Ukraine-Russia war latest: Putin warns of escalation if peace isn’t achieved as Zelensky meets Trump
Vladimir Putin said Ukraine was in no hurry for peace and if it did not want to resolve the conflict peacefully, Moscow would accomplish all its goals by force.
The Russian president’s remarks, carried by state news agency TASS, followed a large Russian drone and missile attack on Ukraine.
Volodymyr Zelensky said the attack on Kyiv showed Putin “doesn’t want peace” ahead of the Ukrainian president’s crunch talks with his US counterpart Donald Trump in Florida on Sunday.
While Zelensky said a peace agreement was “90 per cent ready”, Trump said the Ukrainian leader “doesn’t have anything until I approve it”.
“So we’ll see what he’s got,” Trump told Politico.
Nearly a third of Ukraine’s capital was left without heating in sub-zero weather conditions on Saturday after Russian forces launched almost 500 drones, largely Shaheds, and 40 missiles in a large air strike.
Kyiv said the drones were targeting the capital and regions in the northeast and the south.
