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Russia\u2019s Vladimir Putin and Ukraine\u2019s Volodymyr Zelensky<\/a> will be \u201cforced\u201d to meet by Donald Trump<\/a>, US vice president JD Vance has said.
In a wide-ranging interview, the American politician rejected calls from European leaders to allow Zelensky to attend the planned meeting between the Trump and Putin<\/a> on Friday, saying it would not be \u201cproductive\u201d at this point.
European leaders including Keir Starmer jointly welcomed the move towards peace on Saturday, but urged that any talks should see Ukraine represented, and not permit any land to be ceded to Russia.<\/a>
Their statement came after Trump suggest the deal may involve \u201csome swapping of territories,\u201d an idea which Zelensky was quick to reject.
Vance told Fox News<\/em> that the US president \u201chas to be the one to bring these two together,\u201d before criticising Europe for not \u2018stepping up\u2019 and adding that the US is \u201cdone with the funding of the Ukraine war.\u201d
Meanwhile, European Commission president Kaja Kallas has confirmed that European foreign ministers are scrambling to convene for an emergency meeting on Monday ahead of the Trump\u2019s meeting with Putin.
European nations have rallied behind Ukraine, saying peace in the war-torn nation cannot be resolved without Kyiv, ahead of an upcoming meeting between US president Donald Trump and Russia’s Vladimir Putin in Alaska.
Mr Trump said Friday’s meeting with his Russian counterpart on US soil would focus on ending the war, now in its fourth year.
In response, Mr Zelensky thanked European allies in a post on X, writing Sunday: “The end of the war must be fair, and I am grateful to everyone who stands with Ukraine and our people.”
One person was killed, and several apartments and an industrial facility were damaged in a Ukrainian drone attack on the south Russian region of Saratov, the governor said on Sunday.
Roman Busargin posted on the Telegram messaging app that residents were evacuated after debris from a destroyed drone damaged three apartments in the overnight attack.
“Several residents required medical assistance,” Busargin said. “Aid was provided onsite, and one person has been hospitalised. Unfortunately, one person has died.”
The fighting comes less than a week before peace talks are set to be held between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin on Friday.
Russian air defence units destroyed 121 Ukrainian drones overnight, including eight over the Saratov region, the defence ministry said. It reports only how many drones its defence units down, not how many Ukraine launches.
Busargin did not specify what kind of industrial site was damaged.
Social media footage showed thick black smoke rising over what looked like an industrial zone. Reuters verified the location seen in one of the videos as matching file and satellite imagery of the area. Reuters could not verify when the video was filmed.
Ukrainian media, including the RBK-Ukraine media outlet, reported that the oil refinery in the city of Saratov, the administrative centre of the region, was on fire after a drone attack.
The reports have not been independently verified. There was no official comment from Russia.
Both sides deny targeting civilians in their strikes on each other’s territory in the war that Russia launched with a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
Kyiv says its attacks inside Russia are aimed at destroying infrastructure that is key to Moscow’s war efforts, including energy and military infrastructure, and are in response to Russia’s continued strikes.
US vice-president has sat down with broadcaster Fox News to discuss a range of topics, including Russia\u2019s war in Ukraine.
Speaking about the European response to the peace talks, Vance criticised the continent\u2019s leaders for not \u2018stepping up\u2019 during the war.
\u201cWhat we said to the Europeans is simply: this is in your neck of the woods, this is in your backdoor. You guys have gotta step up and take a bigger role in this thing,\u201d he said.
\u201cAnd if you care so much about this conflict, you should be willing to play a more direct and substantial way in funding this war yourself.
\u201cI think the president and I certainly think that America, we\u2019re done with the funding of the Ukraine war business.
\u201cWe wanna bring about a peaceful settlement of this thing, we wanna stop the killing.\u201d
US vice president JD Vance says he does not believe it would be \u201cproductive\u201d for Ukraine\u2019s Volodymyr Zelensky and Russia\u2019s Vladimir Putin to meet before Trump meets Putin alone on Friday.
Speaking to Fox News, he said: \u201cI think fundamentally, the president of the United States has to be the one to bring these two together.\u201d
\u201cWe are of course going to talk to the Ukrainians, I actually spoke with the Ukrainians this morning.\u201d
\u201cBut fundamentally, this is something where the president needs to force president Putin and president Zelensky really to sit down and figure out their differences.\u201d
\u201cWe of course condemn the invasion that happened, we don\u2019t like that this is where things are, but we\u2019ve gotta make peace here, and the only way to make peace is to sit down and talk.\u201d
\u201cYou can\u2019t finger point, you can\u2019t wag your finger at somebody and say \u2018you\u2019re wrong, we\u2019re right\u2019, the way to peace is to have a decisive leader sit down and force people to come together.\u201d
Discussing how Trump has helped move the conflict towards a conclusion, the vice president said: \u201cOne of the most important logjams is that Vladimir Putin said that he would never sit down with Zelensky … the president has now got that to change.
\u201cWe\u2019re at a point now where we\u2019re trying to figure out, frankly, scheduling and things like that around when these three leaders could sit down and discuss an end to this conflict.\u201d
US vice president JD Vance says he does not believe it would be \u201cproductive\u201d for Ukraine\u2019s Volodymyr Zelensky and Russia\u2019s Vladimir Putin to meet before Trump meets Putin alone on Friday.
Speaking to Fox News, he said: \u201cI think fundamentally, the president of the United States has to be the one to bring these two together.\u201d
\u201cWe are of course going to talk to the Ukrainians, I actually spoke with the Ukrainians this morning.\u201d
\u201cBut fundamentally, this is something where the president needs to force president Putin and president Zelensky really to sit down and figure out their differences.\u201d
\u201cWe of course condemn the invasion that happened, we don\u2019t like that this is where things are, but we\u2019ve gotta make peace here, and the only way to make peace is to sit down and talk.\u201d
\u201cYou can\u2019t finger point, you can\u2019t wag your finger at somebody and say \u2018you\u2019re wrong, we\u2019re right\u2019, the way to peace is to have a decisive leader sit down and force people to come together.\u201d
Discussing how Trump has helped move the conflict towards a conclusion, the vice president said: \u201cOne of the most important logjams is that Vladimir Putin said that he would never sit down with Zelensky … the president has now got that to change.
\u201cWe\u2019re at a point now where we\u2019re trying to figure out, frankly, scheduling and things like that around when these three leaders could sit down and discuss an end to this conflict.\u201d
While US sources have said Trump is \u201copen\u201d to including Ukraine in peace talks with Putin, Russian authorities have played down the idea.
The Russian president last week ruled out meeting Zelensky, saying the conditions for such an encounter were “unfortunately still far” from being met.
Responding to European criticism of Ukraine\u2019s lack of involvement in the talks, former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev said: \u201cThe Euro-imbeciles are trying to prevent American efforts to help resolve the Ukrainian conflict.\u201d
Meanwhile, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in a statement that the relationship between Ukraine and the European Union resembled \u201cnecrophilia.\u201d
European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas says that any deal struck between the US and Russia on Ukraine\u2019s future must also involve the country and the EU.
Also the European Commission vice-president, Kallas added that European foreign ministers will scramble to meet on Monday ahead of Trump\u2019s meeting with Putin on Friday.
Adding to European voices that have called for no land to be ceded as part of any deal, Kallas said: \u201cas we work towards a sustainable and just peace, international law is clear: all temporarily occupied territories belong to Ukraine\u201d.
\u201cA deal must not provide a springboard for further Russian aggression against Ukraine, the transatlantic alliance and Europe,\u201d she added.
US President Donald Trump has signalled that Ukraine might have to give up territory to end the war with Russia as he prepares to meet Vladimir Putin for peace talks.
Announcing the talks with the Russian president, set to take place in Alaska on Friday, Mr Trump said: \u201cThere will be some swapping of territories\u201d.
The White House is reportedly trying to sway European leaders to accept an agreement that would include Russia taking the entire Donbas region in eastern Ukraine and keeping Crimea.
In exchange, it would give up the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions, areas which Russia is partially occupying, CBS reported.
But in a statement on Saturday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky rejected the idea, saying that \u201cUkrainians will not give their land to the occupier\u201d.
The Independent<\/em> maps out the situation on the ground:
Donald Trump met with Vladimir Putin several times during his first US presidential term, from 2017 to 2021.
The pair\u2019s relationship is now very different as Trump reaches 200 days into his first term, with Putin ordering a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
The two world leaders held their first official in 2018 in Helsinki, Finland, where they fielded questions from press but shared very little details from their private talks.
The meeting on Friday will mark Trump\u2019s first in-person meeting with Putin since he took office for a second time.
The pair did, however, hold a formal phone call in February this year for around 90 minutes, largely focusing on the war in Ukraine.
European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said on Sunday that any deal between Washington and Moscow to end the war in Ukraine must include Ukraine and the EU, adding that she will convene a meeting of European foreign ministers on Monday to discuss next steps.
\u201cThe U.S. has the power to force Russia to negotiate seriously. Any deal between the U.S. and Russia must have Ukraine and the EU included, for it is a matter of Ukraine\u2019s and the whole of Europe\u2019s security,\u201d Ms Kallas, who is also vice-president of the European Commission, said.
She added: \u201cas we work towards a sustainable and just peace, international law is clear: all temporarily occupied territories belong to Ukraine.
\u201cA deal must not provide a springboard for further Russian aggression against Ukraine, the transatlantic alliance and Europe.\u201d
Ms Kallas also said that ministers will discuss the situation in Gaza.
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