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Trump says it’s possible that Putin doesn’t want to make a deal on Ukraine

US President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he hoped Russian President Vladimir Putin would move forward toward ending the war in Ukraine, but conceded that it was possible the Russian leader did not want to make a deal. “I don’t think it’s going to be a problem, to be honest with

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Trump says it’s possible that Putin doesn’t want to make a deal on Ukraine

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Aug 19, 2025 19:06
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Aug 19, 2025 19:06

US President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he hoped Russian President Vladimir Putin would move forward toward ending the war in Ukraine, but conceded that it was possible the Russian leader did not want to make a deal.

“I don’t think it’s going to be a problem, to be honest with you. I think Putin is tired of it. I think they’re all tired of it, but you never know,” Trump said in an interview with the Fox News “Fox & Friends” program.

“We’re going to find out about President Putin in the next couple of weeks ... It’s possible that he doesn’t want to make a deal,” Trump said, adding that Putin faced a “rough situation” if that was not the case.​

 

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Zelensky ready for meeting with Putin to end war

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky said Monday he was willing to meet directly with his Russian counterpart to end the war.

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Zelensky ready for meeting with Putin to end war
Peace deal must ensure security: Russia
Agence France-Presse . Washington 20 August, 2025, 00:30

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky.

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky said Monday he was willing to meet directly with his Russian counterpart to end the war.

Speaking to reporters after talks with US president Donald Trump and several European leaders at the White House, Zelensky said he was ready for what would be his first face-to-face with Vladimir Putin since Moscow’s invasion nearly three and a half years ago.

‘I confirmed — and all European leaders supported me — that we are ready for a bilateral meeting with Putin,’ Zelensky said following the summit.

Russia said that any deal on Ukraine should ensure its own security and that of Russians in Ukraine.

Hopes of a breakthrough rose when the Ukrainian president and European leaders met in Washington with Trump, who said he had also spoken by phone with his Russian counterpart.

But Russia warned that any solution of the war in Ukraine must respect ‘Russia’s security interests’, with its foreign minister Sergei Lavrov adding that any meeting between the leaders ‘must be prepared very thoroughly’.

Face-to-face talks between Zelensky and Putin would be their first since Russia’s brutal invasion three-and-a-half years ago.

The Ukraine war, which has killed tens of thousands of people, has ground to a virtual stalemate despite a few recent Russian advances, defying Trump’s push to end it.

Lavrov told state TV channel Rossiya 24 that any deal to end the conflict must ensure the rights of ‘Russian-speaking people who live in Ukraine.’

His comments came as France and Britain were co-hosting a virtual meeting of about 30 of Kyiv’s allies known as the ‘coalition of the willing’ to ‘keep them up to date on what was decided’, president Emmanuel Macron told French news channel LCI.

He added that work on setting the peace talks will start after that, hinting at Geneva as a possible location.

Macron also voiced wider European concern about Moscow’s territorial ambitions, after suggestions Ukraine could be forced to concede parts of the embattled Donbas region still under its control.

On the streets of Kyiv, there was scepticism about whether the latest talks can end the grinding conflict.

‘The main problem is Putin himself doesn’t want it,’ Anton, 32, who works in a warehouse, said.

‘They can meet as many times as they want but Putin doesn’t need it and Donald Trump doesn’t really know what to do.’

But in Moscow, some people were more hopeful. ‘I hope we can agree on mutually beneficial terms,’ said Vyacheslav, 23, who works for the government.

He added that it would have been better if the meeting between the presidents happened ‘at the very beginning.’

Trump, who last week held talks with Putin in Alaska, wrote on his Truth Social network after Monday’s meetings that he called Putin to start planning peace talks with Zelensky.

A three-way summit with both leaders would then be held, he added.

German chancellor Friedrich Merz, who was part of the European delegation, said Putin had agreed to the bilateral meeting within the next two weeks.

Zelensky said he was ‘ready’ to meet his bitter foe Putin and on Tuesday hailed the Washington talks as a ‘truly significant step toward ending the war and ensuring the security of Ukraine and our people’.

In Moscow, where a Kremlin aide said that Putin was open to the ‘idea’ of direct talks with Ukraine, Lavrov said the United States had now taken ‘a much deeper approach to resolving the crisis’.

Trump’s summit with Putin last Friday failed to produce a ceasefire and, just before Monday’s talks, a Russian drone strike on an apartment block in Kharkiv killed seven, including two children.

Zelensky rushed to the White House to meet with Trump after the US president increasingly pushed the Ukrainian leader to make concessions to Russia.

Trump meanwhile said he had discussed security guarantees for Ukraine and that Putin had agreed to them, despite ruling out Kyiv’s long-held dream of joining the NATO alliance.

The guarantees ‘would be provided by the various European Countries, with a coordination with the United States of America’, he said.

The Financial Times said Ukraine had undertaken to buy $100 billion of US weapons financed by Europe in return for US guarantees for its security.

Zelensky later spoke to reporters about a $90-billion package, and said Ukraine and its allies would formalise the terms of the security guarantees within 10 days.

The presence of the European leaders however also underscored continuing nervousness about whether Trump will pivot towards Putin as he has on a number of occasions.

Trump had pushed Ukraine ahead of the meeting to give up Crimea and abandon its goal of joining NATO — both key demands made by Putin.​

 

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Insaan koi qabool karnay ko tyaar nahi right?

 

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New Uki cruise missile is very similar to the Iranian Karar jet drone and similar design as a modern V-1 Doodlebug.

Very similar, but much larger.

 

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Russia strikes on Kyiv apartment blocks kill six
Agence France-Presse . Kyiv, Ukraine 15 November, 2025, 01:36

Russia struck residential parts of Ukraine’s capital Kyiv on Friday, Ukraine said, killing six people in a single apartment block in attacks president Volodymyr Zelensky denounced as ‘heinous’ and aimed at civilians.

Kyiv also said a Russian drone attack on a market in southern Ukraine hours later killed two more people.

It was one of the largest attacks on Kyiv since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, hitting buildings in most of the capital’s districts.

The attack also damaged Azerbaijan’s embassy.

Baku said an Iskander-type missile had destroyed part of its compound and summoned Moscow’s envoy.

In the east of the city, where rescue workers were clearing debris, AFP reporters saw multi-storey buildings with dozens of windows and balconies blown out, their facades charred.

‘My hair caught fire and I started putting it out,’ said local resident Maria Kalchenko, outside one of the buildings.

She turned to look for her dog before a wall near her collapsed.

‘The doors were blown out, flames everywhere, the fire spreading, the neighbours screaming,’ she said.

Zelensky said the attack was specifically aimed to cause ‘terror’.

‘This was a deliberately calculated attack aimed at causing maximum harm to people and civilian infrastructure,’ he added.

A hospital, shops and offices were also damaged, and around 30 people were wounded, officials said.

Moscow has fired record missile and drone barrages at Ukraine in recent months, hitting energy and rail infrastructure.

It has also targeted residential areas, knocking out power for tens of thousands across the country as temperatures plunge.

Germany said Friday’s attack showed a ‘contempt for humanity’ from Moscow.

‘It is very evident and clear that Russian president Vladimir Putin aims to make winter as unbearable as possible for Ukraine, to destroy morale and break the resistance of the Ukrainian people,’ German defence minister Boris Pistorius said.

Overnight, AFP journalists saw Ukraine using tracer bullets and missile defence systems, and incandescent debris falling over large areas above the capital.

The explosions lit up the night sky in flashes of bright orange.

Ukraine’s air force said it downed 405 out of 430 drones launched by Russia and 14 out of 19 missiles.

A senior Ukrainian official said the city’s air defences worked particularly well to stop the attack from wreaking even more damage.

There were previously ‘certain issues with air defence’ but this time ‘the air defence systems worked well’ they said.

The official also said the attack showed how ‘the Russians have started using significantly more ballistic missiles’.

Ballistic missiles are particularly difficult to intercept given their speed and trajectory.

‘They combine ballistic and aeroballistic missiles with waves of drones. It is not easy to shoot down,’ the official explained.

Russia’s defence ministry said its forces carried out a ‘massive strike’ of drones and hypersonic missiles against Ukrainian military and energy sites.

Moscow’s troops are grinding forward on the eastern front and continue to reject calls to halt the invasion.

G7 foreign ministers meeting in Canada this week urged an immediate ceasefire in Ukraine and voiced ‘unwavering’ support for the country’s territorial integrity.

Putin has demanded that Ukraine give up swathes more territory in the east if it wants an end to the war.

Hundreds of Russian troops have entered the eastern city of Pokrovsk, Ukraine has conceded, and could be on the brink of capturing it.

Ukraine has in turn stepped up its own retaliatory attacks on Russian oil and gas facilities deep behind the front, seeking to cut off Moscow’s energy export revenues.

Zelensky said Ukraine had used long-range Neptune missiles overnight against targets on Russian territory.

Russia said Ukrainian drone debris hit its Novovoronezh nuclear power plant near the city of Voronezh on Thursday, briefly disconnecting it from power.

Russian forces downed more than 200 Ukrainian drones overnight into Friday, Moscow’s defence ministry said, including 66 over the region of Krasnodar and 45 over Saratov, both in the south.

Russian officials reported a fire at a large Black Sea oil refinery and a hit on a civilian vessel that wounded three.​

 

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France makes ‘historic’ accord to sell Ukraine 100 warplanes

France’s president Emmanuel Macron and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky on Monday signed an accord for Kyiv to acquire up to 100 fighter jets and other hardware, including drones, in a boost for Ukraine as it fights Russia’s invasion.

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France makes ‘historic’ accord to sell Ukraine 100 warplanes
Agence France-Presse . Paris, France 18 November, 2025, 01:31

France’s president Emmanuel Macron and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky on Monday signed an accord for Kyiv to acquire up to 100 fighter jets and other hardware, including drones, in a boost for Ukraine as it fights Russia’s invasion.

Delivery of the Rafale fighter jets — the crown jewel of French combat aviation — is only foreseen under the letter of intent over a 10-year horizon, although the production of drones and interceptors would start by the end of this year, Macron said.

The announcement, made as Zelensky visited Paris, came with the Ukrainian leader in need of support after setbacks over the last week due to a corruption scandal at home, Russian forces closing in on the Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk and continued aerial attacks by Moscow.

Macron acknowledged that this was currently a ‘difficult moment’ in the conflict, which was sparked by Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

‘Russia alone is making the choice to continue this war and to intensify it,’ he told reporters alongside Zelensky, accusing Russia of having an ‘addiction for war’.

But the French leader said he hoped ‘peace will be obtained before 2027’ when his own mandate expires, adding that there needed to be then a ‘regeneration’ of the Ukrainian army so that it is ‘capable of dissuading any new incursion’ by Russia.

The letter of intent inked by the two leaders at France’s Villacoublay air base sets out possible future contracts for Ukraine to acquire 100 Rafale fighter jets ‘with their associated weapons’, the French presidency said.

It also lays out deals for the new generation SAMP-T air defence systems which are under development, radar systems and the drones.

‘It is a historic agreement,’ Zelensky said.

The Ukrainian president has already signed a letter of intent to acquire 100 to 150 Swedish Gripen fighter jets.

France has delivered Mirage fighter jets to Kyiv but this is the first time Rafale planes have been promised.

Financial details were not disclosed but France intends dip into its own budget contribution and use joint EU borrowing mechanisms, despite the risk of potential German resistance, to help Kyiv finance the deal.

The visit by Zelensky to France was his ninth since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

It comes ahead of what analysts predict will be a tough winter for Kyiv as Moscow presses on the battlefield.

Overnight, Russian strikes killed three people in a city in Ukraine’s eastern Kharkiv region, its military administration chief said. Seven people were killed after Russia struck apartment blocks across the capital Kyiv on Friday.

The Russian army seized three more villages across eastern Ukraine, the defence ministry in Moscow said Monday, the latest in its grinding advance.

Efforts by US president Donald Trump to force a peace deal have stalled as Moscow has rejected calls for a ceasefire and refused to drop hardline territorial demands.

With the delivery of the Rafale jets only expected after the war, Macron said: ‘There will be no robust, lasting peace if there is not a strong Ukrainian army.’

Zelensky at the weekend announced an overhaul of state-owned energy companies after a corruption scandal, ordering two ministers to resign and sanctioning a former business partner who was named as its mastermind.

Macron said Ukraine’s path to join the European Union required ‘demanding and deep efforts and reforms notably on governance and fight against corruption’, adding he had ‘confidence’ in Ukrainians and Zelensky to do this.

Pressed during the news conference over whether enough had been done to fight against corruption, Zelensky said: ‘It is not enough. We will continue the appropriate actions.’

Macron and Zelensky also visited the headquarters of a Ukraine multinational force that France and Britain are preparing in the event an international force is deployed in Ukraine after any ceasefire.

The headquarters, at Mont Valerien, west of Paris, is where countries from the ‘coalition of the willing’ organised by France and Britain have sent officers to prepare the force.

France says that 34 countries and Ukraine have already offered to take part.​

 

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Trump blasts Ukraine for 'zero gratitude' to US as talks start

Comments while US and Ukrainian officials met in Geneva to discuss truce plan

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Trump blasts Ukraine for 'zero gratitude' to US as talks start
Comments while US and Ukrainian officials met in Geneva to discuss truce plan

Photo: Alex Wroblewski / AFP

US President Donald Trump on Sunday once again accused Ukraine of showing a lack of "gratitude" for Washington's support against Russia's invasion, as senior US and Ukrainian officials met in Geneva to discuss a proposal aimed at halting the war.

"UKRAINE 'LEADERSHIP' HAS EXPRESSED ZERO GRATITUDE FOR OUR EFFORTS," Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform, while reiterating frustration at the war's "HUMAN CATASTROPHE" and attacking his predecessor Joe Biden. Notably, he offered no direct condemnation of Moscow.

Trump's remarks against Ukraine and US allies reflected his growing irritation over the conflict, which began when Russia launched its full-scale invasion in 2022, seizing and devastating large areas of Ukrainian territory.

During his presidential campaign last year, Trump claimed he could broker peace within 24 hours. However, his sporadic diplomatic initiatives have achieved little, and he now faces sharp criticism from within his own party over a new 28-point plan under discussion in Geneva, which critics say would hand Russia several of its key war objectives.

Although Trump has previously said he is disappointed in Vladimir Putin, he rarely criticises the Kremlin leader directly or condemns the invasion, instead placing pressure on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

In his latest social media post, Trump also attacked European nations for continuing to purchase Russian oil and labelled Biden "crooked Joe" for supplying Ukraine with weapons "free, free, free."

The only reference to Putin in the lengthy post was Trump's claim that the Russian president believed "Now is my chance!" to invade Ukraine solely because "Sleepy Joe" Biden was in office.

Zelensky, meanwhile, has repeatedly expressed gratitude for the extensive US military support, as Ukrainian forces continue to resist Russia's occupation across a battlefront stretching hundreds of miles.​