Doubts over potential Putin-Zelenskyy peace summit
發佈日期: 2025-08-26 20:23
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Russia and Ukraine have been exchanging drone fire as U.S officials suggest the two sides are no closer to discussing peace face-to-face.
Washington is trying to mediate a deal between the two warring neighbours with President Trump's special envoy in Kyiv trying to work out an agreement.
Even Donald Trump admits a lot will come down to the leaders -- Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Vladimir Putin -- who he says "maybe will meet or maybe they won't."
Russia destroyed 43 Ukrainian drones overnight.
Donald Trump wants to end this war and admits the tit-for-tat drone attacks are hampering plans for a potential meeting between the two sides.
The U.S. president says it is difficult to stop the fighting until talks beginning but its tricky for talks to commence while drones keep flying.
"It's drone fighting. It's a drone war, a drone war never existed before. And we're actually studying it from the standpoint of (Defense Secretary) Pete Hegseth and everybody. We're studying it and studying it very carefully," Trump said.
Trump added "This is a whole new form of war, but it's a violent war. And there has been nothing like this since the Second World War."
Trump's Special Envoy Keith Kellogg in Ukraine also struck a cautious tone:: "You've seen the pace process we're working on. It's working very, very hard. You know, we're hoping to get to a position where in the near term we have, for lack of a better term, security guarantees. That's a work in progress.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy attended that event with Ukrainian and U.S. negotiating teams expected to hold further talks this week.
Zelenskyy later meeting and greeting the Vice Chancellor of Germany, Lars Klingbeil, who was also in town.
The all-important topic of how security can be guaranteed for Ukraine was again on the table.
Klingbeil warning Zelenskyy European allies have to consider a scenario where Russia "doesn't relent."
Klingbeil's boss Chancellor Friedrich Merz hosted Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney in Berlin.
Merz says he does expects a bilateral a meeting between the leaders of Ukraine and Russia within two weeks.
A critic of Putin, the German Chancellor blamed Russia for delays.
Carney, who pledged support for Ukraine while there at the weekend, says the pair need to find a place to hold it.
Carney: "I was in Kiev two days ago, met with President Zelenskyy and he reiterated that he's willing to meet President Putin anywhere neutral. In other words, he doesn't expect President Putin to come to Kiev and he doesn't plan to go to Moscow."
Ukraine trying to put pressure on Russia in the the world of entertainment too.
Kyiv's Foreign Ministry critical of American filmmaker Woody Allen after he spoke remotely at the international film week in Moscow.
Allen says he's "always liked Russian cinema."
Ukraine called his appearance "an insult".
