Teri Schultz

European Union leaders from 27 countries met in an emergency session in Brussels on Thursday. They unanimously agreed to move forward on plans to dramatically scale up their defense investments.

European Union leaders have approved a major spending package on defense, where Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy — a non-EU leader invited to the summit — received a warm welcome.

European countries to prepare their own ceasefire plan with Ukraine

European leaders are meeting in London on Sunday for emergency talks on Russia and a peace plan for Ukraine.

European leaders are meeting for a second emergency summit in Paris to debate how to monitor a potential ceasefire agreement between Ukraine and Russia. It could mean deploying European troops.

President Trump's initiative to start peace negotiations between Russian President Putin and Ukrainian President Zelenskyy is expected to dominate the discussions at the Munich Security Conference.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is visiting with NATO. Allies were concerned that President Trump talked with Russia's Putin to push for a peace deal with Ukraine without notifying European countries.

President Trump says he will meet President Vladimir Putin in Saudi Arabia, after phone calls with the leaders of Russia and Ukraine to start peace negotiations.

Top Trump administration officials are in Europe this week, with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth attending his first NATO meeting and Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Paris to discuss Ukraine.

NATO has launched a naval mission aimed at protecting undersea infrastructure, cables and pipelines which Nordic and Baltic governments believe have become targets of sabotage, likely by Russia.