U.S. President Donald Trump meets with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the course of the eightieth United Nations Normal Meeting, in New York Metropolis, New York, U.S., Sept. 23, 2025.
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A gathering with U.S. President Donald Trump will occur “within the close to future,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy mentioned Friday, signaling progress in talks to finish the almost four-year conflict between Russia and Ukraine.
“We aren’t dropping a single day. We’ve agreed on a gathering on the highest stage – with President Trump within the close to future,” Zelenskyy wrote on X.
“Loads might be determined earlier than the New 12 months,” he added.
Zelenskyy’s announcement got here after he mentioned Thursday he had a “good dialog” with U.S. particular envoy Steve Witkoff and Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner.
Trump has unleashed a diplomatic push to finish the conflict, however his efforts have run into sharply conflicting calls for by Moscow and Kyiv.
Zelenskyy mentioned Tuesday he could be prepared to withdraw troops from the nation’s japanese industrial heartland as a part of a plan to finish the conflict, if Moscow additionally pulls again and the world turns into a demilitarized zone monitored by worldwide forces.
Although Russian International Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova mentioned Thursday that there had been “sluggish however regular progress” within the peace talks, Russia has given no indication that it’ll comply with any sort of withdrawal from land it has seized.
Actually, Moscow has insisted that Ukraine relinquish the remaining territory it nonetheless holds within the Donbas — an ultimatum that Ukraine has rejected. Russia has captured most of Luhansk and about 70% of Donetsk — the 2 areas that make up the Donbas.
On the bottom, one individual was killed and three others wounded when a guided aerial bomb hit a home in Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia area, whereas six individuals have been wounded in a missile strike on the town of Uman, native officers mentioned Friday.
Russian drone assaults on the town of Mykolaiv and its suburbs in a single day into Friday left a part of the town with out energy. Power and port infrastructure have been broken by drones within the metropolis of Odesa on the Black Sea.
In the meantime, Ukraine mentioned it struck a serious Russian oil refinery Thursday utilizing British-supplied Storm Shadow missiles.
Ukraine’s Normal Employees mentioned its forces hit the Novoshakhtinsk refinery in Russia’s Rostov area. “A number of explosions have been recorded. The goal was hit,” it wrote on Telegram.
Rostov regional Gov. Yuri Slyusar mentioned a firefighter was wounded when extinguishing the hearth.
Ukraine’s long-range drone strikes on Russian refineries intention to deprive Moscow of the oil export income it must pursue its full-scale invasion. Russia needs to cripple the Ukrainian energy grid, in search of to disclaim civilians entry to warmth, gentle and working water in what Kyiv officers say is an try and “weaponize winter.”
