Kremlin gives more details about Trump-Putin’s summit like Ukraine

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer welcomed the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy To London on Thursday, one day before a critics from the United States. Summit in Alaska.

“Yesterday, together with all the partners, today in a bilateral format, we discussed the expectations of the meeting in Alaska and possible perspectives,” Zelenskyy said in a publication on social networks after the meeting. “We also discuss in detail the security guarantees that can make peace really sustainable if the United States still manages to press Russia to stop the murders and participate in significant real diplomacy. It is important that we can all work together within a coalition of those willing to achieve effective formats for security work.”

Zelenskyy’s trip to the British capital occurred one day after participating in virtual meetings in Berlin with President Trump and leaders from several European countries. These leaders said that Trump had assured them that it would be a priority to try to achieve a high fire in Ukraine during his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday in Anchorage.

Putin held a meeting in Russia on Thursday with members of Russia’s leadership to prepare for the Alaska meeting. As part of that preparatory meeting, he said he wanted to discuss the negotiation process with Ukraine and how he was going.

Putin also said that he planned to “talk about the scenario in which we are with the current US administration, which, as everyone knows, is making, in my opinion, quite energetic and sincere efforts to stop the fight, stop the crisis and achieve interest agreements for all parties involved in this conflict.”

Kremlin’s assistant, Yuri Ushakov, said Thursday that Friday’s meeting between Trump and Putin in Alaska will start around 11:30 am local time on Friday. The main theme will be the War in Ukrainebut there will also be discussions about economic cooperation between Washington and Moscow.

He said the meeting will take place at the Elmendorf-Richardson Air Force base, and that there will first be an individual meeting between the two leaders before their delegations join.

Trump and Putin will say some words at the beginning of the meeting, said Ushakov, and then they will hold a joint press conference.

Ushakov said that each delegation will have five members. For Russia, those will be Ushakov, as well as Russia Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, Russian Defense Minister Andrei Belousov, head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund Kirill Dmitriev and Russian finance minister, Anton Siluanov.

Alaska Summit “Hugely Important”

Both Zelenskyy and Europeans have worried that the bilateral summit of the United States Russia will leave them already their marginalized interests, and that any conclusion achieved could favor Moscow and leave the future security of Ukraine and Europe in danger.

However, some of those leaders, such as German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and French president Emmanuel Macron, praised Wednesday’s videoconference with Trump as constructive.

Speaking after the meetings for journalists, Trump warned about “very serious consequences” for Russia if Putin does not accept to stop the war against Ukraine after Friday’s meeting.

Starmer said Wednesday that Alaska’s summit would be “enormously important” and could be a “viable” path to a high fire in Ukraine. But he also alluded to European concerns that Trump can reach an agreement that forces Ukraine to yield territory to Russia, and warned that Western allies must be prepared to intensify the pressure on Russia if necessary.

During a call on Wednesday among the leaders of the countries involved in the “coalition of the provisions”, those who are prepared to help the police any future peace agreement between Moscow and kyiv, Starmer stressed that any agreement reached an end to the fighting must protect the “territorial integrity” of Ukraine.

“International borders cannot be, and should not be changed by force,” he said. “Any talk about borders, diplomacy, high fire has to sit next to a robust and credible security guarantee to ensure that any peace, if there is peace, is lasting for peace and Ukraine can defend its territorial integrity as part of any agreement.”

kyiv has insisted for a long time that the safeguards against future Russian attacks provided by their western allies would be a previous condition to achieve a lasting end for the fight in Ukraine. However, many Western governments have doubted to commit to involve their military personnel.

The countries of the “Willing Coalition”, which include France and the United Kingdom, have been trying to ensure the security support of the United States in case it is necessary. After Wednesday’s virtual meetings, Macron said Trump told the leaders that, although the NATO military alliance should not be part of the future security guarantees, the US leader agreed that “the United States and all the parties involved should participate.”

“It is a very important clarification that we have received,” Macron said.

The president of the European Council, Antonio Costa, also welcomed “the preparation of the United States to share with Europe the efforts to strengthen security conditions once we obtain lasting and fair peace for Ukraine.”

“I don’t see any change”

With another high -level meeting in the future of their country on the horizon, some Ukrainians expressed skepticism that any progress will be achieved during the Russia Summit on Friday.

Oleksandra Kozlova, 39, head of department at a digital agency in kyiv, told The News on Wednesday that he believes that the Ukrainians “have already lost hope” that they can move significant at the end of the 3 1/2 -year war.

“I don’t think this round is decisive,” he said. “There have already been enough meetings and negotiations that promise us, common people, that something will be resolved, that things will improve, that the war will end. Unfortunately, this has not happened, so I personally do not see any change.”

Anton Vyshniak, a car seller in kyiv, said that Ukraine’s priority should now be saving the lives of their military people, even at the expense of making territorial concessions.

“At this time, the most important thing is to preserve the lives of male and female military personnel. After all, there are not many human resources,” he said. “Borders are borders, but human lives are priceless. Therefore, some principles can be ignored here.”

Russian attacks in the Sumy region of Ukraine during the night on Wednesday resulted in numerous injuries, Ukrainian regional officials said. A missile strike in a village in the Seredyna-Budska community wounded a 7-year-old girl already a 27-year-old man, according to regional governor Oleh Hryhorov. The girl was hospitalized in stable condition.

In the southern Kherson region, the Russian artillery fire hit the town of Molodizhne on Thursday morning, wounding a 16 -year -old, said regional governor Oleksandr Prokudin. The adolescent suffered an explosive injury, the shrapnel injured in his arms and legs and an acute stress reaction. He was hospitalized in moderate conditions, said Prokudin.

In Russia, an oil refinery in the Volgograd region caught fire after a Ukrainian drone attack during the night, according to local governor Andrei Bocharov. The refinery, one of the largest producers of oil derived products in southern Russia, has been a frequent objective of drone attacks, according to the Russian independent news site.

In general, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported destroying 44 Ukrainian drones about the Russian regions and the Crimea attached during the night.

Haley Ott contributed to this report.

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