Zelensky hopes that the Israel-Iran conflict will not reduce aid to Ukraine and announces a new exchange of prisoners-Liberation
The calculation is not good. « The climbing of the situation in the Middle East will result in an increase in aid (Western, editor’s note) in Israel », Potentially at the expense of Ukraine, worried the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky. “We would like help from Ukraine does not decrease for this reason. The last time, it was a factor that slowed down the aid to Ukraine ”, he added on the occasion of a press conference carried out on Friday but broadcast on Saturday June 14, in reaction missile exchanges between Iran and Israel.
According to Zelensky, European aid to Ukraine has also decreased against the backdrop of partial disengagement Initiated by Donald Trump, who claims to want to find an outcome to the conflict as quickly as possible. « The coalition of volunteers is slowing down (…) This situation has shown that Europe has not yet decided for itself if it will be fully alongside Ukraine without the United States », insisted the Ukrainian president. « When they (Europeans) have energyly joined the coalition of volunteers, they found that this energy did not exist in the United States », he continued, recognizing that « Doubts are starting to arise » within the European allies of Ukraine.
In a message on X published this Saturday, the Ukrainian leader also called the United States to « Change your » with Russia, while Donald Trump restored contacts with Moscow After his return to the White House. “Currently, the tone of dialogue between the United States and Russia seems too conciliatory. Let’s be honest: it will not stop Putin ”, pleaded Zelensky, calling for strengthening sanctions towards Moscow.
The belligerent parties also announced this Saturday A new exchange of prisoners of war Between Ukraine and Russia, the fourth in a week, as part of the agreements concluded in Istanbul earlier this month. « We continue to get our compatriots out of Russian captivity », Helved the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky on social networks. « »In accordance with Russian-Ukrainian agreements (…) Another group of Russian soldiers has been repatriated from the territories controlled by the Kyiv regime ”, For his part, the Russian Defense Ministry on Telegram said.
Ukraine has also repatriated 1,200 new bodies given by Russia, a new stage in an agreement concluded during recent negotiations between the belligerents in Istanbul, an Ukrainian government structure in charge of the file announced this Saturday.
Volodymyr Zelensky finally assured during his press conference that Russian offensive in the Soumy region (North) had been stopped, even though Russia claimed the capture of a new locality the day before.
According to the Ukrainian leader, an incursion of his troops in the Russian region of Koursk led the Russian forces to split in two their contingent which attacks the Soumy region and « Has prevented them from advancing more deeply » towards the eponymous regional capital.
Russian forces are currently about twenty kilometers from the city of Soumy. On Saturday, they also claimed the capture of the locality of Zeleny Kout in the Donetsk region (East). The Ukrainian President also denied that the forces of Moscow entered that of Dnipropetrovsk (center-east), which they announced to attack in early June.
