Zelenskyy to fulfill Trump on Monday
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy has confirmed that he plans to fulfill Trump in Washington on Monday after Trumps’s summit with Putin.
“Ukraine reaffirms its readiness to work with most effort to realize peace,” Zelenskyy mentioned on X on Saturday.
“We assist President Trump’s proposal for a trilateral assembly between Ukraine, the USA, and Russia. Ukraine emphasises that key points could be mentioned on the degree of leaders, and a trilateral format is appropriate for this,” he added.
We had an extended and substantive dialog with @POTUS. We began with one-on-one talks earlier than inviting European leaders to affix us. This name lasted for greater than an hour and a half, together with about an hour of our bilateral dialog with President Trump.
Ukraine reaffirms… pic.twitter.com/64IPVhtFaB
— Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) August 16, 2025
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Manufacturing facility blast in Russia’s Ryazan kills 11, injures 130
A blast at a manufacturing facility within the Russian area of Ryazan on Friday killed 11 individuals and left 130 injured, Russia’s emergencies ministry mentioned on Saturday.
In a press release on Telegram, the ministry mentioned rescuers had been persevering with to look via rubble on the scene of the blast, 200 miles (320km) south-east of Moscow.
The Ryazan regional governor, Pavel Malkov, mentioned on Friday that the incident had been triggered by a fireplace breaking out inside a workshop on the manufacturing facility.
There was no trigger given for the fireplace, not was it clear what the manufacturing facility produced. Ukrainian drones have beforehand focused navy and financial infrastructure in Ryazan area. In January, a serious oil refinery and energy station had been hit by Ukrainian drones.
Some Russian media shops reported that the explosion was attributable to gunpowder catching fireplace.
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European leaders communicate with Trump post-Alaska summit
The French president, Emmanuel Macron, spoke on the cellphone with Donald Trump and European companions on Saturday morning after the assembly between Trump and Vladimir Putin in Alaska, the Élysée workplace mentioned in a press release on Saturday.
The cellphone dialog lasted for one hour and different there have been seven different European leaders current, together with Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Friedrich Merz, Keir Starmer, Giorgia Meloni, Alexander Stubb and Karol Nawrocki, in addition to the secretary common of Nato, Mark Rutte, the assertion mentioned.
We’re but to listen to from Sir Keir Starmer’s authorities, however different European politicians have been reacting.
Italy’s deputy PM, Matteo Salvini mentioned: “Each step ahead in the direction of peace, like this one, is nice information. As Pope Leo mentioned, could diplomacy communicate once more instead of weapons, with out anybody obstructing it.”
The Norwegian overseas minister, Espen Barth Eide, mentioned: “President Putin of Russia reiterated recognized arguments, similar to emphasising the so-called ‘root causes’ of the battle, which is code for the Russian justification for the unlawful invasion of Ukraine.” He added it was vital to maintain strain on Russia and take heed to Ukraine’s needs and wishes.
The Czech overseas minister Jan Lipavský mentioned he was “glad that President Trump is attempting to cease the battle” however that there was “propagandistic nonsense concerning the ‘roots of the battle’” from Putin within the subsequent press convention.
“The issue is Russian imperialism, not Ukraine’s need to stay freely,” he continued. “If Putin had been critical about negotiating peace, he wouldn’t have been attacking Ukraine all day at present.”
Lithuania’s defence minister, Dovilė Šakalienė, accused Putin of creating “some extra gaslighting and veiled threats” in the direction of Ukraine and Europe within the press convention, through which the Russian chief mentioned he hoped the international locations “is not going to attempt to sabotage the talks”.
Hungary’s PM, Viktor Orbán, wrote on Fb: “For years, we’ve watched the 2 largest nuclear powers eradicate the framework of their cooperation and ship messages to one another.” He added “It’s over now. The world is a safer place at present than it was yesterday.”
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Trump: ‘I believe a quick deal is best than a ceasefire’
President Trump informed Zelenskyy and Nato leaders that Putin doesn’t need a ceasefire and prefers a complete settlement to finish the battle, the Axios reporter Barak Ravid posted on X. The publish added that Trump has mentioned: “I believe a quick peace deal is best than a ceasefire.”
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Medvedev: negotiations attainable throughout Russian battle effort
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Russia’s preliminary response to the Donald Trump-Vladimir Putin summit has been decisively optimistic, with Moscow highlighting that the Russian chief met his US counterpart with out making concessions and now faces no sanctions regardless of rejecting Trump’s ceasefire calls for.
“The assembly proved that negotiations are attainable with out preconditions and concurrently with the continuation of the ‘particular navy operation’,” wrote the previous president Dmitry Medvedev on Telegram, utilizing Russia’s most well-liked time period for its invasion of Ukraine.
Medvedev, now the deputy chair of Russia’s safety council, welcomed the truth that Putin was in a position to “personally and intimately current” Russia’s maximalist circumstances for ending the battle. In Alaska, Putin repeated his acquainted line that the “root causes” of the battle should be addressed – calls for that in observe would severely restrict Ukraine’s sovereignty.
He additionally picked up on Trump’s remarks that the strain now lies with Kyiv, not directly referring to the previous US president’s blunt message that Zelenskyy “gotta make a deal”.
“Each side straight positioned duty for attaining future leads to negotiations on ending navy actions on Kyiv and Europe,” Medvedev wrote.
Russian state media and the Kremlin elite had been already in excessive spirits as Trump rolled out the pink carpet for Putin, who is needed by The Hague for battle crimes.
“Western media are on the verge of fully shedding it,” wrote the overseas ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova as Putin landed in Alaska.
“For 3 years they informed everybody Russia was remoted and at present they noticed a wonderful pink carpet laid out for the Russian president within the US,” she added.
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Zelenskyy to fulfill Trump on Monday
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy has confirmed that he plans to fulfill Trump in Washington on Monday after Trumps’s summit with Putin.
“Ukraine reaffirms its readiness to work with most effort to realize peace,” Zelenskyy mentioned on X on Saturday.
“We assist President Trump’s proposal for a trilateral assembly between Ukraine, the USA, and Russia. Ukraine emphasises that key points could be mentioned on the degree of leaders, and a trilateral format is appropriate for this,” he added.
We had an extended and substantive dialog with @POTUS. We began with one-on-one talks earlier than inviting European leaders to affix us. This name lasted for greater than an hour and a half, together with about an hour of our bilateral dialog with President Trump.
Ukraine reaffirms… pic.twitter.com/64IPVhtFaB
— Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) August 16, 2025
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Zelenskyy to fulfill Trump in Washington on Monday – stories
The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, is planning to fulfill Donald Trump in Washington as quickly as Monday, the Axios reporter Barak Ravid mentioned on X on Saturday.
Zelenskyy has mentioned that his name with Trump lasted greater than an hour and a half, and that Ukraine helps trilateral conferences. He added that Europe needs to be a part of these talks in any respect phases.
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Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin met on a pink carpet laid down for them at a US navy base within the former Russian territory of Alaska, and spent about three hours in non-public talks, with high overseas coverage aides, geared toward ending the battle in Ukraine. Ukrainian observers had been horrified that Trump laid out a pink carpet for Putin, and even applauded him.
The assembly, billed as a summit, got here to an finish a lot sooner than scheduled, after the primary of what was purported to have been two rounds of talks.
Reporters had been summoned for what was billed as a joint information convention, however had been as an alternative handled to a pair of transient statements that lasted, in whole, 12 minutes. After Putin claimed that some kind of settlement had been reached, Trump mentioned that there had been ‘no deal’ after which abruptly ended the occasion, taking no questions.
The White Home mentioned Trump has had a “prolonged” name with the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, and Nato leaders, on the airplane after the assembly earlier than he returned to DC.
The assembly was criticised by Democrats, some European officers, Ukrainian media shops, Ukraine’s ambassador to Australia, and the previous US nationwide safety advisor, John Bolton, who mentioned “Putin clearly received”.
A Fox Information reporter referred to as it “actually gorgeous” that Putin spoke first within the occasion.
In a post-summit interview together with his supporter Sean Hannity, Trump mentioned that the assembly with Putin had been “a ten” and instructed that Putin “spoke very sincerely” about his need to finish the battle in Ukraine.
Trump additionally claimed to Hannity that Putin, the Russian autocrat who has jailed, exiled and killed political rivals who might problem him in elections, informed him that the 2020 US presidential election “was rigged” and “you may’t have an trustworthy election with mail-in voting.’”
Trump reportedly hand-delivered a letter from his spouse, Melania, to Putin on the assembly. The letter raised the plight of kids kidnapped in the course of the battle in Ukraine – for which Putin is needed by the worldwide prison courtroom – White Home officers mentioned, with out offering additional particulars.
In a single day, Russia launched 85 assault drones and a ballistic missile focusing on Ukraine’s territory, Ukraine’s air drive mentioned.
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Few in Ukraine are shocked on the obvious lack of final result within the Alaska summit. There was little to no expectation of progress in the direction of a ceasefire, by no means thoughts an precise cessation of hostilities, given Putin’s lengthy historical past of aggression and intransigence in the direction of the nation.
Although Trump mentioned that the leaders had a “very productive assembly”, the look on his face instructed in any other case. Vital for Ukraine’s management at present will likely be to grasp if Putin’s maximalist negotiating place has adjusted in any respect – and the way the US chief responded to the calls for of his Russian counterpart.
Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy has mentioned repeatedly that he didn’t consider that Putin was an excellent religion negotiator and has expressed the assumption that Donald Trump would ultimately conclude the identical for himself. The hope in Kyiv will now be that Trump could be gently steered in the direction of nearer assist for Ukraine and think about shifting ahead with measures similar to secondary sanctions on Russia oil exports.
However there may be additionally a grim nervousness. Russian missile and drone assaults into Ukraine have been diminished within the days working as much as the summit. Now the assembly is over, the concern is {that a} return to massive scale evening time assaults might observe.
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Vladimir Putin stays decided to “revive the Soviet Union” by “destroying democracy subsequent door”, Ukraine’s ambassador to Australia, Vasyl Myroshnychenko, has mentioned.
Talking to Australia’s nationwide broadcaster, within the wake of the assembly, Myroshnychenko pushed again on Putin’s rhetoric about needing to unravel the “root causes” of the battle.
He mentioned the foundation reason behind the battle from Putin’s perspective was a sovereign, unbiased and democratic Ukraine.
“When Putin talks concerning the ‘root reason behind battle’, it’s an unbiased Ukraine on the map of Europe. That’s the one reason behind battle for Russia,” he mentioned.
“Putin is simply on the market on his mission to revive the Soviet Union, to revive the Russian empire, and it could’t be revived with out Ukraine. Simply in a single day, as we communicate, Russians have attacked many Ukrainian cities, despatched many drones. So we don’t actually see any indication of him ending his battle.”
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No dialogue of a Trump-Putin-Zelenskyy assembly – Kremlin aide
The Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov says there was no dialogue of a three-way summit between the Russian, US and Ukrainian presidents, the Russian state information company Tass reported.
After the assembly, Trump had informed reporters it was now as much as Zelenskyy to “get it accomplished” and {that a} assembly can be arrange between the Ukrainian president and Putin, which Trump would possibly attend.
Ushakov mentioned he didn’t know but when Putin and Trump would meet once more after Friday’s summit in Alaska.
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