the Trump and Putin's deal remain unknown, it appears that America will acquiesce to Russia keeping Ukrainian land and prevent Kyiv from joining Nato - long a goal of the Kremlin.
European leaders have been left fuming that they and Ukraine appear to have been cut out of talks by Trump before the peace process even started to end the three-year-old war.
DONALD Trump has been warned against cutting a deal with tyrant Vladimir Putin ahead of talks to end Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
