Zelenskyy says that Trump-Poutin’s summit will not achieve anything, Ukraine votes will not give up the earth

The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, dismissed the planned summit between US President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, warning that any peace agreement excludes Kyiv It would lead to “dead solutions.”

In a statement published in Telegram, Zelenskyy said that the territorial integrity of Ukraine, enshrined in its constitution, must be not negotiable and emphasized that lasting peace must include the voice of Ukraine at the table.

Zelenskyy said that Ukraine “will not give Russia any prize for what he has done” and that “the Ukrainians will not give their land to the occupant.”

Touching Ukrainian anxieties that a direct meeting between Trump and Putin could marginalize the interests of kyiv and Europe, Zelenskyy said: “Any decision without Ukraine has at the same time decisions against peace. They will not bring anything. These are dead decisions. They will never work.”

Mr. Trump and Putin plan to meet Alaska on Friday, August 15 – A summit that looks like a possible advance.

A tall White House official told News themezone that planning the summit is fluid and that it is still possible that Zelenskyy ends up getting involved in some way.

The White House said earlier this week that Trump is open to meet with his Russian and Ukrainian counterparts, but Trump suggested on Friday that he could start meeting with Putin. He told reporters to “start with Russia.” Trump also said he believes that “we have an opportunity to organize a trilateral meeting with Ukrainian and Russian leaders.

In his comments to journalists, Trump also suggested that any agreement would probably imply “some exchange of territories”, but did not give details.

His announcement that he planned to organize one of the United States adversaries on American soil broke with the expectations that they would be in a third country. The gesture gives Validation to Putin after the United States and his allies had tried to make him a out of his war against Ukraine.

The US vice president, JD Vance, met with the European national security advisors on Saturday in the United Kingdom to discuss the Russian-Ukraine war, sources told News themezone. The meeting took place at Chevening’s house in Kent, where Vance is on vacation with his family.

The meeting, which is said to be at the request of the United States, included discussions about the next steps in Trump’s impulse for peace in Ukraine.

“The meetings of a time of today produced significant progress towards the objective of President Trump to end the war in Ukraine, before the next meeting of President Trump and President Putin in Alaska,” said a United States official to News themezone.

Ukrainian officials had previously told News in private that kyiv would be susceptible to a peace agreement that in fact recognized Ukraine’s inability to recover the militarily lost territories.

The summit would be the first face to face between Putin and an American leader since former President Joe Biden met with his Russian counterpart in Switzerland in June 2021eight months before Russia launched its large -scale invasion of Ukraine.

“It seems completely logical that our delegation flys through the Bering Strait simply, and for such an important and anticipated summit of the leaders of the two countries that will be held in Alaska,” said Putin Foreign Affairs Advisor Yuri Ushakov, on Saturday in a statement published in the Kremlin news channel.

Such a summit can be fundamental in a war that began more than three years ago when Russia invaded its western neighbor and has taken tens of thousands of deaths, although there is no guarantee that it stops the fighting since Moscow and kyiv remain very separated into their peace conditions.

Two people died and 16 were injured on Saturday when a Russian drone hit a minibus in the suburbs of the Ukrainian city of Kherson, said regional governor Oleksandr Prokudin. Two others died after a Russian drone hit his car in the Zaporizhzhia region, according to regional governor Ivan Fedorov.

The Ukraine Air Force said on Saturday that it intercepted 16 of the 47 Russian drones launched overnight, while 31 drones reached 15 different locations. He also said he knocked down one of the two missiles that Russia deployed.

Meanwhile, Russia’s Ministry of Defense said its air defenses knocked down 97 Ukrainian drones about Russia and the Black Sea during the night until Saturday, and 21 more on Saturday morning.

• Ukraine
• Donald Trump
• Russia
• Vladimir Putin
• Volodymyr Zelenskyy