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Russian President Putin ‘is decidedly not preparing for a ceasefire’, says Zelenskyy, arsenic US, and Russian leaders scheduled to conscionable successful Alaska.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Vladimir Putin is not preparing for a ceasefire but is readying his troops for “new violative operations” successful Ukraine, adjacent arsenic the Russian person is acceptable to conscionable US President Donald Trump for peace talks successful Alaska.
Zelenskyy said reports from Ukrainian quality and subject commanders bespeak that Putin intends to contiguous his gathering connected Friday with Trump arsenic “a personal victory and past proceed acting precisely arsenic before” successful the warfare connected Ukraine.
“He is decidedly not preparing for a ceasefire oregon an extremity to the war,” Zelenskyy said successful a video connection posted to his societal media relationship connected Monday night.
“There is nary denotation whatsoever that the Russians person received signals to hole for a post-war situation,” helium said.
“On the contrary, they are redeploying their troops and forces successful ways that suggest preparations for caller violative operations. If idiosyncratic is preparing for peace, this is not what helium does,” helium added.
Today, determination was a study from the quality and subject bid connected what Putin is counting connected and what helium is really preparing for, including subject preparations. He is decidedly not preparing for a ceasefire oregon an extremity to the war. Putin is determined lone to contiguous a… pic.twitter.com/T3sqQg0ltT
— Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) August 11, 2025
Ukraine’s subject spokesperson for the confederate front-line sector, Vladyslav Voloshyn, told the Reuters quality bureau connected Monday that Russia was moving immoderate subject units successful the Zaporizhia portion for further assaults.
Earlier connected Monday, Zelenskyy warned that immoderate concessions to Russia would not transportation it to halt warring successful Ukraine.
“Russia refuses to halt the killings, and therefore, indispensable not person immoderate rewards oregon benefits,” Zelenskyy wrote connected X.
“Concessions bash not transportation a killer,” helium said.
The Ukrainian leader’s warnings travel successful beforehand of Trump’s scheduled gathering with Putin successful Alaska connected Friday, and aft the US president said that Kyiv would person to cede onshore to extremity Russia’s warfare successful Ukraine, a proposition that Ukraine has firmly rejected.
“There’ll beryllium immoderate onshore swapping going on. I cognize that done Russia and done conversations with everybody; to the good, for the bully of Ukraine. Good stuff, not atrocious stuff. Also, immoderate atrocious worldly for both,” Trump told a quality league successful Washington, DC, connected Monday.
Trump besides said helium would cognize “probably successful the archetypal 2 minutes” of gathering with Putin, whether advancement was possible.
“I’m going to beryllium telling him, ‘You’ve got to extremity this war,'” Trump said, adding that a aboriginal gathering with Putin could see Zelenskyy.
United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney besides said connected Monday that a bid woody for Ukraine indispensable impact Kyiv and not beryllium imposed upon it.
“Both leaders underscored that Ukraine’s aboriginal indispensable beryllium 1 of freedom, sovereignty, and self-determination,” a spokesperson for Starmer said.
Zelenskyy besides said helium had spoken to Canada’s Carney and told him that the “Russians simply privation to bargain time, not extremity the war”.
“The concern connected the battlefield and Russia’s wicked strikes connected civilian infrastructure and mean radical beryllium this clearly,” Zelenskyy said successful a station connected societal media.
US-based deliberation vessel the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), which monitors the struggle successful Ukraine connected a regular basis, said successful a caller study that Moscow does not look to beryllium preparing the Russian nationalist for accepting “a colony abbreviated of a afloat triumph successful Ukraine”.
That assessment, the ISW said, was based connected “the deficiency of alteration successful nationalist Kremlin messaging, successful operation with ongoing speculation that Putin is looking to ‘outplay’ the West”.
European leaders and Zelenskyy program to talk with Trump successful beforehand of his gathering with Putin arsenic fears equine that Washington whitethorn dictate unfavourable bid presumption to Ukraine aft the Alaska summit.
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