shoulder most of the burden<\/a> of guaranteeing Ukraine\u2019s security. Russia insists there must be no troop presence from NATO countries deployed in Ukraine, and instead says it should be one of the guarantors of Ukraine\u2019s security.<\/p>\nIn comments to reporters, Peskov described Trump\u2019s efforts to end the war as \u201cvery important\u201d and said this month\u2019s US-Russia presidential summit in Alaska had been \u201cvery substantive, constructive and useful\u201d, adding that Moscow hoped the efforts would continue.<\/p>\n
But while security guarantees were \u201cone of the most important topics\u201d in the negotiations, Russia did not believe it was helpful to discuss them in public, he said.<\/p>\n
Zelenskyy calls for action<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Zelenskyy said in a post on X on Wednesday that his teams were \u201caccelerating the process of defining the details\u201d of future multilateral security guarantees for Ukraine, and said the time was right to organise leaders\u2019 discussions on the key priorities and timelines around the arrangements.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur teams are actively preparing the architecture of strong and multilateral security guarantees for Ukraine, with everyone involved \u2013 Europeans, Americans, and our other partners in the Coalition of the Willing,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cMilitary commanders, defense ministers, and security advisors \u2013 at different levels, we are preparing the components of future security,\u201d he added. \u201cIt is already time to organise the format for the leaders\u2019 discussions to determine the key priorities and timelines.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said Russia is \u201ccurrently sending negative signals regarding meetings and further developments\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Russians will only react to real pressure in response to all this. Pressure is needed. We are counting on it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ukraine and the US have been pushing for a face-to-face meeting between the Russian and Ukrainian leaders to advance peace negotiations, with the US president suggesting he would consider further sanctions on Moscow amid concerns Russia was stalling.<\/p>\n
Energy infrastructure attacked<\/p>\n
The latest comments came after Ukraine was hit by another barrage of drone attacks overnight, targeting critical energy infrastructure, and the Kremlin claimed it had captured a village in Ukraine\u2019s eastern Donetsk region.<\/p>\n
In a post on X, Zelenskyy said 100,000 households in three regions \u2013 Poltava, Sumy and Chernihiv \u2013 had been left without electricity following the wave of attacks by nearly 100 drones that included strikes on energy facilities.<\/p>\n
Ukraine\u2019s Ministry of Energy said in a statement on Telegram that the attacks had targeted infrastructure in six regions, significantly damaging gas transport infrastructure in Poltava and hitting equipment at a key substation in Sumy, the Reuters news agency reported.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe regard the Russian attacks as a continuation of the Russian Federation\u2019s deliberate policy of destroying Ukraine\u2019s civilian infrastructure ahead of the heating season,\u201d the ministry said.<\/p>\n
Power had since been restored in Poltava, Governor Volodymyr Kohut said in a statement on Telegram.<\/p>\n
Russia has stepped up attacks on Ukrainian gas production and import infrastructure in recent weeks, which it says are legitimate targets because they help Ukraine\u2019s war effort.<\/p>\n
The Ukrainian air force said it had downed 74 drones out of 95 launched by Russia overnight, with 21 drones striking nine locations around the country, Reuters reported.<\/p>\n
Zelenskyy said the overnight wave of attacks \u2013 which had been \u201caimed specifically at civilian infrastructure\u201d \u2013 had also struck a school in the Kharkiv region, and a residential apartment building in Kherson, resulting in injuries.<\/p>\n
He said the ongoing attacks reiterated the need for the global community to do more to pressure Russia to stop its war.<\/p>\n
\u201cNew steps are needed to increase pressure on Russia to stop the attacks and to ensure real security guarantees.\u201d<\/p>\n
The AFP news agency reported that at least two people had been killed in recent Russian attacks. It said two farm workers were killed by Russian artillery fire in Novovorontsovka, a village in the Kherson region, on Wednesday morning, according to Governor Oleksandr Prokudin.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Russia\u2019s Ministry of Defence claimed its forces had taken control of the village of Ozarianivka in Ukraine\u2019s Donetsk region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Russia is opposed to European proposals on security guarantees for Ukraine and will not allow the presence of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377944,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[2000,299,12,332,7661,657],"class_list":{"0":"post-377943","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-news","11":"tag-russia","12":"tag-russia-ukraine-war","13":"tag-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115101432902911623","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377943","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=377943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}