Washington today expects Ukraine’s response to a peace agreement that includes Crimean recognition as part of Russia and the unofficial recognition of Russian control over almost all areas occupied by the invasion of 2022: Axios reports it, which cites sources with direct knowledge of the proposal.
The document of a page presented by the USA to Ukrainian officials in Paris last week describes this as “The final offer of President Trump”writes the US news website. The White House insists that she is ready to abandon mediation if the parties do not reach an agreement shortly.
The interviews for peace in Ukraine with the international foreign ministers, scheduled for today in London, have been postponed; This was announced by the British government, adding that a meeting with lower level officials will be held anyway. “Today’s meeting on the peace interviews in Ukraine with foreign ministers has been postponed. The official talks will continue,” said the British Foreign Ministry at the AFP news agency.
Kiev is ready for direct negotiations with Russia after a ceasefire: the Ukrainian president Voldymyr Zelensky said it in a briefing with journalists, underlining how Ukrainian “is ready to sit at a table with any format”. Zelensky added that his country “is not discussing any new aid package with the United States”. “I would like to meet Donald Trump in the Vatican this week,” said the Ukrainian president who will be at the funeral of Pope Francis on Saturdayin which the American leader will also participate.
Russian President Vladimir Putin would have offered to freeze his invasion of Ukraine along the current front line As part of the efforts to reach a peace agreement with Trump. This was reported by the Financial Times by quoting some sources, according to which Europeans would have shown themselves skeptical, fearing that the apparent concession is only to attract the US president. Promptly denied circumstance. “There is a lot of false news that appears in the media”said the Cremlin spokesman, Dmitry Peskov. You understand that each draft of the different options for a solution cannot be made public, because as soon as they become public, they lose all effectiveness, “added Peskov, mentioned by the Ria Novosti agency.
Ukraine: Russian drone by bus in the south-east, 9 dead
Nine people were killed in a Russian attack with a drone on a bus to Marganec, in Sudorientale Ukraine, the governor of the Dnipropetrovsk region announced today on Telegram. “A drone … hit a bus with employees of a company on board. The enemy attack caused the death of nine people,” wrote Sergy Lysak, adding that 30 people were injured, but that “their number continues to increase”.
Beijing, the accusations of Kiev on our involvement in war unfounded
China rejects as “unfounded” the accusations launched yesterday by Kiev to be “involved” in the war in Ukraine, with the alleged sending of soldiers to fight alongside the Russians and on the production of war material for Moscow: accusations for which the Chinese ambassador was summoned yesterday in the Ukrainian capital. “China firmly opposes the unfounded accusations and political manipulations,” said the spokesman for the Beijing Foreign Ministry, Guo Jiakun, in a press conference.