Zelenskyy says he would join Trump-Putin summit in Hungary if invited – Europe live | Ukraine
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Monday he would be ready to join RussiaVladimir Putin and his US counterpart Donald Trump will attend the summit in Hungary if invited. Trump and Putin are likely to meet in the Hungarian capital within a few weeks as the US leader continues to broker a peace deal to end the three-and-a-half-year war.
Zelenskyy told reporters in a statement published on Monday:
If I am invited to Budapest, that is, if it is an invitation where we meet with three people, or in other words shuttle diplomacy, in the format of President Trump meeting Putin, President Trump meeting me, then we will agree on one format or another.
The Ukrainian president also criticized the choice of Hungary, which has rocky relations with Kiev and is seen as the member of the European Union most sympathetic to the Kremlin.
“I do not believe that a prime minister who blocks Ukraine everywhere can do anything positive for the Ukrainians or even make a balanced contribution,” Zelenskyy said, referring to the Hungarian leader. Viktor Orban.
In other developments:
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Donald Trump suggested on Sunday that the best way to end the war in Ukraine would be to “dismantle” the Donbas region. leaving most of it to Russia. The US president told reporters: “Let it stop that way,” adding: “They might negotiate something in the future.” The comments came after a tense meeting at the White House with Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in which Trump reportedly pressured the Ukrainian president to give up some territory.
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European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said on Monday this was “not nice”. Putin may go to EU member Hungary for talks on the war in Ukraine. Kallas told reporters ahead of a meeting of European foreign ministers in Luxembourg that Trump’s efforts to bring peace were welcome but that Zelenskyy’s meeting with the Russian leader was also important.
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Ukraine is preparing a contract to purchase 25 Patriot air defense systems. Speaking to the media at a meeting on Sunday, Zelenskyy, whose use permit was granted on Monday, said the systems would be supplied annually for several years and that Ukraine would ask some European countries to give Kiev priority in the queue for the systems. Kiev sees the Patriots as the most effective system in stopping Russian ballistic missiles traveling several times the speed of sound.
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Zelenskyy said soOn Monday, I spoke with French President Emmanuel Macron about putting pressure on Russiaand said she agreed to meet him in the near future. “Pressuring the one who started the war is the key to achieving the result,” Zelenskyy wrote to X. “Emmanuel and I discussed all current diplomatic issues and our recent contacts with our partners.”
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The Louvre will remain closed for the second consecutive day on Monday. management told AFP: after thieves steal the crown jewels from the museum in Paris the day before. French police are still searching for four thieves who staged a highly professional daylight raid on the Louvre, broke into one of the museum’s most ornate rooms and made off with eight pieces of “priceless” historical jewels, including a necklace that Napoleon gave to his wife.
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Russia accuses Ukraine of giving contradictory signals regarding the peace process
Russia said on Monday it was working seriously with the United States on a peace deal in Ukraine, but accused Ukraine of sending conflicting signals that was complicating the process.
The Kremlin said Budapest was chosen for the summit between the Russian President and the Russian President. Vladimir Putin’s and US president donald Embers because the prime minister of Hungary Viktor Orban He has warm ties with Trump and constructive ties with Putin.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov He told reporters that work for the summit, which aims to find a solution to the Ukrainian conflict and improve relations between Russia and the United States, has just begun.
He declined to provide further information about the last phone call between the two leaders last week.
Russia’s Defense Ministry also said Monday that its troops took control of the village of Molodetske in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region. The Guardian cannot independently verify battlefield reports.
president of ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy Earlier on Monday, he said he would be ready to attend the Trump-Putin summit in Hungary if invited.
UPDATE on previous report: EU countries agreed on Monday to phase out remaining gas imports from Russia by January 2028, removing a dependence the bloc has struggled to end despite Moscow’s war on Ukraine.
Energy ministers meeting in Luxembourg approved the European Commission’s plan to phase out imports of both pipeline gas and liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Russia, subject to approval by the bloc’s parliament.
President at the UN general assembly last month Donald Trump He said European countries should stop buying Russian energy products.
“Inexcusably, even NATO countries did not cut Russian energy and Russian energy products very much, I learned about this about two weeks ago and I was not happy about it,” he said. “Think about it; they’re financing the war against them. Who’s heard of that?”
EU agrees to end all gas imports from Russia by end of 2027
The European Union agreed on Monday to end all gas imports from Russia by the end of 2027, AFP reported. We will provide more information on this as we receive updates.
French Minister of Justice said ‘We failed’ over the Louvre robbery
French Minister of Justice Gérald Darmanin He admitted on Monday that security flaws in the protection of the Louvre led to robbers stealing imperial jewels from the famed Paris museum in broad daylight a day earlier.
“What is certain is that we failed because people can park a furniture elevator in the middle of Paris and take people up in a few minutes to pick up priceless jewels and give France a terrible image,” he told France Inter radio.
Darmanin said that the robbery, which many newspapers called “the robbery of the century”, put France in a “deplorable” situation. “The French people all feel like they’ve been robbed.”
The Louvre will remain closed for the second consecutive day on Monday.
Opening summary
Hello and welcome to our live blog covering events in Europe.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Monday he would be ready to join RussiaVladimir Putin and his US counterpart Donald Trump will attend the summit in Hungary if invited. Trump and Putin are likely to meet in the Hungarian capital within a few weeks as the US leader continues to broker a peace deal to end the three-and-a-half-year war.
Zelenskyy told reporters in a statement published on Monday:
If I am invited to Budapest, that is, if it is an invitation where we meet with three people, or in other words shuttle diplomacy, in the format of President Trump meeting Putin, President Trump meeting me, then we will agree on one format or another.
The Ukrainian president also criticized the choice of Hungary, which has rocky relations with Kiev and is seen as the member of the European Union most sympathetic to the Kremlin.
“I do not believe that a prime minister who blocks Ukraine everywhere can do anything positive for the Ukrainians or even make a balanced contribution,” Zelenskyy said, referring to the Hungarian leader. Viktor Orban.
In other developments:
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Donald Trump suggested on Sunday that the best way to end the war in Ukraine would be to “dismantle” the Donbas region. leaving most of it to Russia. The US president told reporters: “Let it stop that way,” adding: “They might negotiate something in the future.” The comments came after a tense meeting at the White House with Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in which Trump reportedly pressured the Ukrainian president to give up some territory.
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European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said on Monday this was “not nice”. Putin may go to EU member Hungary for talks on the war in Ukraine. Kallas told reporters ahead of a meeting of European foreign ministers in Luxembourg that Trump’s efforts to bring peace were welcome but that Zelenskyy’s meeting with the Russian leader was also important.
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Ukraine is preparing a contract to purchase 25 Patriot air defense systems. Speaking to the media at a meeting on Sunday, Zelenskyy, whose use permit was granted on Monday, said the systems would be supplied annually for several years and that Ukraine would ask some European countries to give Kiev priority in the queue for the systems. Kiev sees the Patriots as the most effective system in stopping Russian ballistic missiles traveling several times the speed of sound.
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Zelenskyy said soOn Monday, I spoke with French President Emmanuel Macron about putting pressure on Russiaand said she agreed to meet him in the near future. “Pressuring the one who started the war is the key to achieving the result,” Zelenskyy wrote to X. “Emmanuel and I discussed all current diplomatic issues and our recent contacts with our partners.”
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The Louvre will remain closed for the second consecutive day on Monday. management told AFP: after thieves steal the crown jewels from the museum in Paris the day before. French police are still searching for four thieves who staged a highly professional daylight raid on the Louvre, broke into one of the museum’s most ornate rooms and made off with eight pieces of “priceless” historical jewels, including a necklace that Napoleon gave to his wife.
