Trump expresses some doubts about the individual meeting between Putin, Zelenskyy

President Trump, in an interview with The Daily Caller, a conservative American news site, which was published on Saturday, said he believed that three -way conversations involved Russian President Vladimir Putin, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy And he would still happen.

After Your separate meetings with Putin And Zelenskyy this month, Trump said he was organizing face -to -face conversations between Russian and Ukrainian leaders and then could meet with both if necessary. But in the daily call interview, Trump expressed less confidence that he can organize those bilateral conversations between Zelenskyy and Putin.

“We get along. You saw it, we have had a good relationship over the years, very good, in reality,” Trump said about Putin. “That’s why I really thought we would have done this. I would have loved having done it.”

Trump added: “A Tri would happen. A BI, I don’t know, but a tri will happen.”

For his part, Zelenskyy expressed Friday, so he called Russia’s lack of constructive commitment. He accused Russia of dragging the negotiations, even when postponing a Summit of Russia-Ukraine on the argument that the basic work for a possible peace agreement must be eliminated first by the main officials before the leaders meet.

That reasoning, Zelenskyy said to journalists, is “artificial … because they want to show the United States that they are constructive, but are not constructive.”

“In my opinion, leaders must get involved urgently to reach agreements,” Zelenskyy added.

Ukraine has accepted an US proposal for a high fire and a meeting between Putin and Zelenskyy, but Moscow has raised objections. Trump said last week that he would know in two weeks if Russia took the entry into negotiations seriously.

The European allies of Ukraine have accused Putin of dragging their feet in peace efforts and avoiding serious negotiations, while Russian troops move more deeply in the country.

Moscow’s forces are pounding an offensive “without stopping” along almost the entire 620 mile line in Ukraine, and have the “strategic initiative,” said Russia’s general personnel head on Saturday. Valery Gerasimov’s speech to his deputies was published by the Russian Ministry of Defense.

Since March, Moscow has taken more than 1,351 square miles of Ukrainian territory, and has captured 149 settlements, Gerasimov said. It was not immediately possible to verify the situation on the battlefield.

The Russian forces this month broke into the southeast region of Dnipropetrovsk in Ukraine, said a Ukrainian military official on Wednesday, pressing an eighth Ukrainian province in a possible attempt to strengthen the negotiation hand of the Kremlin. Gerasimov said on Saturday that Moscow troops have so far taken seven settlements in Dnipropetrovsk.

Russia launched a great air attack against southern Ukraine, authorities said on Saturday, Two days after a rare air attack In the center of Kyiv he killed 23 people and damaged the diplomatic offices of the European Union.

Among other places beaten, the assault during the night until Saturday reached a five -story residential building, killing at least a civilian and wounding 28 people, including children, in the Zaporizhzhia region, Governor Ivan Fedorov reported.

Russia launched 537 drones and lures Strike, as well as 45 missiles, according to the Ukraine Air Force. The Ukrainian forces demolished or neutralized 510 drones and lures and 38 missiles, he said.

The Kremlin said Thursday that Russia was still interested in continuing peace conversations, despite the air attack against kyiv that was one of the largest and mortal since the large -scale invasion of Moscow in 2022.

And following Another night attack On August 21 in which Russia attacked Ukraine with 574 drones and 40 missiles, Zelenskyy criticized Moscow for throwing the strike “as if nothing had changed at all. As if there was no effort for the world to stop this war.”

“Until now, there has been no sign of Moscow that they will really get involved in significant negotiations and will end this war. Pressure is needed. Strong sanctions, strong tariffs,” Zelenskyy wrote on social networks at that time.

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