The prospect of a trilateral meeting mediated by the US came after US President Donald Trump met Putin in Alaska, before hosting Zelensky and other European leaders at the White House.<\/p>\n
Zelensky has stated his willingness to meet Putin in “any format”. <\/p>\n
Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto offered Budapest as a possible venue for such a summit on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban has maintained close ties with Moscow and has frustrated EU efforts to support Ukraine in the war with Russia in the past – so may not be viewed by all as a neutral host.<\/p>\n
Speaking to reporters on Thursday morning, Zelensky did not discuss Hungary’s offer – but said he had asked Trump to pressure Hungary into unblocking negotiations for Ukraine to join the EU.<\/p>\n
“Trump promised that his team would work on this,” he said.<\/p>\n
The Ukrainian leader also said that Russian forces were massing on the southern front line in the Zaporizhzhia region – one of four regions of Ukraine that Russia now claims as its own.<\/p>\n
“We can see that they continue transferring part of their troops from the Kursk direction to Zaporizhzhia.”<\/p>\n
Ukraine’s air force counted 614 aerial vehicles among Russia’s overnight attacks, 577 of which it said it had stopped.<\/p>\n
Foreign Minister Sybiha said this included a mix of drones, hypersonic, ballistic, and cruise missiles.<\/p>\n
“One of the missiles struck a major American electronics manufacturer in our westernmost region, leading to serious damage and casualties,” he wrote on social media on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The prospect of a trilateral meeting mediated by the US came after US President Donald Trump met Putin…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":361638,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-361637","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115065874284685542","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361637","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=361637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}