Trump and Zelenskyy could meet at UNGA
Secretary of State Marco Rubio mentioned President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy may meet subsequent week throughout the UN Normal Meeting.
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio mentioned Tuesday President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy may meet subsequent week on the sidelines of the U.N. Normal Meeting in New York Metropolis.
The assembly comes as NATO is seeing rising stress to extra aggressively counter Russia by imposing a no-fly zone over Ukraine as Poland seems to be to forestall extra Russian drones from coming into its airspace.
“President Trump [has had] a number of calls with Putin, a number of conferences with Zelenskyy, together with most likely subsequent week once more in New York,” Rubio informed reporters from Israel moments earlier than he departed for Qatar. “He is attempting to do every part potential to deliver [the war] to an finish.”
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy (L) meets with US President Donald Trump in Washington D.C., United States on Aug. 19, 2025. (Ukrainian Presidency / Handout/Anadolu through Getty Photos)
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“We have been working intently with our companions in Europe on safety ensures, as a result of that is going to be obligatory in any negotiated settlement,” he added. “And he’ll preserve attempting. If peace is feasible, he desires to realize it.”
Poland’s overseas minister, Radoslaw Sikorski, on Monday referred to as on NATO allies to implement a no-fly zone over Ukraine to higher shield not solely Ukrainians from Russia’s fixed aerial bombardments, however neighboring NATO allies that share borders with the war-torn nation.
“We as NATO and the EU could possibly be able to doing this, however it isn’t a call that Poland could make alone,” Sikorski informed German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine. “It may possibly solely be made with its allies.”
The transfer is unlikely to be approved by NATO, which has beforehand refused to implement a no-fly zone after the U.S., underneath President Joe Biden, turned down the request first made by Zelenskyy in 2022.
A member of the Polish military inspects a broken home, after Russian drones violated Polish airspace throughout an assault on Ukraine and a few had been shot down by Poland, in Wyryki, Lublin Voivodeship, Poland, Sept. 10, 2025. (Kacper Pempel/Reuters)
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“If Ukraine had been to ask us to shoot them down over its territory, that will be advantageous for us. In the event you ask me personally, we must always think about it,” Sikorski mentioned.
Russian officers have already made clear they’d view NATO strikes in opposition to Russian drones and missiles in assist of Ukraine as direct involvement within the conflict.
“The implementation of the provocative concept of Kyiv and different idiots about making a ‘no-fly zone over Ukraine’ and the power for NATO nations to shoot down our UAVs will imply just one factor – a conflict between NATO and Russia,” Deputy Chairman of Russia’s Safety Council Dmitry Medvedev mentioned in a Telegram put up on Monday.
Polish servicemen current F-16 fighter jets in Warsaw, Poland, throughout a navy parade on Polish Military Day on Aug. 15, 2024. (Dominika Zarzycka/SOPA Photos/LightRocket through Getty Photos)
Trump has seen rising stress at residence and from Western allies, together with Ukraine, to take a more durable stance in terms of countering Russian President Vladimir Putin. Trump has threatened on quite a few events to hit Moscow with sanctions, although he has but to make use of the monetary device since re-entering workplace regardless of a sequence of deadlines he issued on Putin having come and gone.
Rubio mentioned Trump could conclude sooner or later {that a} peace cope with Putin shouldn’t be potential, however informed reporters on Tuesday that “he isn’t there but.”
President Donald Trump walks with Russian President Vladimir Putin as they arrive at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska, on Aug. 15, 2025. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Photos)
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“The one chief on the planet that may discuss to each the Ukrainians, Europeans, and in addition to the Russians is President Trump,” Rubio mentioned. “He isn’t going to simply forfeit that position.
“If by some means he had been to disengage from this, or you recognize, sanction Russia and say ‘I am executed,’ then there is no one left on the planet that might probably mediate the top,” Rubio added. “Now perhaps we get to that time – we hope not, as a result of it is a actually unhealthy conflict and he desires it to finish.”
