Volodymyr Zelensky says he is ready to quit as Ukraine’s president if it means Kyiv would be admitted to NATO military alliance. He has faced fierce criticism from the new US administration and said he wants to meet Donald Trump before the US president meets his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin. The Kremlin hailed dialogue between Trump and Putin — whom spokesman Dmitry Peskov called two \”extraordinary\” presidents — as \”promising\” Putin, in his own comments on the eve of the anniversary of his \”special military operation\” on Ukraine, said \”God\” and \”fate\” were behind his \”mission\” to defend Russia.Moscow’s army launched a record 267 attack drones at Ukraine overnight, Kyiv’s air force said. The move shook the West’s policy to isolate the Kremlin and infuriated Ukrainian and European leaders as they were not invited to the talks in Saudi Arabia. The United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres meanswhile called for a Ukraine peace deal that respects the country’s \”territorial integrity\”
