Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,119
Zelenskyy said Ukraine would support the proposal to halt attacks on energy infrastructure but added that he hoped to speak with Trump for more details regarding Trump’s phone call with Putin before Ukraine gives a final answer.
Zelenskyy also accused the Kremlin of not intending to end its invasion of Ukraine and said Russia’s “whole game is to weaken” Ukraine. “They are not ready even for the first step, which is a ceasefire,” Zelenskyy said.
Democratic lawmakers in the US called on Trump to restore funding for a previously government-sponsored initiative led by Yale University’s Humanitarian Research Lab (Yale HRL) that tracked the mass deportation of Ukrainian children. They also claimed that data from the repository may have been permanently deleted, which would result in “devastating consequences”.
Reuters news agency reported that Ukraine had bought 100 million cubic metres of US liquefied natural gas (LNG) via an agreement between Ukraine’s state energy firm Naftogaz and Poland’s Orlen.
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said that the United Kingdom and France’s plan to send peacekeepers to Ukraine is likely ineffective. Instead, Meloni believes a better solution would be to extend NATO’s mutual defence umbrella.
President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen announced a new joint task force with Ukraine that would streamline the procurement of military supplies and consolidate support.
Source: Al Jazeera