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Zelenskyy says a meeting with Trump over the war in Ukraine will happen ‘in the near future’The Associated PressKYIV, UkraineUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says a meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump will happen soon. This signals progress in talks to end the nearly four-year war between Russia and Ukraine. Zelenskyy mentioned Friday on X that a lot can be decided before the new year. He had a good conversation with U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff and Trump\u2019s son-in-law Jared Kushner. Trump has pushed for peace but conflicting demands by Moscow and Kyiv remain. One person was killed and three others wounded in a bomb attack on Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia region.<\/p>\n

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) \u2014 A meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump will happen \u201cin the near future,\u201d Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Friday, signaling progress in talks to end the nearly four-year Russia-Ukraine war<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are not losing a single day. We have agreed on a meeting at the highest level \u2014 with President Trump in the near future,\u201d Zelenskyy wrote on X. \u201cA lot can be decided before the New Year.”<\/p>\n

Zelenskyy’s comments came after he said Thursday that he had a \u201cgood conversation\u201d with U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, Trump\u2019s son-in-law.<\/p>\n

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Friday that the Kremlin had already been in contact with U.S. representatives since Russian presidential envoy Kirill Dmitriev met with U.S. envoys<\/a> in Florida over the weekend<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt was agreed upon to continue the dialogue,” he said.<\/p>\n

Trump has unleashed a diplomatic push<\/a> to end Russia’s all-out war, which began on Feb. 24, 2022, but his efforts have run into sharply conflicting demands<\/a> by Moscow and Kyiv.<\/p>\n

Zelenskyy said Tuesday that he would be willing to withdraw troops from Ukraine’s eastern industrial heartland as part of a plan to end the war, if Russia also pulls back and the area becomes a demilitarized zone monitored by international forces.<\/p>\n

Though Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Thursday that there had been \u201cslow but steady progress\u201d in the peace talks, Russia has given no indication that it will agree to any kind of withdrawal from land it has seized. <\/p>\n

In fact, Moscow has insisted that Ukraine relinquish the remaining territory it still holds in the Donbas \u2014 an ultimatum that Ukraine has rejected. Russia has captured most of Luhansk and about 70% of Donetsk \u2014 the two areas that make up the Donbas.<\/p>\n

On the ground, one person was killed and three others were wounded when a guided aerial bomb hit a house in Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia region, while six people were wounded in a missile strike on the city of Uman, local officials said Friday.<\/p>\n

Russian drone attacks on the city of Mykolaiv and its suburbs overnight into Friday left part of the city without power. Energy and port infrastructure were damaged by drones in the city of Odesa on the Black Sea.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Ukraine said that it struck a major Russian oil refinery on Thursday using U.K.-supplied Storm Shadow missiles.<\/p>\n

Ukraine\u2019s General Staff said that its forces hit the Novoshakhtinsk refinery in Russia\u2019s Rostov region. <\/p>\n

\u201cMultiple explosions were recorded. The target was hit,\u201d it wrote on Telegram.<\/p>\n

Rostov regional Gov. Yuri Slyusar said that a firefighter was wounded when extinguishing the fire.<\/p>\n

Ukraine\u2019s long-range drone strikes<\/a> on Russian refineries aim to deprive Moscow of the oil export revenue<\/a> it needs to pursue its full-scale invasion. Russia wants to cripple the Ukraine’s power grid<\/a>, seeking to deny civilians access to heat, light and running water in what Ukrainian officials say is an attempt to \u201cweaponize winter.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Follow the AP\u2019s coverage of the war at https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/russia-ukraine<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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