Growing doubts over possible Trump-hosted Putin-Zelenskyy summit
發佈日期: 2025-08-24 21:28
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Uncertainty is growing over U.S. President Donald Trump's plan to arrange a meeting between Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Trump said at the start of the week that he was hoping to host the Russian and Ukrainian presidents in a trilateral meeting aimed at ending the war.
But hopes are fading, with Trump considering fresh sanctions on Russia or even walking away from mediating.
These are Ukraine's U.S.-made long-range Army Tactical Missile Systems, or ATACMS, intended to strike deep inside Russia.
The problem for Ukraine is they have been blocked from using them by the Pentagon.
According to a Wall Street Journal report, the U.S. is restricting Kyiv from using the missiles as it tries to persuade Russian President Vladimir Putin to join peace talks.
Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth has the final say, but neither the Pentagon nor Ukraine has yet to comment.
U.S. President Donald Trump is coming off separate meetings with Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
He is trying to organise a trilateral summit with the two leaders in an attempt to end the three-and-a-half-year war, but so far without success.
Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told NBC on Friday that Putin is ready to sit down with Zelenskyy once an agenda for a meeting is put in place.
Putin wants all of the Donbas industrial area in eastern Ukraine in any peace deal, while Zelenskyy has steadfastly refused to hand over territory Russia has so far captured.
Zelenskyy reiterated that stance on Saturday during a ceremony in Kyiv marking Ukraine's national flag day.
This flag is a purpose, said Zelenskyy. A purpose and a dream for many of our people in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine, he added.
They cherish this flag, they cherish it because they know that we will not give our land to the occupiers.
The ceremony came a day before Ukraine launched drone attacks on several Russian power and energy facilities.
The drones forced capacity reduction at the Kursk Nuclear Power Plant near the Ukraine border.
They also set a fuel export terminal in Ust-Luga in the northern Leningrad region on fire.
The Kursk plant suffered a 50 percent reduction in operating capacity at unit three of the plant.
Russia said about 10 drones were shot down over the Novatek-operated terminal that processes gas condensate into export-quality naphtha, jet fuel, fuel oil and gas oil.
A total of 95 Ukrainian drones were destroyed over 13 regions in Russia.
