Zelenskyy meets Trump on NATO sidelines; Putin will skip BRICS in Brazil

Ukrainian person steps up diplomatic push, portion his Russian counterpart volition skip a acme owed to ICC apprehension warrant.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and United States President Donald Trump person held talks connected the sidelines of the NATO acme successful The Hague, with sanctions connected Russia implicit its warfare successful Ukraine, present successful its 4th year, and arms procurement for Kyiv connected the agenda.

Zelenskyy said helium discussed however to execute a “real peace” and “protect our people” with Trump connected Wednesday.

The meeting, which reportedly lasted 50 minutes, was a 2nd effort aft Zelenskyy failed to conscionable Trump earlier this period successful Canada erstwhile the US president abruptly near a G7 acme arsenic the Israel-Iran struggle raged, conscionable days earlier the US militarily intervened with strikes connected Iran’s atomic sites.

Speaking astatine quality league ending his information astatine the NATO summit, Trump said it is imaginable that Russian President Vladimir Putin has territorial ambitions beyond Ukraine, adding that helium plans to talk to Putin soon astir ending the war.

Zelenskyy noted earlier that Moscow and Kyiv person not moved immoderate person to a ceasefire, saying, “The Russians erstwhile again openly and perfectly cynically declared they are ‘not successful the mood’ for a ceasefire. Russia wants to wage war. This means the unit the satellite is applying isn’t hurting them capable yet, oregon they are trying precise hard to support up appearances.”

NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte said the information bloc’s “military borderline is being aggressively challenged by a rapidly rearming Russia, backed by Chinese exertion and equipped with Iranian and North Korean weapons” earlier the summit.

On Putin, Rutte was blunt, “I don’t spot the guy,” helium said, adding that the Russian person wouldn’t beryllium blessed with the result of the NATO summit.

NATO endorsed a higher defence spending extremity of 5 percent of gross home merchandise (GDP) by 2035 – a effect to a request by  Trump and to Europeans’ fears that Russia poses a increasing menace to their security.

Putin to enactment astatine home

In the meantime, Putin volition not question to adjacent week’s BRICS acme successful Brazil arsenic an apprehension warrant issued against him by the International Criminal Court (ICC) inactive hangs implicit him, Kremlin overseas argumentation adjutant Yuri Ushakov said connected Wednesday.

The ICC issued the warrant successful 2023, conscionable implicit a twelvemonth aft Russia launched its full-scale penetration and warfare against Ukraine. Putin is accused of deporting hundreds of children from Ukraine to Russia, a warfare crime.

Moscow vehemently denies allegations of warfare crimes, and the Kremlin, which did not motion the ICC’s founding treaty, has dismissed the warrant arsenic null and void. But weighing the hazard that helium mightiness beryllium arrested if helium travels to different state that is simply a signatory to the ICC treaty, Putin has ever erred connected the broadside of caution, lone travelling wherever helium is harmless from being apprehended.

Putin concluded an authoritative sojourn to Mongolia past September undisturbed arsenic his hosts ignored the apprehension warrant, contempt Mongolia being an  ICC member.

The Kremlin connected Wednesday besides said the US was not yet acceptable to dismantle obstacles to the enactment of their respective embassies, arsenic efforts to normalise relations betwixt the 2 person stalled aft archetypal signs that Trump’s 2nd word arsenic US president would pb to a large thaw aft tensions during the medication of erstwhile US President Joe Biden.

The warfare grinds on

In the latest developments connected the crushed successful the war, Russian rocket strikes connected southeastern Ukraine killed 17 radical successful the metropolis of Dnipro and injured much than 200, damaging dozens of buildings and infrastructure facilities connected Tuesday.

Two radical were killed successful a Russian onslaught connected the metropolis of Samara.

Russia says it intercepted dozens of drones overnight crossed its territory, including the Voronezh portion connected the borderline of eastbound Ukraine.

Russian forces accidental they captured the colony of Dyliivka successful Ukraine’s eastbound Donetsk region,  a cardinal battleground dating backmost to the archetypal eruption of struggle successful 2014.

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Al Jazeera and quality agencies