Kyiv earlier warned against any Putin-Trump peace talks on the near three-year war without its and European participation.
KYIV - Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday warned that his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin wanted to"manipulate" Donald Trump, after the Kremlin chief praised the US leader and said he was ready for talks with him.
Putin had earlier praised Trump as a"smart" leader who might have prevented the conflict from starting. Praising Trump as a"smart" and"pragmatic" man, Putin also repeated the Republican's unfounded claim that he won the US presidential election against Joe Biden in 2020. "If they don't settle this war soon, like almost immediately, I'm going to put massive tariffs on Russia, and massive taxes, and also big sanctions," the Republican said during a Fox News interview on Thursday.
Russian aerial attacks near Kyiv killed three people and wounded several others, Ukrainian officials said Friday, while Ukraine fired 120 drones at least 12 Russian regions, including the capital Moscow. Fragments of a drone had struck a 10-storey residential building after the head of the region said a private home had also been hit, it added.
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