Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia refusing to accept a cease-fire complicated efforts to end the Moscow conflict over three years, After a summit between the United States and the Russian presidents did not give any agreement on the end of the war: “We see that Russia resumes many calls to a cease-fire and has not yet determined when it stops the murder. “If they do not have the will to achieve a simple order to stop strikes, this can take a lot of effort for Russia to have the will to implement a much greater – peaceful coexistence with its neighbors for decades.” Trump said he had agreed with Putin that a peace agreement should be asked without the prior cease-fire that Ukraine and his European allies, so far with American support, have demanded. Ukrainian and European leaders fear that an agreement directly at the Peace, jumping a preliminary ceasefire, gives Moscow the top in the talks.
After meeting with Vladimir Putin on Friday, Donald Trump told European leaders that he had supported a plan to end the Ukrainian-Russia war by giving up unsightly land in Russia, The New York Times has reported two senior European officials. The officials said Trump would discuss the plan with Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Monday when the Ukrainian president visits the White House, adding that European leaders were invited to join. Trump said earlier that kyiv should conclude an agreement with Moscow because “Russia is very great power, and this is not the case.”
European officials will decide this weekend if Zelenskyy will be accompanied during the visit to WashingtonGerman Minister for Foreign Affairs Johann said on Saturday. European leaders, including Macron, Merz and Starmer, should discuss problems with Zelenskyy on Sunday by video call before his meeting with Trump, the French president’s office said in a statement. A joint statement published by European leaders said they were “ready to work with US President Trump and Ukrainian President Zelenskyy to a trilateral summit with European support”, but “it will be up to Ukraine to make decisions on its territory. International borders should not be modified by force ”.
The leaders of eight Nordic Baltic nations said on Saturday that they were firmly staying in their support for Ukraine and Trump’s efforts to end the Russian assault against Ukraine. The leaders of Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway and Sweden declared in a statement that peace between Ukraine and Russia required a cease-fire and security guarantees for Ukraine: “We welcome the President Trump’s statement.
At the top of Alaska, Putin asked Ukraine to withdraw from Donetsk and Luhansk as a condition for ending the war, but offered Trump a frost along the remaining front line, two sources with direct knowledge of the talks told the Guardian. Although Luhansk is almost entirely under Russian control, Ukraine still holds key parts of Donetsk, including the cities of Kramatorsk and Slovians and highly fortified positions whose defense cost tens of thousands of lives.
Eight pages of US government planning documents for the summit meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin were left in a hotel printer in Anchorage before Friday meeting, NPR reported. The documents, which have been published online by NPR, seem to have been produced by officials of the Trump administration in charge of the summit planning and included the specific locations and hours of the scheduled meetings, as well as the telephone numbers of the US government employees.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney welcomed what he said was the American opening to the provision of security guarantees to Ukraine as part of a peace agreement to end the Russia War against kyiv. “Robust and credible security guarantees are essential to any fair and lasting peace. I salute the opening of the United States to provide security guarantees as part of the effort of the will,” Carney said in a statement.
Donald Trump delivered a personal letter from First Lady Melania Trump to the Russian chief Vladimir Putin raising the fate of the Ukrainian and Russian children caught in the middle of the ongoing war between the two European countries, he reported on Saturday. The content of the letter was unknown – but two officials of the Trump administration told Reuters that he had mentioned children’s kidnappings resulting from the war after Russia has invaded Ukraine in 2022. However, the text of the letter, which was obtained online by Fox News on Saturday, is extremely opaque and makes no reference to the reduction of Russian Russian.
Vladimir Putin said his visit to Alaska was “useful and timely,” Russian news agency Tass reported on Saturday. Putin also added that his conversation with Trump was “sincere and substantial”, adding that Russia respects the position of the United States and also wants to settle the Ukrainian conflict peacefully.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov spent calls on Saturday with his Turkish and Hungarian counterparts, the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said. The telephone call between Lavrov and Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan took place on the initiative of Turkey, said the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and exchanged opinions on the Russian-US meeting, without further drawing up.
The Ukrainian army said it had rejected the Russian forces by about 2 km (1.2 mile) on part of the Sumy front in northern Ukraine. There was no immediate commentary on Russia, which controls just over 200 km2 in the region, according to the Battlefield mapping project of Ukraine, Deepstate.
