Ukraine-Russia war live updates: Angry Trump officials admit fast peace deal with Putin now unlikely

Volodymyr Zelensky said that a mineral transaction negotiated by Ukraine and the US does not mention his country’s NATO membership in the future.

“As for this agreement and NATO question, there is no mention of the NATO in this agreement, and there was never,” Mr. Zelensky said, who confirmed earlier reports.

A decision (regarding the agreement) will be made in the coming days. ‘

His remarks come a few days after a source in the presidential office to the Kyiv independently That the Ukraine ties the minerals a ‘non’ not ‘.

A Ukrainian overnight drone attack forced the evacuation of at least 60 people when fake debris hit their apartment building in the Russian city of Koursk, not far from the border with Ukraine, a regional official said this morning.

“Due to the attack of enemy drones on Kursk, there is damage to an apartment building in the city center,” said the acting governor of the Kursk region, Alexander Khinshtein, on Telegram.

“Fortunately, there are no casualties.” The extent of the attack was not clear.

Russia’s air defense units have destroyed 93 Ukrainian drones overnight, Russia’s Tass and Ria state news agencies reported this morning.

Almost everyone, or 87, was destroyed over the Kurk region bordering Ukraine, the agencies reported.

Ukraine will hold in-depth discussions with a small group of foreign countries on the contribution to a contingent that would serve as a security guarantee for the war-stringed nation, Zelensky said.

“As for the case of a contingent, we will hold a meeting on Friday. It will be a meeting of our military teams, several countries, a narrow circle of countries ready to deploy a contingent in some form,” he said.

Mr. Zelensky said he was awaiting “more concrete” answers from Kyiv’s allies for their readiness to participate in such a power, an initiative was strongly opposed.

The contingent would include a land component, an air component and a presence at sea, he said.

“It will be the first in -depth meeting (before it) there were consultations. I think we will see some explanations and some details,” Mr. Zelensky said about Friday’s meeting.

He added that it was not just the contingent discussed. “It is very important what the future of the Ukrainian army will look like,” he said.

Donald Trump should not be fooled by Vladimir Putin’s “stationary tactics” to delay the peace in Ukraine, the outgoing German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said during a visit to Kyiv.

“At the upcoming meeting of NATO Foreign Ministers, we will make it clear to the US side that we should not work with Putin’s stationary tactics,” the 44-year-old Greens leader said in a statement released after her arrival in the Ukrainian capital.

Mr. Putin is doing the readiness to negotiate, but does not move one millimeter from his position, she added.

Donald Trump has accused Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky of trying to return the mineral agreement that Washington proposed to return “as a refund for US military aid.

“I see that he is trying to be out of the rare earth agreement. And if he does, he has some problems. Big, big problems, ‘said Mr. Trump told reporters on board the air force on Sunday.

“We have entered into a Rare Earth agreement and now he says,” Well, you know, I want to renegotiate the agreement, “he said.

Mr. Trump went on: ‘He wants to be a member of the NATO. Well, he would never be a member of NATO. He understands it. If he wants to renegotiate the agreement, he has major problems. ‘

The view was reflected in the US among senior Trump officials who mediate peace who have been complaining privately about Kyiv’s handling of the negotiations for weeks and what they consider to be resistant to a mineral agreement with Washington and moving forward with peace talks.

According to senior Trump administration officials, the probability that the US has successfully reached a peace agreement in Ukraine in the next few months.

Two US officials familiar with the case told Reuters that the Trump team is drawing up new plans to print Kyiv and Moscow in peace talks.

In a series of meetings and calls over the weekend, officials in the White House and the State Department acknowledged that Russian President Vladimir Putin actively resisted Washington’s efforts to end a lasting peace agreement and discuss what, if any, economic or diplomatic strenuous Russia could push closer to an agreement, said the sources.

Top US officials have been complaining privately for weeks about Kyiv’s handling of the negotiations and what they consider to be resistant to a mineral agreement with Washington and forward with peace talks. But over the past few days, the sources have said, officials are becoming increasingly frustrated with Moscow.

The growing anger to Moscow, including the president himself, is a shift in the administration’s internal summit on Putin’s willingness to negotiate.

When he held office in January, President Donald Trump and his top advisors reached a full ceasefire by April or May, with a lasting peace agreement to follow.

But no agreement seems to be threatening, officials said, increasing the possibility that the three -year war will continue and that Ukraine will need more Western support for its military operations.

Rebekah Koffler, a former DIA intelligence officer who specializes in Russia’s war strategy, told Fox New New that Putin’s goal with his latest service is to extend the war.

“There is no ceasefire and no peace plan between Russia and Ukraine,” said Koffler, the author of a best -selling book.Putin’s playbook. “

“What President Trump is looking for is regret, unreachable. Putin’s goal is to keep fighting to force Ukraine to capitulate.

“Now that Germany and France are considering deploying the assurance of Ukraine in Ukraine, Putin is seizing in these numbers, and he increases the posture of his power, to ward off such an deployment or to prevent it with violence.”

Russia said its powers took control of the village of Rozlyv in the East Donongsk region of Ukraine, the focal point of their steady westward through the area.

The Ukraine Army said the Russian forces launched five attacks on Rozlyv and the nearby village of Kostiantyynopil, but made no recognition that Rozlyv was now in Russian hands.

In a late evening report of the Ukrainian general staff, it was said that three fights were still going on in the area.

Deepstate, a Ukrainian blog that detects the leading sources of 1,000 km (600 miles), has reported near Rozlyv Russian progress over the past 24 hours.

It has also been reported that heavy battles further east near Toretsk, another strongly disputed city.

Rozlyv lies south of Pokrovsk, a city targeted by the Russian forces for many weeks and the place of Ukraine’s only collection that produces Coking coal. The mine closed as Russian troops approached the terrain.