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Ukrinform reports. “If Trump knows how to finish this war, he should tell us today,” Zelenskiy said in a Bloomberg Television interview in Kyiv on Wednesday. “If there are risks to Ukrainian independence, if we lose statehood – we want to be ready for this, we want to know,” Zelenskiy said. “They can’t plan my life and life of our people and our children,” he said. “We want to understand whether in November we will have the powerful support of the US, or will be all alone,” Zelenskiy added. d As reported earlier, according to Politico, Trump is thinking about a possibledeal with Russian leader Vladimir Putin and how much Ukrainian territory Moscow could keep after the war.
Zelenskiy agrees to Putin's participation in the second Peace Summit:
The Kremlin refuses to negotiate with Ukraine through Erdogan's mediation. The President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, does not mind Russian dictator Vladimir Putin being invited to the next Peace Summit. However, in his opinion Putin is unlikely to come, as he is "too scared" to sit at the negotiating table. Therefore, to have a peaceful dialogue with Russia, the participation of the US and China is needed. Zelenskiy believes that Washington and Beijing should put aside their differences and act as joint mediators to end the war. Beijing should "pressure" Russia to end hostilities. Meanwhile, a Kremlin spokesman said the Russian Federation will not consider the Turkish president as a potential mediator in peace talks with Ukraine. Putin and Erdogan discussed the war issue at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in Kazakhstan on July 3. The Turkish leader offered to "lay the groundwork" for a compromise to end the war. Erdogan believes that Moscow and Kyiv could first agree on a ceasefire and then reach a peace agreement that will satisfy both sides.
At the Swiss peace summit held on June 16-17 India, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Brazil, UAE, Armenia, Thailand, Mexico refused to sign the final communiqué, and Iraq, Jordan and Rwanda later withdrew their signatures.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi told Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday that waging war instead of engaging in dialogue is “not the solution” more than two years into Russia's invasion of Ukraine. “I know that war cannot solve problems, solutions and peace talks can't succeed among bombs, guns and bullets. And we need to find a way to peace through dialogue,” Modi told Putin in televised remarks at the Kremlin.
Orban warns EU leadership about "dramatic events" on the front if negotiations do not start. Zelenskiy considers Hungary a weak mediator. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who visited Kyiv, Moscow, and Beijing on a a self-proclaimed "peacekeeping mission," wrote a private letter to EU leadership to provide information concerning his meetings with the presidents of Ukraine and Russia and detailed the Kremlin's position on the war against Ukraine. "In the next two months, more dramatic losses and military events on the Ukrainian front lines are possible than ever before" – this was the warning the Prime Minister of Hungary delivered. He wrote that during his trip to
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