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Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky has announced he is seeking an opportunity to end the war with Russia next year.
“In October, November and December we have a chance to move things toward peace and lasting stability,” he told the Ukraine-South East Europe summit in Dubrovnik.
“The situation on the battlefield creates an opportunity to make this choice for decisive action to end the war no later than in 2025.”
It comes as he called on southeastern European countries to invest in weapons production in Ukraine.
Overnight, the Ukrainian president said he had met with top commanders to call for a boost in domestic production of weaponry.
Mr Zelensky had also planned to present in full his “victory plan” to the US and Ukraine’s other allies next week during a meeting in Germany.
But that meeting had to be postponed after US president Joe Biden announced that he would be staying in the US due to the threat of hurricanes in Florida.
Key Points
- Zelensky says battlefield situation ‘creates opportunity’ to bring an end to war in 2025
- Ukraine's military says it struck Russian weapons arsenal in Bryansk region
- Ukraine’s Ramstein meet canceled as Biden postpones Germany visit
- Trump secretly sent Putin Covid test machines, says Bob Woodward
- Ukraine faces toughest winter yet, Nato’s secretary general says
Jailed leader of a prominent election watchdog is on trial in Russia
Jailed leader of a prominent election watchdog is on trial in Russia
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Tom Watling9 October 2024 21:01 1728502236In pictures: Ukrainians relax in the Kyiv sun
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MI5: UK facing threat of ‘plot after plot’ from Iran, Russia and Isis
Ken McCallum says Russian intelligence agencies are also on a ‘sustained mission to generate mayhem on British and European streets’ with ‘arson, sabotage and more’
Tom Watling9 October 2024 20:01 1728498529Mine-like object thrown into Kyiv metro
Tom Watling9 October 2024 19:28 1728496909The Ukrainian fighting to keep Russia out of world chess
Ukraine will fight street to street to keep Russia out of key eastern city
The Russians taking Pokrovsk would split Ukraine’s defensive line in the region and harm supplies in the eastern part of Donetsk. Now facing constant bombardment, soldiers and residents in Pokrovsk speak to Askold Krushelnycky about the drawn-out siege they are bracing themselves for
Tom Watling9 October 2024 19:01 1728494689Zelenskyy to seek more war support from a dozen countries in southeast Europe
Zelenskyy to seek more war support from a dozen countries in southeast Europe
Ukraine’s president is again seeking political and other support from a dozen countries in southeast Europe at a summit on Wednesday in Croatia, whose president isn’t attending in a sign of the divided views on the war with Russia
Tom Watling9 October 2024 18:24 1728492589Russia's Novak says ball is in Ukraine's and EU's court on gas transit deal
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said on Wednesday that there are proposals from European Union partners to continue Russian gas purchases after the end of this year, but that the ball is in the court of Ukraine and the EU.
Despite the war, Russia continues to ship gas by pipeline across Ukraine to other European countries. But Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said this week that Kyiv will not extend the gas transit agreement with Russia after it expires at the end of 2024.
Novak, Russia’s point man for energy, said Russia was willing to continue supplying gas after the contract expires.
“We have repeatedly expressed our position that the ball is on the side of, let’s say, our buying partners and, accordingly, our colleagues from Ukraine, through which transit is carried out,” Novak told reporters.
“We have gas, we will supply it,” he added.
Tom Watling9 October 2024 17:49 1728490909https://www.independent.co.uk/news/emmanuel-macron-ap-ukraine-french-paris-b2626413.html
Macron will inspect Ukraine troops at French military camp as his domestic sway wanes
French President Emmanuel Macron is to meet for the first time with some of the nearly 15,000 Ukrainian troops that France has trained for the country’s fight against the Russian invasion
Tom Watling9 October 2024 17:21 1728489036Zelensky attends Southeast Europe Croatia Ukraine summit
Zelensky to meet Scholz in Berlin on Friday, sources say
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky will travel to Berlin to meet German chancellor Olaf Scholz on Friday, two sources told Reuters on Wednesday.
“Zelensky will visit Berlin on Friday, He is meeting Scholz first and then President Frank-Walter Steinmeier. This is part of his European tour,” one of the sources said.
Zelensky is travelling to meet allies in Europe this week but was dealt a blow as a planned summit meeting in Ramstein, Germany was postponed after US president Joe Biden cancelled his visit.
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