Russian drone attacks continue in Ukraine as the Vatican renew the supply of help
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Zelenskyy hits Putin by No-Show in the conversations
Russian drone strikes He continued in Ukraine, killing nine people, authorities said, since the Vatican renewed his offer to help both parties in the efforts to reach a peace agreement.
The strikes, and the renewed offer of the Vatican, arrive hours after Moscow and kyiv had held their first direct peace conversations in years that failed to cease fire. Russian and Ukrainian officials met on Friday in Istanbul in an attempt to reach a high temporary fire, but the conversations ended after less than two hours without progress, since they remained very separate in key conditions to end the fighting and Putin was not a show.
President Trump said on social networks on Saturday that he plans to talk to Putin on Monday. “The calls of the call will be, to stop the ‘Bloodbath” that is killing, on average, more than 5000 Russian and Ukrainian soldiers per week, and trade, “Trump wrote in all capital letters, and added that he would talk to President Zelenskyy and NATO members after his call with Putin.
It was the first face to face between the two parties from the first weeks of Moscow’s large -scale invasion of February of Ukraine.
The “Blood Bath” continues
Zelenskyy said he had discussed the result of Istanbul’s conversations with US President Donald Trump and the leaders of France, Germany, Great Britain and Poland.
On Saturday, the bloodbath continued, since Ukrainian officials said a The Russian drone hit a bus evacuating civilians FROM A first -line area in the Northeast Region of Sumy of Ukraine, killing nine people.
Seven people were also injured in the attack in Bilopillia, a city about 6 miles from the Russian border, three of them seriously, according to local governor Oleh Hryhorov and the National Police of Ukraine. News could not verify the report independently. There were no comments from Moscow.
The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, described the attack as “deliberate civilians,” adding a position in the telegram messaging application that “the Russians could barely realize what type of vehicle were hitting.”
He regretted the lost opportunity of the peace of peace on Friday, saying that “Ukraine has proposed this for a long time: a high full and unconditional fire to save lives.”
“Russia only retains the ability to continue killing,” Zelenskyy added.
Vatican renovations offers to help
The Secretary of State of the Vatican, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, repeated the Vatican’s offer to serve as a place for direct conversations, saying the failure of negotiations in Istanbul Reaching a stop the fire this week was “tragic.”
The Secretary of State of the United States, Marco Rubio, was in Rome on Saturday and told reporters before meeting with Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, the Vatican man in Ukraine, would discuss the possible ways in which the Vatican could help.
When asked if the Vatican could be a peace corridor, Rubio replied: “I would not call it a runner, but it is certainly, I think it is a place that both parties would feel comfortable.”
“So we will talk about all that and obviously always grateful to the Vatican for his willingness to play this constructive and positive role,” said Rubio, who also met Saturday with the Secretary of State of the Vatican and Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Spokesman Tammy Bruce said in a statement that Secretary Rubio met with the cardinal to discuss the urgent need to end the Russia-Ukraine war. “He emphasized the importance of continuous collaboration under the new leadership of Pope Leo XIV,” said the statement.
Leo, who was chosen The first American Pope in History on May 8he took the call to the peace of Francis in Ukraine on his first Sunday at noon blessing as Pope. He appealed that all parties did whatever possible to reach “an authentic, fair and lasting peace.”
As bishop in Peru, Leo had called the War of Russia as an “imperialist invasion,” he promised this week “to make all efforts so that this peace can prevail.”
In a speech to the Catholics of the Eastern rite, including the Greek Catholic Church of Ukraine, Leo begged sides at war that would gather and negotiate.
“The Holy See is always ready to help unite enemies, face to face, talk to each other, so that people can find hope once again and recover the dignity they deserve, the dignity of peace,” he said.
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