Ukrainian President VolodyMyr Zelenskyy On Saturday, the United States did not stop military assistance to Ukraine after recently by US Secretary of State, Mark Rubio, that he would focus on foreign aid for 90 days.
Zelensky did not specify whether humanitarian aid was made. Ukraine relies on the US on 40% of its military needs.
“I focused on military assistance; it was not stopped, thank God,” he said at a press conference with President Moldovan Mayan Sada.
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Both leaders met in Kiev on Saturday to discuss the needs of the energy region of Moldova, which is engaged in Russian Transnistration, which stopped natural gases on January 1 due to the decision of Ukraine to stop Russian gas transit. Ukraine said it could offer coal by the authorities to replenish the deficit.
The US's future will help Ukraine remain uncertain when President Trump begins his second term. The American leader has repeatedly stated that he would not allow the Russian invasion of Ukraine to start if he held the post, although he was president, because the struggle grew in the east of the country between Kiev and separatists agreed with Moscow, Putin send tens of thousands in 2022 Year.
On Thursday, Mr. Trump said Fox News that Zelenskyy had to conclude a deal with Putin to avoid conflict. A day earlier, Trump also threatened to impose fierce tariffs and sanctions on Russia if the agreement is not reached to finish fighting in Ukraine.
Rubio directed an order to all US diplomatic and consular reports, pausing to “all new financing commitments, waiting for consideration, for foreign aid programs funded in the department and through USAID.” A message was according to Executive order Mr. Trump signed on Monday to overestimate US foreign aid. It was not immediately clear how the order would affect the US foreign assistance to Ukraine and other countries.
The order received by CBS News states that the US government “is currently impossible to access sufficient information in one place to determine whether the foreign aid policy and interests supported by appropriations are not subjected, and with ' are effective and are in accordance with President Trump's foreign policy. ”
Speaking in Kiev on Saturday, Zelenskyy said he liked “good meetings and conversations with President Trump” and that he believed that the US leader would be successful in his willing to end the war.
“It can only be done with Ukraine, and otherwise it just won't work because Russia does not want to stop the war, and Ukraine does,” Zelensky said.
Grinding the oriental offensive
As Trump emphasizes the need for a rapid conclusion of a peaceful transaction, both Moscow and Kiev are looking for success in Battlefield to strengthen their negotiation positions before any future negotiations.
Over the past year, Russian forces are conducting an intensive campaign to strike a hole in defense of Ukraine in the Donetsk region and weaken Kiev's capture into the eastern parts of the country. A sustainable and expensive offensive forced Kiev to abandon a number of cities, villages and farms.
The Russian Ministry of Defense said on Friday that Russian troops fought at the Center for Strategically Important East East Novosilka, although it was impossible to confirm the lawsuit independently.
Elsewhere, three civilians were killed on Saturday, firing in the Russian region of Ukraine Kherson, said the governor, installed in Moscow by Vladimir Salda.
He called on the residents of Alesk, sitting close to the front in southern Ukraine, to stay in his homes or in the shelters of bombs.
Russia also attacked Ukraine with two missiles and 61 minor drones on the night. Ukrainian air defends beat both missiles and 46 drones, the Air Force said. Another 15 drones failed to achieve the goals of the Ukrainian countermers.
The collection of drones was harmful to the Kyiv, Cherkasy and Khmelnytskyi regions, with Ukrainian ambulances stated that five people had to be from the 9-storey quarter in the Ukrainian capital.
On Saturday, local authorities also struck the eastern part of Kharkiva Ukraine with the eastern Kharkiv region.
Droons aimed at the villages of the Shevchenko city, Kiev and Kholodnokhirsky, said Mayor Ihor Terehov.
Russia used the Molniya drone – an inexpensive weapon developed and recently deployed by Russia – in the area of Shevchenko, causing a fire. The mayor said the attacks thwarted water and electricity supplies in the city.
Terekhov said the number of casualties was still determined, and Governor Kharkiva Oleh Sinihubov said that three people, two women and a man were injured.