Conversation will take place at a time of intensification of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine; Moscow performed one of his biggest air strikes at dawn on Saturday (20)
The Ukrainian President has announced that he will meet with the American on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly next week, at a time of intensification of the conflict between e.
Russia performed one of its biggest air strikes in the early hours of Saturday (20), with the launch of 40 missiles and 580 drones against Ukraine in an offensive that killed at least three people and left dozens of injuries, Zelensky announced.
In turn, the Ukrainian army launched an attack with drones and killed four people in the Russian region of Samara, 800 km from the Batalha front, the local governor said on social networks.
The attempt of those to quickly end the war is paralyzed. Russia ruled out a meeting between the president and Zelensky, which for Kiev would be the only way to achieve peace.
‘We expect sanctions’
“We expect sanctions if there is no meeting between the leaders or, for example, no ceasefire,” Zelensky said, according to the Ukrainian presidency office. “We are ready for a meeting with Putin. I talked about it. Both bilateral and trilateral. He’s not ready,” Zelensky added.
Ukraine also requires Western -supported security guarantees to prevent future Russian attacks on a peace agreement for the conflict. But Putin warns that any plan that considers the sending of western troops to Ukraine would be unacceptable.
In Russia’s latest air strike against Ukraine, “a fragmentation missile directly reached a residential building” in the city of Dnipro, Zelensky said on social networks. The Ukrainian head of state published car images and a burning building, while emergency teams removed a person from the rubble.
‘Intense’ battles
The attacks took place a day after three Russian combat planes violate Estonia’s airspace, a member of the east margin of the alliance, a accusation denied by Moscow. The raid caused fears in the West of a new and dangerous provocation from Moscow, after Poland complained last week that nearly 20 Russian drones flyted over the territory.
Zelensky reiterated the appeal to find “joint solutions” to overthrow drones about Ukraine “with other countries.”
Russia, which advanced in the Ukrainian territory for months, announced on Saturday that its troops captured the locality of Berezove, in the region of Dnipropetrovsk. The Kharkiv region (northeast of the country) was the scenario of “intense actions” in the strategic area of Kupiansk, a rail center that Ukraine recovered at its 2022 offensive, Zelensky said.
Kiev troops also made air strikes against Russia. In the Samara region, in the southwest of the country and hundreds of kilometers from the front of battle, a drone attack killed four people, governor Viacheslav Fedorishchev confirmed on social networks.
Russian sources stated that the country’s forces repelled Ukrainian attacks on a large scale in the regions of Volgograd and Rostov, while a person was injured in the region near Saratov.
The Ukrainian state stated that the attacks were directed against “strategic targets of the Russian aggressor” and that their forces caused damage to the Sratov oil refinery and the NovoKuibishevsk refinery in Samara. “Preliminary information indicates that explosions and fires were recorded on the scene as a result of the attack,” said the staff on social networks.
Three rounds of direct peace negotiations between Russia and Ukraine in Istanbul did not make advances to end the war and allowed for some large -scale prisoners’ exchanges.
Russia does not retreat in its so -called non -negotiable demands, including Ukraine to completely give in to the East Donbass region, which Russian troops partially control. Kiev categorically rejects the possibility of making territorial concessions and wants European troops to be sent to Ukraine as a peaceful force, which Moscow claims to be unacceptable.
*With information from AFP
Posted by Nicolas Robert
