Zelensky says he will meet US president in Washington

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00:00First for you this hour then, Volodymyr Zelenskyy will meet Donald Trump in Washington after his

00:04summit with Vladimir Putin failed to produce a ceasefire or a peace agreement. The Ukrainian

00:09president confirming that next step after a phone call with Donald Trump and European leaders.

00:15Now the content of that call though suggests that the short summit Saturday is more of a victory

00:19for Vladimir Putin than anyone else. Trump reportedly telling the Russian, telling him

00:24that the Russian president does not want a ceasefire and prefers a comprehensive agreement.

00:30For more we're going to cross now to our correspondent in Kyiv, Emmanuel Chaz.

00:35Hi Emmanuel, so the summit didn't get the two sides any closer to peace which did not come as a surprise

00:41to Zelenskyy or to Ukrainians more broadly. What are they saying about this meeting?

00:50Well indeed this didn't come as a surprise even if of course it is a disappointment

00:54from the Ukrainian side. Remember yesterday Volodymyr Zelenskyy was saying that Ukraine

00:59was counting on America, meaning that he was hoping that there would be more pressure put

01:04on Vladimir Putin to gear towards a ceasefire, maybe also with additional sanctions waived

01:11out Vladimir Putin in case he wanted to continue the war. And none of this happened. On the contrary,

01:16Donald Trump basically said that it was up to Volodymyr Zelenskyy to now accept or not

01:22what Russia wanted from Ukraine and that hasn't changed in three and a half years of full scale

01:28invasion. It is a capitulation of Ukraine, the cession of territories and that's not something

01:32that Kyiv is ready to do. So Volodymyr Zelenskyy reacted quite a long time after the end of that

01:40meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin. He said that, I quote, Ukraine once again confirms that

01:47it is ready to work as productively as possible for the sake of peace. He also said that he spent

01:53over an hour on the phone with Donald Trump as well as in total an hour and a half with European

01:59leaders and that there would be more talks between Kyiv and its allies as to what the next step should

02:06be. Volodymyr Zelenskyy also highlighted that Ukraine was ready for a meeting with Donald Trump

02:13and Vladimir Putin in the near future. But in essence, nothing has changed for Ukraine. So there's

02:19disappointment here, but also people were not expecting their aggressor, the president of the

02:24aggressor country to change his stance yesterday because that's not what we are seeing happening on

02:30the ground anyway. Now, as you mentioned, the ground, Emmanuel, this is also probably going to

02:36be tough news to swallow for Ukrainian forces as well as the situation on the ground gets increasingly

02:42grueling. I mean, what's the latest then from the front lines? The war, of course, continues.

02:49The war continues. Nothing has changed there. Overnight, we've got over 80 drones that were launched at

02:55Ukraine, the bulk of which have been sought by air defense. But even just if we look at the

03:00areas, there's absolutely nothing that has changed on the Russian side. And there's also been

03:06bombings yesterday on the central market in Sumi city, bombings on civilian infrastructure in Dnipro

03:13and Zaporizhia to quote just the latest of such attacks. And on the front line, the Russian offensive

03:19continues, especially on the eastern front line. We have these intense pockets of fighting in

03:25Kostyantinivka in Pokrovsk with this apparent breach of the first defense line of the Ukrainian

03:31troops by some by some Russians. Ukraine said that it is handling the situation at the moment. And when

03:38we look at open source, we see that indeed it seems that this breach is not so significant as to pose a

03:45major threat to the Ukrainian army as of right now. But it is an evolving situation. Not worthy today is

03:54that Volodymyr Zelenskyy also said that Pokrovsk was now free of Russian presence in its city center. He

04:03said that Russian saboteurs, so that's isolated elements of the Russian army, have managed to make their way in the

04:09city a few days ago, but that they have not now all been eliminated. Those are his words. So there's also some

04:17relative successes recorded by the Ukrainian army on the front line. Emmanuel Chaz, our correspondent in Kyiv. Thank you very much for

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