Ukraine-Russia war latest: Moscow ignores Trump calls for Zelensky-Putin summit and hits out at security talks
Russia has yet again ignored Donald Trump’s bid to hold a summit between Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky and said attempts to resolve security issues for Kyiv without Moscow’s participation was a “road to nowhere”.
“We cannot agree with the fact that now it is proposed to resolve questions of security, collective security, without the Russian Federation. This will not work,” Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov told a joint press conference after meeting Jordan’s foreign minister.
The US is reportedly eyeing Budapest as a location for a possible meeting between Zelensky and Putin.
“I am sure that in the West and above all in the United States they understand perfectly well that seriously discussing security issues without the Russian Federation is a utopia, it’s a road to nowhere,” he said.
This comes as European countries are reportedly pressing Trump to send fighter jets to Romania as part of security guarantees for Ukraine.
Military chiefs from several countries are discussing the use of American F-35s in Romania, where Nato is building its largest European airbase, to deter Russia from reinvading, according to The Times.
