Donald Trump’s claims to end the war between Ukraine and Russia in 24 hours “are very dangerous”, judges Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
In an interview broadcast Friday on a British channel, Mr. Zelensky invited the former president and favorite for the Republican nomination for the upcoming November 2024 election in Kyiv, but on the condition that Mr. Trump respects his promise .
“Donald Trump, I invite you to Ukraine, to Kyiv if you can stop the war for 24 hours. That would be enough to come here,” Mr. Zelensky said.
A spokesperson for Donald Trump’s organization, Steven Cheung, did not respond to a request for comment.
The Ukrainian leader is concerned about any unilateral American measure that does not take into account his country’s point of view. He particularly pointed out the lack of precision in Mr. Trump’s so-called “peace plan”.
Mr. Zelensky described the former president’s speech as “very dangerous.” He is particularly concerned that a solution negotiated by Mr. Trump would require significant concessions from Ukraine to Russia.
“He will make his decisions without even talking to both sides, without talking to us,” he commented. If he said it publicly, it’s a bit maddening. I’ve seen a lot of casualties already, but it’s what Mr. Trump said that stresses me out. »
Mr. Zelensky added that even if he and his people did not accept Mr. Trump’s plan – of which no one knows the slightest modalities – the former president would still seek to impose it. “And that worries me a little,” he said.
Mines in Zaporizhia
The director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Rafael Grossi, warned that mines had been installed again around the Russian-occupied Zaporizhia nuclear power plant, only a month after an international team of inspectors reported that they had been removed.
Mr. Grossi recalled that the presence of these mines between the interior and exterior fences of the plant “is incompatible with the security requirements of the IAEA,” according to a press release on the agency’s website.
Petro Kotin, the president of Energoatom, the state company that exploits nuclear energy in Ukraine, said the mine installation “is another crime” of the Russian army which has occupied the region since the beginning of the invasion.
“ [La situation] will remain fragile and dangerous as long as the Russians remain there,” he declared.
Separately, Russians bombed Huliapole, a town in southern Ukraine, injuring one person, local governor Yuriy Malashko said.
In Russia, a drone fell on an oil pipeline outside the city of Belgorod, said Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov, who attributed responsibility to Ukraine. No one would have been injured.