Ukrainian leader ‘fully supports’ insistence before Trump-Putin summit that Kyiv must be involved in ‘path to peace’
The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, has welcomed a statement from European allies insisting that the “path to peace in Ukraine cannot be decided without Ukraine”, before a planned summit between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin.
In a joint statement issued on Saturday night, leaders from the UK, France, Italy, Germany, Poland and Finland, along with the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, stressed that Kyiv must be included in any peace talks with Russia.
The US president and his Russian counterpart are preparing to meet in Alaska on Friday. A White House official said on Saturday night that Trump was open to the inclusion of Zelenskyy in the talks but added that for now the summit remained bilateral.
Russia said on Sunday that one person had been killed and several apartments and an industrial facility had been damaged in a Ukrainian drone attack on the southern Russian region of Saratov. On Saturday, two people died and 16 were injured when a Russian drone hit a minibus in the suburbs of the Ukrainian city of Kherson, said the region’s governor, Oleksandr Prokudin. Two others died after a Russian drone struck their car in the Zaporizhzhia region, according to the regional governor, Ivan Fedorov.
