Russia on Wednesday shot down President Trump’s claim that the Kremlin had already agreed to some concessions on ending the war in Ukraine — as Moscow pummeled innocent Ukrainians with fresh drone strikes overnight.
Multiple Russian officials insisted it was too premature to speak about accepting any peace plan and that Moscow wouldn’t agree to anything that didn’t fully meet its demands.
“There can be no talk of any concessions or surrender of our approaches to the key aspects of resolving the problems facing us, including in the context of the special operation [in Ukraine],” Sergei Ryabkov, a Russian deputy foreign minister, said, according to The Times.
It comes after Trump on Tuesday said US negotiators had made progress in its discussions with Russia and Ukraine — and that the Kremlin had agreed to some concessions.
Trump stopped short of detailing what those concessions were.
Asked if a peace deal was close, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Wednesday: “It’s premature to say that yet.”
Meanwhile, Russian forces staged a mass drone attack on the southeastern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia late on Tuesday that left 19 people wounded.
The attack triggered fires and severely damaged scores of apartment buildings, setting fires, injuring 19 people and badly damaging buildings and vehicles, the regional governor, Ivan Fedorov, said.
“A rescue operation is currently underway at 12 locations,” Fedorov said in a video posted online.
“The maximum number of units from the State Emergency Services, national police and our medical teams has been deployed.”
Images on social media showed firefighters battling blazes at high-rise apartment buildings and gutted vehicles on city streets.
Ukraine’s air force, for its part, said it downed 72 out of 90 drones and two ballistic missiles launched by Russia in a country-wide attack overnight.
With Post wires
