{"id":337233,"date":"2025-08-12T01:53:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T01:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/337233\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T01:53:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T01:53:11","slug":"ukraine-war-briefing-russia-preparing-for-fresh-offensives-not-a-ceasefire-zelenskyy-says-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/337233\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine war briefing: Russia preparing for fresh offensives not a ceasefire, Zelenskyy says | Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"
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    Russia is preparing its troops for new offensives instead of getting ready to stop the war in Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Monday, ahead of talks between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump in Alaska<\/a> on Friday. <\/strong>\u201c[Putin] is certainly not getting ready for a ceasefire and war end,\u201d the Ukrainian president said in his nightly address. He added, without providing specifics, that Russia was moving its troops for new operations on Ukrainian soil. \u201cThere is no sign that the Russians have received signals to prepare for a postwar situation.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Separately, Zelenskyy said he had spoken to Indian prime minister Narendra Modi and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Monday, as he seeks to rally support for Ukraine beyond Europe<\/strong>. Both countries have taken cautious diplomatic positions on the Russian invasion. India is a major buyer of Russian oil<\/a> and Saudi Arabia has pitched itself as a mediator<\/a> in the conflict. Zelenskyy said he spoke to both leaders about strengthening Ukraine\u2019s position in any peace process. \u201cCommunication with leaders is ongoing practically around the clock \u2013 we are in constant touch,\u201d he wrote on X. \u201cNow is the moment when there is a real chance to achieve peace.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Trump said he and Putin would discuss \u201cland swapping\u201d<\/a> when they met on Friday and expressed frustration with Zelenskyy for putting conditions on such a potential agreement<\/strong>. During a news conference at the White House on Monday, the US president said he was frustrated with Zelenskyy\u2019s insistence that Ukraine<\/a> would need to hold a national referendum on any peace deal that stipulated recognising Russian control over territory that it has occupied during the war. \u201cI was a little bothered by the fact that Zelenskyy was saying I have to get constitutional approval,\u201d Trump said. \u201cHe has approval to go to war and kill everybody but he needs approval to do a land swap. Because there will be some land swapping going on. I know that through Russia<\/a> and through conversations with everybody.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Moscow hopes the Putin-Trump meeting will give momentum to the normalisation of relations between Russia and the US, the Tass news agency reported on Tuesday.<\/strong> \u201cWe hope that the upcoming high-level meeting will give an impulse to the normalization of bilateral relations,\u201d Tass cited Russian deputy foreign minister Sergei Ryabkov as saying.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    German chancellor Friedrich Merz on Monday invited Trump to join emergency virtual talks with EU leaders and Zelenskyy on Wednesday ahead of the Alaska summit<\/strong>. Merz\u2019s office said in a statement that the virtual talks would focus on \u201cfurther options for action to put pressure on Russia\u201d and \u201cpreparations for possible peace negotiations and related issues of territorial claims and security\u201d. It is not clear whether or not Trump has accepted the invitation to the call.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said on Monday that the EU would work on a 19th package of sanctions against Russia and warned against concessions to Moscow.<\/strong> \u201cAs far as Russia has not agreed to full and unconditional ceasefire, we should not even discuss any concessions,\u201d Kallas said in a statement. \u201cThe sequencing of the steps is important. First an unconditional ceasefire with a strong monitoring system and ironclad security guarantees,\u201d she said, adding that \u201cwe will work on a 19th package of sanctions\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    The captain and two officers of a ship believed to belong to Russia\u2019s so-called shadow fleet have been charged with sabotage<\/a> for cutting five Baltic Sea cables in December, Finnish prosecutors said on Monday<\/strong>. The captain and first and second officers of the Cook Islands-registered oil tanker Eagle S are alleged to have dragged the ship\u2019s anchor on the seabed for about 90km (56 miles), damaging five undersea cables in the Gulf of Finland.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    A Ukrainian drone attack killed one person and wounded two others in a region about 420km (260 miles) east of Moscow, a Russian official said on Monday<\/strong>. The governor of Nizhny Novgorod, Gleb Nikitin, said in a statement that drones targeted two \u201cindustrial zones\u201d and caused the casualties and unspecified damage.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Russia is preparing its troops for new offensives instead of getting ready to stop the war in Ukraine,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337234,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7655],"tags":[332],"class_list":{"0":"post-337233","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-russia"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115013301230097358","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337233","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=337233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}