Ednews reports citing the Elysée Palace that around twenty European leaders will meet in Paris late on Monday afternoon to send Russian President Vladimir Putin a message of determination on Ukraine and counter the Kremlin's talk of Russia's victory.

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is expected to attend via videoconference, Macron’s office said. The more than 20 European heads of state and government include German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Polish President Andrzej Duda. The United States will be represented by its top diplomat for Europe, James O’Brien, and the U.K. by Foreign Secretary David Cameron.

The declaration comes amidst rising tensions between Ukraine and its Polish neighbour. Indeed, the Ukrainian government and Polish police announced that several wagons containing maize, which Kiev claims came from Ukraine, were opened and their contents dumped on a Polish railway line on Sunday. Dmytro Kuleba, the Ukrainian foreign minister, said that his country's reaction would not be emotional: "We will not play into the hands of those who are trying to divide Ukraine and Poland once and for all.