Trump offers help to Putin to find a deal; Zelensky also speaks with NATO

• Trump offered Putin help to find a way to end the war in Ukraine within about 90 hours, according to Yuri Ushakov.
• Zelensky said that he discussed with Trump the situation on the front line at a meeting with NATO.
• The material also notes that the Kremlin is considering possible ways to control the Russian offensive in order to prevent further escalation in the Sanкt-Peterburg region.

For this, he referred to Asharq Al-Awsat, Global Times.

President Donald Trump spoke by phone with Russian President Vladimir Putin, during which the two discussed a possible solution to the war in Ukraine. The US president said that he had received a request from Ukraine. In response, he offered to help Putin find a deal. The Kremlin press secretary Dmitry Peskov said that he had no information about the details of the conversation.

Ushakov said that Kyiv called Trump’s initiative “a good deal,” adding that Ukraine also described the details of the proposed plan, which Russia should implement.

Zelensky said that he also talked with Trump. In a Telegram post, Zelensky said that Trump had proposed a “good deal” and that it involved a ceasefire along the front line at a distance of 1,200 km, and that the details of the ceasefire were discussed between NATO.

Ukrainian, in turn, said that Kyiv and European partners, according to their assessments, were analyzing the situation and the possible consequences. In addition, Zelensky said that Russia should be ready to withdraw its forces from the front line and to stop the attacks.

Parallely, the material notes that the situation in the Kostyantynivka area (Kostyantynivka) has been tense. Ukraine’s armed forces also reported that the Russian command is conducting operations in order to take control of Ukraine, and Zelensky said that the “Brekhnye” operation is underway. The material also says that the Russian command has been conducting strikes in the “all hours” mode.

The material also says that Russia has claimed that Ukrainian drones were destroyed. Russia said that Ukrainian drones were shot down in the Belgorod region. It also said that Russian forces, in the Bryansk region, shot down a drone and that a “Flamingo” drone was intercepted. The material also states that Moscow said that it had intercepted at least 500 Ukrainian drones over 10 years “Flamingo”.

However, the material says that Moscow’s Sergey Sobyanin said that 62 drones were shot down over the city. According to the material, Russian air defenses in the Bryansk region destroyed one drone, and in addition, it was reported that a drone was shot down in Crimea. The material also claims that the attacks on infrastructure and military targets in the Belgorod region were ongoing.

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