Kiev, Ukraine (AP) – Ukrainian President Voldy Mirzelensky rejected it on Saturday The planned summit President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin have warned that the peace agreement except for Kiev will lead to a “dead solution.”
The Trump Putin Conference, scheduled for Friday in Alaska, is considered a potential breakthrough.
Trump previously agreed to meet with Putin, even if Russian leaders didn’t meet Zelensky, but Ukraine fears that Ukraine could be on the sidelines in an effort to stop the continent’s biggest conflict since World War II.
In a statement posted to Telegram, Zelensky said that the constitutional integrity of Ukrainian territory must be unnegotiable and that lasting peace must include the voice of Ukrainians at the table.
Zelenskyy said that Ukraine “will not give awards for what Russia has done,” and that “Ukrainians will not give land to the occupying people.”
Referring to Ukraine’s fears that an in-person meeting between Putin and Trump could alienate Kiev and Europe’s interests, Zelenki said:
Ukrainian officials previously told The Associated Press that Kiev was suited to a peace agreement that effectively recognizes that it cannot militarily recover Ukraine’s lost territory.
Summit
Trump said he would meet with Putin. Discussing about ending the war in Ukraine.
“It appears to be perfectly logical because of our delegation’s simple flying around the Bering Strait and such a critical and anticipated summit for both countries’ leaders in Alaska,” Putin’s foreign advisor Yuri Ushakov said on Saturday in a statement posted on the Kremlin news channel.
Such a summit may prove crucial in a war that began more than three years ago when Russia invaded its western neighbors and killed tens of thousands, but there is no guarantee that it will stop the battle since Moscow and Kiev remained. It’s far far away in terms of peace.
In comments to a White House reporter before the Post confirmed the date and location, Trump suggested that any agreement would likely include “an exchange of part of the territory,” but he did not provide details. Analysts, including people close to the Kremlin, suggest that they could offer to abandon territory controlled outside the four regions Russia claims to have annexed.
Trump said the meeting with Putin will come before a sit-in discussion involving Zelensky. His announcement that he planned to host one of America’s enemies in American soils broke the expectations they would meet in a third country. This gesture gives Putin a testimony after the US and its allies have long sought to pariah him over a war with Ukraine.
Ultimate and punishment
He was angry that Putin had not listened to his call to stop the bombing of Ukrainian cities. Trump, almost two weeks ago I gave him an ultimatum It imposes additional sanctions on Russia and introduces secondary tariffs targeting countries that buy Russian oil if the Kremlin fails to move towards a settlement.
The deadline was Friday. However, the White House did not answer that night’s questions about the state of sanctions after Trump announced an upcoming meeting with Putin.
His efforts had been to pressure Russia to stop the fight before Trump announced his meeting with Putin. There was no progress. The larger Kremlin troops are slowly moving towards Ukraine at great cost with troops and armor Relentlessly attack Ukrainian cities. Russia and Ukraine are far apart on their terms of peace.
Russia and Ukraine trade attacks
Regional governor Oleksandr Prokdin said two people were killed and 16 people were injured on Saturday when Russian drones struck a minibus outside the Ukrainian city of Carson. Regional governor Ivan Fedorov said two other people were killed after a Russian drone struck a car in the Zaporidia region.
The Ukrainian Air Force on Saturday intercepted that 16 of the 47 Russian drones had been released overnight, saying 31 drones had reached targets at 15 different locations. He also said that Russia fired down one of the two missiles it deployed.
Meanwhile, the Russian defense ministry said its air defense shot 97 Ukrainian drones over Russia and the Black Sea overnight until Saturday, and 21 more shots down on Saturday morning.
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Morton reported from London.
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The final line of this story was revised to say that 97 drones shot down Russia in Russia on Saturday morning and 21 was shot down.
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