Trump wants to meet Selenskyj-and negotiate about raw materials deal

US President Donald Trump has indicated an early meeting with the Ukrainian head of state Wolodymyr Selenskyj. “I will probably meet President Selenskyj next week,” said Trump in the White House at a meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba. The Republican again emphasized that there were rare minerals in Ukraine. He had recently made help for Ukraine to access their raw materials. Selenskyj was ready to cooperate.

To the place of a possible meeting, Trump said that it could be Washington. “I’m not going there,” said the Republican with a view of Kiev. Selenskyj was looking forward to working with Trump.

Trump continued to say that he would “probably” speak to Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin. “I want this war to be ended primarily for one reason: so many people are killed,” said Trump about the Russian attack war in Ukraine. He complained that the United States invested more money in Ukraine than Europe. “And yet it affects Europe much more than us,” he said.

“One of the things we strive with President Selenskyj is the security of your assets. You have assets underground, rare earths and other things, but mainly rare earth,” said Trump about his demand for raw materials from Ukraine. Selenskyj had made it clear that he wanted to show himself recognizable for western help with rare earths and other mineral resources.

Selenskyj indirectly confirmed the upcoming meeting with Trump. “The coming weeks can be very busy in diplomacy, and we will do everything necessary to make this time effectively and productively,” he wrote on X and Telegram. “We very much appreciate working with President Trump,” he said. Selenskyj also announced that meetings of Ukrainian and American teams were also planned to work out details. “A solid, permanent peace can go closer.”

Ukraine is also ready to cooperate with the USA with the minerals and rare earths mentioned by Trump, “in the interest of security”. Ukraine has one of the largest reserves of strategic resources in Europe, “and the protection of Ukraine also means the protection of these resources.”

Meanwhile, the fighting on the front in eastern Ukraine continues. The Russian army stated that he had conquered the eastern Ukrainian mining town of Torezk. The Ministry of Defense in Moscow near Telegram made a corresponding message, with the authority describing the city with the name Derschinsk, which was still from Soviet period. Felix Derschinski (Feliks Dzierzynski) was the first head of the Soviet secret service.

The Ukrainian army denied the loss. “The fights are ongoing in the urban area,” said the spokesman, which is responsible for the front section, Nasar Woloschyn, the Ukrainian public service broadcasting. Accordingly, Ukrainian troops continue to resist and add strong losses to the opponent.

However, Ukrainian military observers had only had the outskirts of the city for a long time and assumed an early case for the city. The Ukrainian military blog “Deepstate” wrote that Russian troops had advanced at Torezk. Torezk is located in the Donetsk area and had over 30,000 inhabitants before the war. Only a few dozen are said to have endured in the ruins.

In the night of Saturday, some multi -storey buildings were damaged in the southern Russian city of Rostow on Don, as governor Juri Sljusar announced near Telegram. 68 residents would have had to leave a high -rise building in a district and six people a company building in another district. However, there were no injuries.

There was also drone alarm over the Ukrainian capital Kyiv during the night. An enemy drone is moving towards the city center, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said on his telegram channel. There were initially no reports of damage or injuries.

In the fighting for the West Russian region of Kursk, the North Korean soldiers returned to the front after a “forced break”. Selenskyj announced in his report on the situation on the fronts. The North Korean soldiers, who had been withdrawn from the foremost combat lines for several days for unnamed reasons, were back on the side of the Russian troops for new attacks. Russians and North Koreans suffered high losses. “We are talking about hundreds of Russian and North Korean soldiers.” Selenskyj’s information could not be checked independently.

Pyongyang had sent almost 12,000 North Korean soldiers to Russia to support the allied in the fight against Ukraine. According to estimates of western observers, the North Koreans suffered serious losses in the fights for Kursk, so that they had to be pulled out of the foremost lines to reorganize.

According to parliamentary President Ruslan Stefantschuk, there will be and may not be and may be in Ukraine during the Russian war of aggression. In conversation with the Funke media group, he led Russia and Belarus as examples that not all elections were an “expression of democracy”. “According to the Ukrainian constitution, no elections can be held during the war law,” emphasized Stefantschuk.

Front soldiers, for example, should be allowed to choose, otherwise “the elections would not be fair”. In addition, millions of Ukrainians lived outside the country. Other Ukrainians live in the occupied areas. “You too have the right to give up your vote.” In addition, no international election observers could come to the country during the war. “When war law ends, there will be new elections,” promised Stefantschuk.

Kremlin chief Putin recently spoke off legitimacy as the head of state of Ukraine with the argument that the term of the Ukrainians had long since expired. Accordingly, he did not want to negotiate directly with Selenskyj, at best delegate representatives to talks, Putin let know.

Selenskyj has been President of Ukraine since 2019. Officially, his term in May 2024, but he remains in office because of the law law.