This handout photograph taken and released by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Service on October 11, 2025, shows Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky listening during a phone call with the US President while sitting at his office in Kyiv. HANDOUT / AFP
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky urged Donald Trump to broker peace in Ukraine like in "the Middle East" during a phone call on Saturday, October 11, saying if Trump could stop one war, "others can be stopped as well." The call came a day after Russia launched a large-scale attack on Ukraine's energy grid, knocking out power to parts of the capital Kyiv and nine other Ukrainian regions.
Diplomatic efforts to end Russia's invasion of Ukraine have slowed in recent months, in part because global attention shifted to Israel's two-year war with militant Palestinian group Hamas, Kyiv says. Trump, who announced the first phase of a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas on Wednesday, met Russian President Vladimir Putin for talks in August but failed to extract any kind of peace deal.
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