Trump's Ukraine envoy Keith Kellogg said on Saturday Europe would not have a seat at the table for Ukraine peace talks after Washington sent a questionnaire to European capitals to ask what they could contribute to security guarantees for Kyiv.
"(French President Emmanuel Macron) will convene the main European countries to discuss European security," Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot told France Inter radio, adding that the Monday meeting would be a working session that should not be "over-dramatised".
The French presidency has not announced the meeting, although invitations have been sent for the summit to take place on Monday afternoon, diplomats said.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz will attend the summit, German government sources told Reuters.
As will Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, a member of Poland's upper house of parliament said.
They said the meeting aimed to see what immediate help can be given to Ukraine, what concrete role Europe can play in providing security guarantees for Kyiv as well as how to strengthen Europe's collective security.
It was not clear whether anything concrete would come out of it, they said.
Six European diplomats said invites had gone at least to Britain, Germany, Poland, Italy, Denmark, which would represent Baltic and Scandinavian countries, the European Union leadership and the NATO Secretary General.
Since a phone call between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, there have been concerns in Europe and Ukraine that Europeans might be excluded from any peace agreement.
There are fears that Trump does not want Europeans at the negotiating table, yet expects them to bear the burdens of implementing a peace solution.
Negotiations for peace in Ukraine are meanwhile gaining momentum: in the coming week, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and senior Russian representatives are reportedly set to meet in Saudi Arabia to discuss an end to the Russian war.
Additionally, a meeting between Trump and Putin is to be prepared in the Arab kingdom.
According to Politico, no European representatives are expected to be present at next week's talks in Saudi Arabia.
Citing a Ukrainian official, the US outlet reported that Ukraine will also not send representatives there.
Meanwhile, Russian drone strikes have damaged a thermal power plant in Mykolaiv in southern Ukraine overnight, leaving at least 100,000 people without heating as temperatures plunge below freezing, top Ukrainian officials said on Sunday.
"This has nothing to do with the fighting and the situation at the front, but it proves once again that the Russians are fighting against our people and against life in Ukraine," President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on the Telegram messenger.
"And they are fighting meanly, without relieving pressure. This is not what those who really want peace to be restored and are preparing for negotiations do."
Earlier, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said the attack on the power plant was "done deliberately to leave people without heat in sub-zero temperatures and create a humanitarian catastrophe".
Russia attacked Ukraine with 143 drones overnight but Ukrainian military said it had shot down 95 of them while 46 did not reach their targets, likely thanks to the use of electromagnetic countermeasures that disrupt drone attacks.
At least one person was injured in the overnight attacks which also damaged houses in the Kyiv region, Ukrainian officials said.
The temperature in Mykolaiv is expected to fall to -7 degrees Celsius on Sunday night.
Zelenskiy again urged Western allies to give Ukraine more air defences, with Russia now holding 20 per cent of Ukrainian territory and slowly advancing in the east as Moscow's full-scale invasion nears its third anniversary.
He cited data showing that in the past week Russia had unleashed about 1220 aerial bombs, over 850 drones and more than 40 missiles into government-controlled areas of Ukraine.
with dpa
