UK and allies ready to return Ukraine before and after a peaceful deal

The UK and its allies are ready to support Ukraine before negotiating the war, as well as to provide a possible peace agreement, says the UK Defense Minister.

On the eve of the higher -level meeting in Paris, John Hill told the BBC in Kiev that Ukraine’s allies “will help make the sky safe, make seas safe and provide the earth” as soon as a peaceful transaction was reached.

But a minute earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin conveyed a message from China, promising that his full -scale invasion could continue.

Haley suggested that Putin’s words had Blaster, insisting that Russia was under pressure. He also praised US President Donald Trump, who, he said, “brought Putin to negotiations” and “did not close any options”, despite the broad criticism of a warm greeting that Trump gave the Russian leader in Alaska last month.

Already on Tuesday, Trump said he was “disappointed” in Putin, but he said it before. He also threatened to punish the Russian leader for a clear refusal to stop the war – or even to meet with the President of Ukraine Volodimir Zelensky for peace talks.

Asked on Wednesday, whether the war in Ukraine will end soon, Putin said: “There is a certain light at the end of the tunnel.”

“It seems to me that if common sense reigns, one can agree on an acceptable decision to stop this conflict,” he said before threatening, “If not, we will have to consider all our tasks.”

He continued to list Russia’s maximum demands, as usual, including for the authorities in Kiev to complete what he called discrimination against ethnic Russians – one of the accusations mentioned as a reason for a full -scale neighbor, which he launched in February 2022.

As for the meeting with Zelensky, Putin seemed to mock the idea itself – to which Trump said he was ready.

“I have never ruled out the possibility of such a meeting. But is it sense? Let’s see,” Putin said in Beijing.

He said Zelensky could always go to Moscow to see him – “deliberately unacceptable”, the Ukrainian Foreign Minister quickly noted.

Last week, French President Emmanuel Macron suggested that Putin “played” Trump.

But John Hill emphasized that the US president “did not rule out any further action, including economic measures to put more pressure on Putin.”

“We are eagerly in the coalition, peoples such as the UK, are ready to put additional economic pressure on Putin. We are ready to provide additional assistance to Ukraine so that they can support the fight.

“That is why we handed over 1 billion pounds ($ 1.24 billion) confiscated Russian assets, recycled into military assistance and a set to Ukraine. If you like, Putin’s dirty money returned with interest.”

On Thursday, Macron will meet this so -called coalition “Enough of the Group of the Allies of Ukraine, which seeks to execute any peaceful transaction.

A source at the macron office in Elysée said the group is ready to provide security guarantees for Ukraine, just waiting for us confirming that it will act as a final back stop.

The proposed transaction includes the continuation of training and supply of its own army of Ukraine.

It also stipulates that European troops located in Ukraine – in an uncertain number – to restrain any future of Russian aggression – a signal that Ukraine can count on its allies “full solidarity and … commitment,” the Ellis source said.

Such a deployment will need a ceasefire, which “falls in talks with the Russians.”

John Hill refused to give details, despite the pressure, “because it will only make Putin a bizarre.”

The German government also plays the expectations of any big message at the meeting on Thursday.

So far, as Italy and other coalition members, Berlin has excluded the sending of soldiers to Ukraine to the police in any future peace on earth.

A spokesman for the German government said the BBC that Russia was currently a priority to agree to ceasefire – which Putin has invariably rejected.

President Trump pressed Putin for this during the Alaska summit last month, after which he brought Putin’s argument that finding the final deal would be the best way out of the conflict.

At the same time, Russia’s air attacks intensified both frequency and scale. On Wednesday night, more than Russian 500 drones and 24 cruise missiles were launched in Ukraine.

Across the country, when civilians leaned in the basements or in the subway, the air defense weapons went to work.

As usual, the government did not say whether there were any military purposes, but the influence on civilians is often devastating.

Last week, the Russian rocket hit the apartment block in Kiev, killing 22 people, including four children, in one of the most deadly strikes after a full -scale invasion of Russia.

Now in ruins and photos there are a bunch of fashionable toys.

With a broken stairs, residents come out with houseplants and bags with dust covered, somehow survived. A few steps, others stand and look at the wreckage.

The teenage girl said she left shelter in the bomb that morning, because she was filled with smoke after the first missile strike. Then the second landed across the road, and her sister died.

Ihor Maharinsky survived only because he was outside the city that night. His wife Natalia was in her apartment on the fifth floor and did not reached the shelter. He had to identify her body in the morgues.

“What is the strategic goal here?” he demanded, looking back at the parking lot and technical college nearby. “Nothing.”

Now Hichor does not see that there is no prospect with Russia.

And, like many Ukrainians, he is angry Donald Trump for ejection of a red carpet on Alaska last month for Vladimir Putin.

“Peaceful negotiations with Putin? With this ****?” Hichor wanted to know with a line of explicit. “Peaceful people die.”