Before Washington meeting with Donald Trump, Zelenskyy says Russia rebuffing calls for ceasefire makes it harder to achieve peace deal to end the more than three-year-old conflict. What we know on day 1,271.
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Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia refusing to accept a ceasefire was complicating efforts to end Moscows more than three-year-long conflict, after a summit between the US and Russian presidents yielded no deal on ending the war: We see that Russia rebuffs numerous calls for a ceasefire and has not yet determined when it will stop the killing. This complicates the situation, Zelenskyy said in a social media post late Saturday. If they lack the will to carry out a simple order to stop the strikes, it may take a lot of effort to get Russia to have the will to implement far greater C peaceful coexistence with its neighbors for decades. Trump has said that he had agreed with Putin that a peace deal should be sought without the prior ceasefire that Ukraine and its European allies, until now with US support, have demanded. Ukrainian and European leaders fear that a straight-to-peace deal, skipping over a preliminary ceasefire, gives Moscow an upper hand in talks.
After his meeting with Vladimir Putin on Friday, Donald Trump told European leaders that he supported a plan to end the Ukraine-Russia war by ceding unconquered land to Russia , the New York Times reported, citing two senior European officials. The officials said Trump will discuss the plan with Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Monday when the Ukrainian president visits the White House, adding that European leaders have been invited to join. Trump earlier said that Kyiv should make a deal with Moscow because Russia is a very big power, and theyre not.
European officials will decide this weekend whether Zelenskyy will be accompanied on the visit to Washington , German foreign minister Johann Wadephul said on Saturday. European leaders, including Macron, Merz and Starmer, are set to discuss the issues with Zelenskyy on Sunday via video call ahead of his meeting with Trump, the French presidents office said in a statement. A joint statement issued by European leaders said they were ready to work with US President Trump and Ukrainian President Zelenskyy towards a trilateral summit with European support but it will be up to Ukraine to make decisions on its territory. International borders must not be changed by force.
The leaders of eight Nordic-Baltic nations said on Saturday that they remain steadfast in their support for Ukraine and to the efforts by Trump to end the Russian aggression against Ukraine . The leaders of Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, and Sweden said in a statement that achieving peace between Ukraine and Russia requires a ceasefire and security guarantees for Ukraine: We welcome President Trumps statement that the US is prepared to participate in security guarantees. No limitations should be placed on Ukraines armed forces or on its cooperation with other countries, the statement said.
At the Alaska summit, Putin demanded Ukraine withdraw from Donetsk and Luhansk as a condition for ending the war, but offered Trump a freeze along the remaining frontline, two sources with direct knowledge of the talks told the Guardian. Although Luhansk is almost entirely under Russian control, Ukraine still holds key parts of Donetsk, including the cities of Kramatorsk and Sloviansk and heavily fortified positions whose defence has cost tens of thousands of lives.
Eight pages of US government planning documents for the summit meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin were left in a hotel printer in Anchorage before the meeting on Friday, NPR reported . The documents, which were posted online by NPR, appear to have been produced by Trump administration officials in charge of summit planning and included the precise locations and times for the scheduled meetings, as well the phone numbers of US government employees.
Canadian prime minister Mark Carney welcomed what he said was US openness to providing security guarantees to Ukraine under a peace deal to end Russias war against Kyiv. Robust and credible security guarantees are essential to any just and lasting peace. I welcome the openness of the United States to providing security guarantees as part of Coalition of the Willings efforts, Carney said in a statement.
Donald Trump hand-delivered a personal letter from first lady Melania Trump to Russian leader Vladimir Putin raising the plight of Ukrainian and Russian children caught in the middle of the ongoing war between the two European countries, it was reported on Saturday. The contents of the letter were unknown C but two Trump administration officials told Reuters that it mentioned the abductions of children resulting from the war that broke out after Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022. However, the text of the letter, which was obtained and posted online by Fox News on Saturday, is extremely opaque and makes no reference at all to the abductions or transfer of children from Russian-occupied Ukraine to Russia.
Vladimir Putin has said that his visit to Alaska was useful and timely, the Russian news agency Tass reported on Saturday. Putin also added that his conversation with Trump was sincere and substantive, adding that Russia respects the position of the US and also wants to settle the Ukrainian conflict peacefully.
Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov held calls on Saturday with his Turkish and Hungarian counterparts, the Russian foreign ministry said . The phone call between Lavrov and Turkish foreign minister Hakan Fidan took place at Turkeys initiative, the Russian foreign ministry said, and exchanged views on the Russia-US meeting, without elaborating further.
The Ukrainian military said it had pushed Russian forces back by about 2km (1.2 miles) on part of the Sumy front in northern Ukraine. There was no immediate comment from Russia, which controls a little over 200 sq km in the region, according to Ukraines battlefield mapping project DeepState.
在与唐纳德·特朗普于华盛顿会晤前,泽连斯基表示,俄罗斯拒绝停火呼吁使得结束这场持续三年多的冲突的和平协议更难达成。以下是第1271天我们所了解的情况。
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弗拉基米尔·泽连斯基表示,在美俄总统峰会未能达成结束战争的协议后,俄罗斯拒绝接受停火使结束莫斯科方面持续三年多的冲突的努力复杂化。他在周六晚间的社交媒体发文中称:'我们看到俄罗斯拒绝了多次停火呼吁,且尚未确定何时停止杀戮。这使局势复杂化。'他补充道:'若俄方连停止袭击这样简单的指令都缺乏执行意愿,那么要让其愿意实现更宏大的目标——与邻国和平共处数十年——可能需要付出巨大努力。'特朗普称已与普京达成共识,应寻求和平协议而非乌克兰及其欧洲盟友(此前一直得到美国支持)所要求的预先停火。乌克兰和欧洲领导人担忧,跳过初步停火直接达成和平协议会让莫斯科在谈判中占据上风。
据《纽约时报》援引两名欧洲高级官员的话报道,唐纳德·特朗普周五与弗拉基米尔·普京会晤后告知欧洲领导人,他支持通过将未占领土地割让给俄罗斯来结束俄乌战争的计划。官员们表示,特朗普将于周一乌克兰总统弗拉基米尔·泽连斯基访问白宫时与其讨论该计划,并补充说欧洲领导人已受邀参与。特朗普此前曾表示,基辅应与莫斯科达成协议,因为“俄罗斯是一个非常大的强国,而他们不是”。
德国外交部长约翰内斯·瓦德普尔周六表示,欧洲官员将于本周末决定是否安排泽连斯基在访问华盛顿时获得陪同。法国总统府在一份声明中称,包括马克龙、默茨和斯塔默在内的欧洲领导人计划于周日通过视频会议与泽连斯基讨论相关问题,为其与特朗普的会晤做准备。欧洲领导人发表的联合声明表示,他们"准备与美国总统特朗普和乌克兰总统泽连斯基合作,在欧洲支持下推动三方峰会",但强调"乌克兰领土上的决定权属于乌方自身。国际边界不得以武力强行改变"。
北欧-波罗的海八国领导人周六表示,他们坚定支持乌克兰,并支持特朗普为结束俄罗斯对乌侵略所作的努力。丹麦、爱沙尼亚、芬兰、冰岛、拉脱维亚、立陶宛、挪威和瑞典领导人在联合声明中指出,实现乌俄和平需要停火及对乌克兰的安全保障。声明称:"我们欢迎特朗普总统关于美国准备参与安全保障的声明。不应限制乌克兰武装部队或其与其他国家的合作。"
据两位直接了解会谈情况的消息人士向《卫报》透露,在阿拉斯加峰会上,普京要求乌克兰从顿涅茨克和卢甘斯克撤军作为结束战争的条件,但向特朗普提议在剩余战线维持冻结现状。尽管卢甘斯克几乎完全被俄罗斯控制,乌克兰仍坚守着顿涅茨克的关键地区,包括克拉马托尔斯克和斯拉维扬斯克两座城市,以及防御代价高达数万人生命的坚固阵地。
据美国国家公共电台(NPR)报道,特朗普与普京峰会前,八页美国政府筹备文件被遗留在安克雷奇某酒店打印机内。这些由NPR公开的文件疑似由负责峰会策划的特朗普政府官员拟定,内容包含会议具体时间地点安排及美国政府工作人员电话号码。
加拿大总理马克·卡尼对美国表示愿意在结束俄罗斯对乌克兰战争的和平协议框架下,向乌克兰提供安全保障的开放态度表示欢迎。卡尼在声明中表示:“强有力且可信的安全保障对任何公正持久的和平都至关重要。我欢迎美国作为‘意愿联盟’努力的一部分,对提供安全保障持开放态度。”
据周六报道,唐纳德·特朗普亲自将第一夫人梅拉尼娅·特朗普的一封私人信件转交给俄罗斯领导人弗拉基米尔·普京,信中提及了在两国持续战争中受困的乌克兰和俄罗斯儿童的困境。信件内容此前未公开——但两位特朗普政府官员向路透社透露,信中提到了2022年俄罗斯入侵乌克兰后战争导致的儿童绑架事件。然而,福克斯新闻周六获取并发布在网上的信件全文措辞极为含糊,完全没有提及从俄罗斯占领的乌克兰地区向俄罗斯转移或绑架儿童的行为。
据俄罗斯塔斯社周六报道,弗拉基米尔·普京表示他对阿拉斯加的访问是“有益且及时的”。普京还补充说,他与特朗普的对话“真诚且富有实质性”,并强调俄罗斯尊重美国的立场,同时希望和平解决乌克兰冲突。
俄罗斯外交部表示,俄外长拉夫罗夫周六与土耳其及匈牙利外长分别进行了通话。俄外交部称,拉夫罗夫与土耳其外长费丹的通话系由土方发起,双方就俄美会谈交换了意见,但未透露更多细节。
乌克兰军方表示,其在北部苏梅战线部分区域将俄罗斯军队击退了约2公里(1.2英里)。据乌克兰战场测绘项目"DeepState"称,俄方目前控制该地区略超200平方公里领土,但尚未立即作出回应。