British Prime Minister Kiel Starmer is expected to welcome Ukrainian President Voldimi Zelensky in London on Thursday morning.
Zelensky’s trip to the UK capital comes a day after he attended a virtual meeting from Berlin with US President Donald Trump and leaders of European countries. Those leaders said they assured Trump would make the priorities he was trying to achieve. Ukraine’s ceasefire When he meets Russian President Vladimir Putin on friday Anchorage.
Both Zelensky and the Europeans are worried that the bilateral US-Russia summit will leave them and abandon their interests, and the conclusions they reach support Moscow and are at stake in the future security of Ukraine and Europe with Russia’s fourth year full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
However, several leaders like German Prime Minister Friedrich Merz and French President Emmanuel Macron praised the video conference with Trump on Wednesday as constructive. Talk after a meeting with the reporter, Trump warned of “very serious consequences” for Russia If Putin doesn’t agree to stop War with Ukraine After their Friday meeting.
Territory integrity
Wednesday’s priority said the Alaska Summit was “very important” and could be a “workable” path to a ceasefire in Ukraine. However, he also hinted at European concerns that Trump could launch a deal that would force Ukraine to transfer territory to Russia, warning that Western allies should prepare to strengthen pressure if necessary.
In a call on Wednesday among the leaders of the country involved in the “coalition of will,” those ready to police a future peace deal between Moscow and Kiev — stressed that the deal reached to end the fight must protect Ukraine’s “territorial integrity.”
“International borders cannot be forced to change, and once again, as a long-standing principle of this group, and on top of that, the talk of borders, diplomacy and ceasefires, if there is peace, peace can hold back some of the territory.
Some Ukrainians are skeptical
At another high-level meeting on the nation’s future on the horizon, some Ukrainians expressed skepticism that a breakthrough would be achieved during the US Russia summit on Friday.
Oleksandra Kozlova, 39, head of Kyiv’s digital agency, told The Associated Press on Wednesday that he believes the Ukrainians are “already losing hope.”
“I don’t think this round is decisive,” she said. “Normal people, there were already enough meetings and negotiations to promise us that something would be resolved, things would get better, and the war would end. Unfortunately, this did not happen, so personally, there hasn’t changed.”
Kyiv’s auto salesman Anton Vyshniak said Ukraine’s priority is to save military service lives, even at the expense of territorial concessions.
“At this point, the most important thing is to sustain the lives of male and female servicemen. After all, there is no much of the human resources left,” he said. “Borders are boundaries, but human life is precious. So, here we can ignore some principles.”
Russia and Ukraine trade attacks
Regional Ukrainian officials said on Wednesday that a Russian strike in Ukraine’s Smie region was injured overnight. Regional Governor Ole Frikholov said missile strikes in the village of Seredina Bazka community injured a 7-year-old girl and a 27-year-old man. The girl was hospitalized in a stable condition.
In the South Herson area, Russian artillery fires struck the village of Molodizhne on Thursday morning, injuring a 16-year-old boy, said area governor Oleksandr Plokdin. The teenager suffered an explosive injury, rap shots wounded on his arms and legs, and an acute stress response. He was hospitalized in moderate condition, Prokdin said.
In Russia, oil refineries in the Volgograd region sparked a fire after a Ukrainian drone attack was attacked overnight, according to Governor Andrei Bokrov. According to the independent Russian news site Meduza, one of the largest producers of petroleum products in southern Russia, refineries are a frequent target for drone attacks.
Overall, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported that it had destroyed 44 Ukrainian drones that annexed the Russian region and Crimea overnight.
In Belgorod, the largest city in the region of the same name on the border with Ukraine, three civilians were injured in a drone attack in Ukraine, Governor Viakeslav Gladkov added that the government buildings had been hit by the attack.
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