Trump to Meet Zelenskyy at G7 Summit, but No Bilateral Meeting Planned
Quick Look
- Donald Trump will attend a G7 working session with Volodymyr Zelenskyy in France, but no bilateral meeting is scheduled.
- Meanwhile, Ukraine conducted drone attacks in Russia's Krasnodar and Volgograd regions, hitting a sea terminal and an oil station.
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Why It Matters
Donald Trump will attend a G7 summit in France where he will participate in a working session with Volodymyr Zelenskyy, though no bilateral meeting is planned. Ukraine has continued its campaign of strikes on Russian military and energy targets.
Donald Trump will take part in a G7 working session with Volodymyr Zelenskyy in France on Tuesday, but the US president won’t hold a bilateral meeting with his Ukrainian counterpart, a senior administration official said.
The G7 summit will take place in Evian in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region on 15-17 June, and Trump is scheduled to hold bilateral meetings on its sidelines with French President Emmanuel Macron, as well as the leaders of Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt and India, the official said.
One of the senior US officials who briefed reporters on condition of anonymity about Trump’s trip, said Russian gains have “more or less stopped” They added: “We want the war to end as quickly as possible.”
A Ukrainian drone attack killed one person and injured three in Russia’s southern Krasnodar region, local officials said Saturday, as part of Kyiv’s campaign of strikes on Russian military and energy targets.
The governor of Krasnodar, Veniamin Kondratyev, said drone debris sparked a fire at a sea terminal.
Ukraine’s general staff did not comment on the Krasnodar strike Saturday, but said that its forces had hit an oil preparation and pumping station overnight in Russia’s Volgograd region, as well as Russian-occupied areas in Ukraine’s Donetsk and Zaporizhzhia regions.
The attacks come after Zelenskyy said his Ukrainian forces had struck several infrastructure sites deep inside Russia, including a military factory that he said supplied components for Russian drones and missiles.
Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant has been reconnected to the grid after repairs carried out under an IAEA-brokered localised ceasefire, the agency said.
The outage marked the 19th time the plant has lost off-site power since the start of the war, after an attack on an electrical substation across the Dnipro River disconnected the Ferosplavna back-up power line late on Wednesday.
Lasting almost three days, it was one of the site’s longest power loss events, forcing the facility to rely on emergency diesel generators for the electricity it needs to cool its six shutdown reactors.
Open Questions
- Will Trump hold any informal discussions with Zelenskyy?
- What is the full extent of damage from the Ukrainian drone attacks?
