{"id":275618,"date":"2025-07-19T20:35:19","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T20:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/275618\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T20:35:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T20:35:19","slug":"ukraine-seeks-new-round-of-peace-talks-with-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/275618\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine seeks new round of peace talks with Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ReutersReuters<\/p>\n

Ukraine has proposed a new round of peace talks with Russia, President Volodymyr Zelensky has said, in a move aimed at restarting negotiations that halted last month.<\/p>\n

Senior security official Rustem Umerov has offered to meet the Russian side next week, Zelensky said in his evening address, adding that everything had to be done to get a ceasefire.<\/p>\n

Zelenksy also repeated his readiness to meet Russia’s Vladimir Putin face-to-face. “A meeting at the leadership level is needed to truly ensure peace,” he said.<\/p>\n

The proposal came hours after Ukraine was hit with another widespread air bombardment by Russia, which killed three people.<\/p>\n

Ten regions of Ukraine, including several cities, were hit in the night between Friday and Saturday, Zelensky said earlier on Saturday. <\/p>\n

Ukraine’s military said more than 340 explosive and dummy drones and 35 cruise and ballistic missiles had been used, but many were downed.<\/p>\n

Earlier this week, President Donald Trump said the US would send “top-of-the-line weapons” to Ukraine via Nato countries, while also threatening Russia with severe tariffs if a deal to end the war is not reached within 50 days.<\/p>\n

Trump also warned that the US would impose 100% secondary tariffs<\/a> targeting Russia’s remaining trade partners if a peace deal with Ukraine was not reached by his deadline.<\/p>\n

\"UkraineUkraine State Emergency Service<\/p>\n

At least six people were wounded as a result of the Russian attack on Odesa<\/p>\n

Two rounds of talks in Istanbul between Moscow and Kyiv have so far failed to result in any progress towards a ceasefire, but large-scale prisoner exchanges and deals to return the bodies of killed soldiers were agreed.<\/p>\n

After the last round, which ended in early June, Ukrainian negotiators said Russia had again rejected an “unconditional ceasefire” – a key demand by Kyiv and its allies in Europe and the US .<\/p>\n

Russia also outlined a list of demands, including calls for Ukraine to cede more territory and to reject all forms of Western military support.<\/p>\n

At the time, Zelensky accused Moscow<\/a> of “doing everything it can to ensure the next possible meeting is fruitless”.<\/p>\n

Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.<\/p>\n

Russia currently controls about 20% of Ukraine’s territory, including the southern Crimea peninsula Moscow annexed in 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reuters Ukraine has proposed a new round of peace talks with Russia, President Volodymyr Zelensky has said, in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275619,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[2000,299,657],"class_list":{"0":"post-275618","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ukraine","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114881818130509546","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}