Officials work at the site of destruction and fire after the Russian attack on Sumy, Ukraine on March 19, 2025.
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Wednesday that he would have talks with White House Leader Donald Trump, as Moscow and Kyiv reported the attacks overnight after the Kremlin accepted a partial resignation from Washington.
« Today I will have contact with President Trump. We will discuss the details of the next steps with him. We really had a good meeting of our teams in Jeddah. I think everything went well, if not by Russia, which is not always happy when something is going well, » Zelenskyy said on Wednesday during a press conference in Helsinki, according to Google-Translad Ukrinform Ukrainian Exit Comments.
Moscow and Kyiv seemed like a breakthrough on Tuesday, as Russian President Vladimir Putin accessed an immediate cessation of the United States against specific goals, a truce narrower than Trump initially discussed with Zelenskyy, but a first step in marking the fighting that has devastated Ukraine for more than three years.
« We agreed an immediate cessation of all energy and infrastructure, » Trump wrote in a real social site after his Tuesday call with Putin, emphasizing that the agreement was a wider precursor to a ceasefire for a permanent fire that began in the Middle East.
However, Moscow and Kiev reported ongoing hostilities at the time of the truce, with Kremlin accusing Ukraine of guiding an oil tank in the Krasnodar region in a drone attack that followed Trump-Putin’s conversation, according to a Google-Translad. Update of the telegram of the Russian Ministry of Defense. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Kremlin did not see any Reciprocity of Kiev to observe the cessation of 30 -day fire, which he emphasized only refers to energy facilities and there are no other forms of infrastructure, on Google translation by Google. feedback Carried by the Russian state tass.
At Ukraine, regional authorities in the northeastern region of Sumy said in a Google translared Update of the telegram Local Hospital’s buildings suffered damage during « massive air attacks » by Russian drones. Meanwhile, kiev officials informed 18 residences, 20 apartments from home and 19 vehicles were harmed during a night attack, with Zelenskyy asking for more pressure on Russia in a Google Translarat Publication of social networks.
« These are Russian night attacks that destroy our energy, our infrastructure, the normal life of the Ukrainians. And the fact that this night was no exception indicates that we must continue to push Russia for the sake of peace, » he said.
The reports of hostilities highlight the fragility of confidence between the parties of the war in the midst of the doubts of the analysts that Moscow is committed to peace even under the Agida of Washington’s Corredoria.
The two parties have tried to secure Trump’s Mercurial favor, which separated from the administration of his predecessor Joe Biden, puzzling relationships with an isolated Kremlin earlier this year, while briefly interrupted military support in Ukraine after a warm clash of the White House with Zelenskyy. Since then, the United States and Ukraine have agreed on the cessation terms that had the purchase of Russia.
Moscow’s previous requirements have included the surrender of Ukraine of four regions annexed illegally throughout the conflict and Kiev’s resignation of his ambitions to unite -NATO Alliance, which Kremlin names his safety threat. In the meantime, Kyiv has hesitated to make territorial concessions and, on the other hand, has requested guarantee that Russia will not resume its offensive later.
« The persistence of Putin’s demands for Ukraine’s capitulation shows that Putin is not interested in good faith negotiations to pursue Trump’s declared goal of achieving lasting peace in Ukraine, » the Washington Institute for War Study Said WednesdayAdding -« Putin continues to try to maintain the temporary fire cessation proposal in order to extract preventive concessions before formal negotiations to end the war. »
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