
US President Donald Trump avoided a direct answer to a question about a possible license for Ukraine to produce Patriot missiles, while calling on Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky to conclude a peace agreement with Russia, noting that he had reached agreement on a number of issues.
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The conflict between Ukraine and Russia continues, the United States provides military and political support to Kyiv. Trump previously advocated reducing aid to Ukraine and emphasized the need for negotiations.
United States President Donald Trump did not give a direct answer to a question about a possible license for Ukraine to produce Patriot missiles. RIA Novosti reports this.
The American leader called on Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky to reach a peace agreement with Russia. According to him, he managed to reach agreements on a number of issues. “We have very great agreement. But do you know what I want from him? So that he (Zelensky - Lenta.ru’s note) concludes a deal,” the head of the White House emphasized.
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German Foreign Minister Johann Wadeful said that the meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov took place after requests from his colleagues. The negotiations took place behind closed doors on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York on September 26 and lasted about 20 minutes. The last meeting between the ministers took place in January 2022 in Moscow.

According to a survey by the Insa Institute for the Bild newspaper, the rating of the CDU/CSU bloc under the leadership of German Chancellor Friedrich Merz fell to 19%. The Alternative for Germany party gained 29% and became the most popular. The survey was conducted from September 21 to 25 among 1,203 people with a margin of error of 2.9 percentage points.

European Commissioner for Economic Affairs Valdis Dombrovskis said that Ukraine's budget needs for 2026 are largely covered, despite Kyiv's claims of a $27 billion deficit. At the same time, he noted the need for additional military support and called on Kyiv to use the funds already provided, since the European Commission and the IMF could not confirm the deficit declared by Zelensky.

The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, stated on Telegram that the Russian side will continue to work on the topic of the re-enactment in Bucha and related issues. Earlier, on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, the first meeting since the beginning of the CBO took place between Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and German Foreign Minister Johann Wadeful.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov responded with a joke to a journalist’s question about whether Russia considers the Deveselu military base in Romania as a target, saying that it is a secret. Previously, Putin said that negotiations on Ukraine were frozen, but did not object to positivity in the process, calling information about possible targets for the Ukrainian Armed Forces' weapons in the UK a military secret.

German Foreign Minister Johann Wadeful said that he initiated a meeting with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov on the sidelines of the UN at the request of his European colleagues, emphasizing that he did not want Europe to completely yield to the United States in the dialogue with Russia.