LONDON — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy claimed on Tuesday that Russian President Vladimir Putin is getting ready for “new offensive operations” regardless of Friday’s looming peace summit in Alaska.
Fierce frontline fight and long-range drone and missile strikes are ongoing because the U.S. and Russia put together for Friday’s assembly. Ukrainian representatives aren’t anticipated to attend, although a supply in Zelenskyy’s workplace instructed ABC Information on Monday that “every little thing may be very fluid.”
Zelenskyy and his officers have gone on a diplomatic offensive forward of the assembly, looking for to shore up international assist behind Ukraine’s key calls for in any peace deal.
On Monday, Zelenskyy prompt that Putin will not be prepared to finish the preventing, regardless of Friday’s assembly in Alaska.
Citing a report from his intelligence and army instructions, Zelenskyy stated in a press release that Putin “is certainly not getting ready for a ceasefire or an finish to the struggle. Putin is set solely to current a gathering with America as his private victory after which proceed performing precisely as earlier than, making use of the identical stress on Ukraine as earlier than.”
Ukrainian Presidential Press Service on June 27, 2024, wherein Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky seems on throughout a signature ceremony of Settlement on Safety Cooperation and Lengthy-term Help between Ukraine and Estonia in the course of the European Council Summit on the EU headquarters in Brussels, Donald Trump trying on throughout a gathering with France’s President on the Elysee Palace in Paris, on December 7, 2024, and Russian President Vladimir Putin as he provides a speech throughout an occasion to mark the 1160th anniversary of Russia’s statehood in Veliky Novgorod on September 21, 2022.
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“To date, there is no such thing as a indication by any means that the Russians have acquired indicators to organize for a post-war scenario,” he added. “Quite the opposite, they’re redeploying their troops and forces in ways in which counsel preparations for brand spanking new offensive operations.”
“If somebody is getting ready for peace, this isn’t what he does,” Zelenskyy stated.
Zelenskyy has stated Kyiv won’t cede any territory to Russia, won’t abandon its NATO ambitions and won’t enable any limitations on its armed forces.
Amongst Moscow’s calls for are that Ukraine cede a number of areas — not all of that are managed by Russian troops — within the south and east of the nation, settle for curbs on the dimensions and class of its army and be completely excluded from NATO. Putin additionally desires all worldwide sanctions on Russia to be lifted within the occasion of a peace deal.
Russia’s calls for, Zelenskyy has stated, represent an try and “partition Ukraine.”
President Donald Trump on Monday described the approaching summit as a “really feel out assembly,” telling reporters, “I am getting in to talk to Vladimir, and I’ll be telling him, ‘You bought to finish this struggle. You bought to finish it’.”
“And on the finish of that assembly, in all probability within the first two minutes, I am going to know precisely whether or not or not a deal could be made,” Trump stated.
When requested how he would know if a deal is feasible, the president replied, “As a result of that is what I do. I make offers.”
A Ukrainian sapper detonates an explosive gadget throughout a coaching session in Kharkiv area, Ukraine, on August 9, 2025.
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ABC Information’ Ellie Kaufman, Oleksiy Pshemyskyi, Kelsey Walsh and Michelle Stoddart contributed to this report.
