Zelensky says Ukraine is ready for direct talks with Russia, but only after a ceasefire

Ukraine is ready to celebrate direct peace conversations with Russia, but only after the fire is high, President Volodyyyr Zenskyyr Zensday in the middle of the new pressure of the United States to end the three -year conflict. The presidential envoy of the United States Steve Witkoff will go to Moscow this week, said the White House, and an American envoy would participate in new conversations with European officials in London on Wednesday. The reports of the US media have said that the president of the United States, Donald Trump, has proposed the acceptance that the territory attached by Moscow in Crimea is recognized as Russian and this will be discussed.

“After high fire, we are ready to sit in any format,” Zensky told journalists one day before the key conversations in London about a possible Ukraine settlement.

Trump, who had promised to reach a Moscow-Kyiv agreement within 24 hours after assuming the position, has failed in the three months since then to ensure concessions of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Trump said the weekend that he hoped that a peace agreement “this week” could be reached despite the fact that there are no signs that the two parties were close even a high fire, much less a long -term agreement.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday that the conflict was too “complex” to achieve a rapid fire. “It is not worth establishing any rigid time and trying to obtain an agreement, a viable agreement, in a short period of time,” TV told State.

White House spokeswoman, Karoline Leavitt, confirmed that Witkoff would travel to Moscow, her fourth visit to Russia since Trump assumed the position. “Continuous negotiations. With luck, we are moving in the right direction,” he said. Trump “has been frustrated with both sides of this war, and has let it know.”

Moscow’s forces occupy around a fifth of the Ukrainian territory and tens of thousands of people have been killed since the war began in February 2022. After reject Ucroinians.

Meanwhile, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine called on China’s ambassador to raise a “serious concern” about accusations that Chinese fighters were in the Russian army and Chinese companies were helping Russia make military hardware, the ministry said. Zensky has said that at least 155 Chinese were fighting with the Russian army, two of whom have been arrested by Ukraine, and that he had “information” that China was supplying weapons to Russia. Last week, China denied providing weapons. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs called China’s envoy in kyiv, Ma Shengkun, about the accusations and produced “evidence” to support the claims, the ministry said.

Ukraine allies are expected to discuss a possible agreement that everyone could be when they meet in London on Wednesday, said kyiv official to the AFP. The Secretary of State of the United States, Marco Rubio, will not attend London’s conversations due to programming problems, said the State Department, added that the envoy of Ukraine Keith Kellogg would participate. European leaders are struggling how to support Ukraine in case Trump pulls the vital military and financial support of Washington.

‘El Alto el Fuego unconditional’ as ‘First priority’

Zensky said that his team’s “first priority” in London’s conversations would be “a high unconditional fire.” On Sunday, the proposed part of missiles and drones attack civil facilities for at least 30 days. In saying that “would analyze” the idea, Putin threw doubts later accusing Kyiv or by using civil facilities for military purposes. The hero opens the possibility of bilateral conversations, thought that Peskov said that “there were no concrete plans” to interact with kyiv.

Russia hit a residential area in the city of Myrngrad of Myrngrad in eastern Ukraine with drones on Tuesday, killing three people and hurting two, authorities said. A person was reported dead and 23 wounds after two air bombs hit the southern city of Zaporizhzhia, said the governor of the region. The photos of the emergency services of Ukraine showed the outer walls of a open apartment block and a bloody man on a stretcher, with bandages around the head and arms.

The Russian strikes wounded six other people in the southern city of Jherson and seven in Kharkiv in Northeast, authorities said. Meanwhile, the Russian army claimed to have captured a village in the East Region of Donetsk, where their troops advance.

Russia has advanced in recent months in the south and east of Ukraine and recaptured much of the Kursk region of Russia, of which kyiv turned last year and hoped to use a negotiation chip. There were no discussions about any new American aid package with the Trump administration, Zensky said.

In Paris last week, Rubio presented Washington’s plan to finish the conflict, thought that both he and Trump warned that Washington’s patience was wearing up and could lead him to retire.