Trump and Putin to meet in Hungary

Zelensky said Russia launched more than 300 unmanned aerial vehicles and 37 missiles to target infrastructure across Ukraine in attacks overnight on Thursday. Kiev stepped up attacks on Russian targets on Thursday, including an oil refinery in the Saratov region.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who received great praise from Trump at the Gaza peace summit held in Egypt on Monday, supported the summit on Ukraine.

“The planned meeting between the American and Russian presidents is great news for the peace-loving people of the world. We are ready!” he said.

While Orban regularly criticizes Zelensky on social media and resists calls for the European Union to halt oil purchases from Russia, he has also visited Putin in Moscow in recent years.

As Russian forces pound Ukraine, Zelensky and his ministers are calling on the US and EU to toughen sanctions against Russia and provide Ukraine with more weapons.

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Zelensky said Russia was using “double terror” by attacking with cluster munition-carrying drones and attacking emergency service workers while they were repairing damaged facilities.

“This fall the Russians are using every day to attack our energy infrastructure,” he wrote to X ahead of his meeting at the White House.

“Putin has turned a deaf ear to everything the world says, so the only language that still reaches him is the language of oppression – oppression through sanctions and oppression through long-term capabilities.

“Strong decisions are possible, decisions that can help. And that depends on the United States, on Europe, on all the partners whose strength directly determines whether the war ends.”

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In his latest warnings to Russia on Wednesday, Trump stated that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi promised to stop oil purchases from Russia and that his administration would force China to do the same.

India has not confirmed such a commitment, but Reuters reported that some Indian refiners were preparing to confirm it. to cut Three sources familiar with the matter told Reuters that oil imports from Russia were expected to decline gradually.

U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said Wednesday that Washington’s “continued aggression will impose costs on Russia” unless the war ends.

via Reuters

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