Kyiv: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Wednesday that a halt on energy strikes in the war with Russia could be established quickly, and that Ukraine would respond in kind if Moscow violated the terms of the ceasefire. After speaking to U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday for the first time since disastrous Oval Office … Read more
Kyiv: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday said that he and US counterpart Donald Trump had discussed possible US ownership of the Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine. His comments to reporters came after Trump told Zelensky on Wednesday that the United States could own and run Ukraine’s nuclear power plants as part … Read more
Washington: President Donald Trump has raised the possibility of the United States taking ownership of Ukrainian power plants, the White House said Wednesday as efforts to end the war with Russia proceed. “American ownership of those plants would be the best protection for that infrastructure and support for Ukrainian energy infrastructure,” Karoline Leavitt told a … Read more
Kyiv: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday was holding a highly anticipated conversation with Donald Trump to hear details of the US leader’s telephone call with Russia’s Vladimir Putin. “The president of Ukraine is having a conversation by telephone with US President Donald Trump,” Zelensky’s spokesman Sergiy Nykyforov told reporters. The Kremlin also said Wednesday … Read more
Kyiv: President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Ukraine would support a U.S. proposal to stop strikes on Russian energy infrastructure, and that he hoped to speak to U.S. President Donald Trump about his phone call on Tuesday with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The White House said earlier that Putin and Trump agreed during a conversation to a … Read more
Volodymyr Zelensky said Tuesday that the Kremlin was not ready to end its invasion of Ukraine. Kyiv: President Volodymyr Zelensky said Tuesday that the Kremlin was not ready to end its invasion of Ukraine and that its ultimate aim in talks on halting the conflict was to “weaken” his country. “They are not ready to … Read more
Ottawa: Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney has invited Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to the G7 summit in June in the western province of Alberta, a government official told AFP on Monday. Carney, who took office last week, spoke to the Ukrainian leader over the weekend, the official said, adding: “President Zelensky has been invited to … Read more
Kyiv: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has appointed Major General Andrii Hnatov as the Chief of the general staff of the Ukrainian armed forces to replace Lieutenant General Anatolii Barhylevych. The decrees to dismiss Barhylevych and appoint Hnatov, published on the presidential website, did not specify the reasons for the replacement. Ukrainian Defence Minister Rustem Umerov … Read more
The announcement was made through a presidential decree. Kyiv: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky appointed an official delegation to represent Kyiv in any possible peace talks to end the more than three-year war with Russia, according to a presidential decree published Saturday. Zelensky appointed his presidential chief of staff Andriy Yermak to head the delegation, with … Read more
Kyiv: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Thursday that Russia’s Vladimir Putin is preparing a rejection of a ceasefire proposal, but is scared to say this directly to U.S. President Donald Trump. Zelenskiy, speaking in his evening address, said Russia is setting conditions on a ceasefire in order to delay it, or make it not … Read more
Charlevoix: US Secretary of State Marco Rubio is set to meet his Canadian counterpart at a G7 gathering Thursday, but discussion of American annexation threats has been ruled off-limits at talks expected to be dominated by efforts to agree a ceasefire in Ukraine. Rubio arrived in the town of Charlevoix on the banks of the … Read more
Washington: Ukraine said it would support Washington’s proposal for a 30-day ceasefire with Russia after what Kyiv said were ‘milestone’ talks during which the United States agreed to resume military aid and intelligence sharing with Ukraine. After more than eight hours of negotiations with Ukrainian officials in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, U.S. Secretary of … Read more