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Kremlin says Putin is ready to discuss peace in Ukraine but wants to achieve goals

Russian President Vladimir Putin is ready to move toward a peace settlement for Ukraine but Moscow's main objective is to achieve its goals, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told state television in a clip published on Sunday. Peskov said that the world was now accustomed to US President Donald Tru

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Kremlin says Putin is ready to discuss peace in Ukraine but wants to achieve goals

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Jul 20, 2025 16:33
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Jul 20, 2025 16:33

Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting on social issues, in Moscow, Russia July 14, 2025. Photo : Sputnik/Mikhail Metzel/Pool via REUTERS/Files

Russian President Vladimir Putin is ready to move toward a peace settlement for Ukraine but Moscow's main objective is to achieve its goals, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told state television in a clip published on Sunday.

Peskov said that the world was now accustomed to US President Donald Trump's sometimes "harsh" rhetoric but pointed out that Trump had also underscored in comments on Russia that he would continue to search for a peace deal.

"President Putin has repeatedly spoken of his desire to bring the Ukrainian settlement to a peaceful conclusion as soon as possible. This is a long process, it requires effort, and it is not easy," Peskov said told state television reporter Pavel Zarubin.

"The main thing for us is to achieve our goals. Our goals are clear," Peskov said.

On Monday, Trump announced a tougher stance on Russia, pledging a new wave of military aid to Ukraine, including Patriot missile defence systems. He also gave Russia a 50-day deadline to agree to a ceasefire or face additional sanctions.​

 

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Russian strikes on Kyiv kill one, school burning: officials

The strikes come days after Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky said Kyiv had proposed a new round of peace talks to Moscow.

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Russian strikes on Kyiv kill one, school burning: officials
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Published: 21 Jul 2025, 09: 10

A driver walks near his burned car after Russian military strike, as Russia's invasion of Ukraine continues, in central Kyiv, Ukraine October 10, 2022 Reuters

Russian strikes on Ukraine’s capital Kyiv on Monday killed at least one person and left a shop and school on fire, according to city officials.

“Unfortunately, we have information about one person who died as a result of the attack,” the head of Kyiv’s military adminsitration Tymur Tkachenko said on Telegram.

Four districts of the city were attacked, with reports of burning residential buildings, a kiosk and a kindergarten, Kyiv’s mayor Vitali Klitschko said in another Telegram post.

The entrance to the Lukyanivska metro station was also damaged, he added.

The strikes come days after Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky said Kyiv had proposed a new round of peace talks to Moscow.

So far two rounds of talks in Istanbul have failed to result in any progress towards a ceasefire, instead yielding large-scale prisoner exchanges and deals to return the bodies of killed soldiers.

The Kremlin said this month it was ready to continue talks with Ukraine after US President Donald Trump gave Russia 50 days to strike a peace deal or face sanctions.

The European Union on Friday agreed an 18th package of sanctions on Moscow that targets Russian banks and lowers a price cap on oil exports, in a bid to curb its ability to fund the war.​

 

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Russian attacks kill 5, including family, in east Ukraine

Russian attacks killed at least five people, including three members of a displaced family, in separate attacks across Ukraine’s war-scarred east, Ukrainian authorities said Thursday.

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Russian attacks kill 5, including family, in east Ukraine
Agence France-Presse . Kyiv, Ukraine 24 July, 2025, 23:30

Russian attacks killed at least five people, including three members of a displaced family, in separate attacks across Ukraine’s war-scarred east, Ukrainian authorities said Thursday.

A couple and their 36-year-old son were killed in a village in the eastern Kharkiv region late Wednesday, local officials said, while two more women were killed in the Donetsk region Thursday.

Russia has stepped up drone and missile attacks on Ukraine more than three years into its invasion, even as the warring parties meet for ceasefire talks.

Donetsk regional officials issued blurred images of one of the bloodied women killed in Kostyantynivka, where a dozen other people were wounded. Russian forces are gradually encircling the industrial hub.

A strike later on Kharkiv city wounded 37 people, including a 10-year-old girl and a 17-year-old boy and girl, the governor said.

A separate Russian drone and missile barrage wounded seven people overnight, including a child, in the central Ukrainian region of Cherkasy, emergency services said.

And in the southern port city of Odesa, a Russian drone attack wounded four people and badly damaged a famous market. Ukraine’s prime minister said some of the buildings targeted were UNESCO protected.

‘Russia continues its terror and obstructs diplomacy, which is why it deserves full-scale sanctions responses, as well as our strikes on their logistics, their military bases, and their military production facilities,’ president Volodymyr Zelensky wrote on social media in response.

He said Russia had launched 103 drones — mainly Iranian-designed Shahed unmanned aerial vehicles — and four missiles.

In Russia, a Ukrainian drone strike killed two women and wounded several others in the southern city of Sochi, regional authorities said.

The Russian defence ministry said its air defence systems had downed 39 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles mainly over southern regions of the country.​

 

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Negotiators discuss possible Putin meeting: Zelensky

Delegations from Moscow and Kyiv discussed the possibility of a meeting between Ukrainian president and Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin during talks in Istanbul this week, Volodymyr Zelensky said in comments released Friday.

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Negotiators discuss possible Putin meeting: Zelensky
Agence France-Presse . Kyiv, Ukraine 26 July, 2025, 01:46

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Delegations from Moscow and Kyiv discussed the possibility of a meeting between Ukrainian president and Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin during talks in Istanbul this week, Volodymyr Zelensky said in comments released Friday.

Zelensky has been pushing for a meeting with Putin and has urged Donald Trump, who has been pushing for the warring parties to strike a deal, to also attend.

Putin has said he is willing to meet Zelensky but only during a ‘final phase’ of negotiations to end the more than three-year war.

‘We need an end to the war, which probably begins with a meeting of leaders,’ Zelensky told reporters, including AFP.

‘In talks with us, they have begun to discuss it. This is already progress toward some kind of meeting format,’ he added.

At a fresh round of talks in Istanbul on Wednesday, Kyiv proposed holding the talks by the end of August.

The timing would roughly align with a deadline set by Trump, who earlier this month gave Russia 50 days to strike a peace deal with Ukraine or face sweeping sanctions.

The Kremlin on Thursday downplayed the likelihood of any imminent meeting.

‘A high-level meeting can and must put a definitive end to the settlement,’ Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters including AFP.

‘Is it possible to go through such a complex process in 30 days? Well, that is obviously unlikely,’ he added.

Talks on ending the conflict have yielded few results. The sides have radically different positions and Ukraine has accused Russia of sending low-level officials with no real decision-making power.

Russia has called on Ukraine to effectively cede four regions that Moscow claims to have annexed, a demand Kyiv has called unacceptable.

Ukraine says it will never recognise Russia’s claims over occupied territory — including Crimea, which the Kremlin annexed in 2014.

Zelensky said Russia was still attempting to advance on several parts of the front, without any major breakthroughs, but acknowledged that Russian sabotage groups had entered the embattled logistics hub of Pokrovsk.

Ukraine has been pleading with its Western backers to send weapons for its troops and to withstand daily Russian attacks.

As part of a deal that allows European states to buy US weaponry and give it to Kyiv, Zelensky said his country was working to secure funding for 10 Patriot air defence systems.

‘The President of the United States will be transferring, selling these systems to us. Our task is to find funding for all 10 systems,’ Zelensky said.

He added that Ukraine had already secured funds for three systems — two from Germany and one from Norway.

Zelensky also said that Washington and Kyiv had agreed on a deal worth between $10-30 billion dollars for Ukraine to provide drones to the United States.

This would represent a departure from Ukraine’s unofficial stance against weapons exports.

‘With America and president Trump, we agreed that they will purchase drones from us. This agreement is in place,’ Zelensky said.

Zelensky said he was ‘focused on the issue of the war because right now, the number one issue in Ukraine is the war.’

But he has been facing protests, spurred by the adoption of a law revoking the independence of two anti-corruption agencies.

The adoption of the law triggered the biggest public protests in Ukraine since Russia’s invasion and drew criticism from Kyiv’s European allies.

‘It is absolutely normal to react when people don’t want something or when they dislike something,’ Zelensky said.

‘For me, it was very important that we listened and responded adequately,’ Zelensky added.

The government has since submitted a bill aimed at restoring the independence of the anti-graft bodies — the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine and Specialised Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office.

It remains to be seen whether parliament — mostly loyal to Zelensky — will approve the draft law.

The controversial law drew criticism from Kyiv’s European allies, who worry the move could undermine anti-corruption reforms key to Ukraine’s bid to join the European Union.

‘We want to be part of Europe. No one is willing to take any risks,’ Zelensky said.​