Trump’s Change of Heart: A Surprise Meeting with Zelensky on the Horizon

First, Donald Trump ranted violently against Ukraine and its President Zelensky. Now there should be a meeting between the two. All the information in the news blog.

5:54 am: Faced with Germany’s skepticism about the use of long-range Western weapons on Russian territory, the Slovenian government warns against making hasty decisions. “Usually the best tactic is not to say in advance that there are some issues that are off the table,” said Prime Minister Robert Golob on the sidelines of the United Nations general debate in New York.

“It’s a difficult issue, but I think at the moment all the options should be discussed and then the one that is most suitable for the current situation should be chosen,” said Golob in response to a question about the use of a long cruise . missiles, the Western countries of Ukraine have provided or could provide. So far, Germany and the USA in particular have been slowing down on this issue.

At the same time, Golob emphasized that he “fully respects that each country that has such weapons will make its own decision – and we will try to respect that.” Recently, Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) ruled out that very precise weapons would be delivered to Ukraine in the future, regardless of the decisions of the alliance partners.

4:44 am: SPD foreign politician Michael Roth has called for more European arms aid for Ukraine. “The major European countries in particular have to do much more militarily to ensure that Ukraine remains a free and democratic country,” Roth told the “Tagesspiegel”. “Now it is important to finally mobilize all forces to put Ukraine in the best possible starting point for possible negotiations,” he added.

“If you want to end the war as soon as possible, you have to give Ukraine what it needs,” argued the chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the Bundestag. Defensiveness and diplomacy are two sides of the same coin, Roth said. This is also the central message of the Ukrainian victory plan: “Only if Putin is convinced that victory over Ukraine is impossible will Russia be ready to negotiate.”

US President Joe Biden’s announcement of a Ukrainian summit in Germany shows that “continued military support for Ukraine remains a top priority,” Roth emphasized. However, it cannot be expected in the long term that the USA will ensure peace and security in Europe.

2:44 am: Federal Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock calls on Iran to stop all support for Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine and to stop the transfer of ballistic missiles and drones. This is what the Foreign Office writes on platform X Baerbock spoke to her Iranian counterpart, Abbas Araktschi, on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York.

1.30am: A high-ranking adviser to the Prime Minister of Hungary, Viktor Orbán, has caused criticism with a statement about Ukraine’s response to Russia’s war of aggression. Prime Minister Balasz Orbán’s political director insulted thousands of Hungarian freedom fighters with his statement that Hungary had learned a “warning” from the bloody suppression of the popular uprising of 1956, opposition leader Péter Magyar wrote on the online service Facebook on Thursday .

The criticism referred to a statement on Wednesday by government adviser Orbán, who is not related to the Hungarian prime minister. Referring to Hungary’s popular uprising against the Soviet Union in 1956, Orbán said in a video published by the pro-government newspaper Mandiner that Hungary would “probably” not go to war, as Ukrainian President Volodymyr did Selinksyj two and a half years ago. because this is “irresponsible”. “It is clear that he led his country into a defensive war, many people died and territories were lost,” Orbán said.

Kiev’s actions are the right and sovereign decision of Ukraine, the adviser told the head of government. “You can do that. But if someone had asked us, we wouldn’t have given him advice. In ’56 we learned that we have to be very careful with Hungarian lives.”

1.10 am: Russian forces repeatedly shelled the settlement of Tomyna Balka west of the Ukrainian-controlled city of Kherson on Thursday, regional governor Prokrudin reported. A woman was killed and another person was injured, he said on Telegram.