Zelenskyy says will meet Trump subsequent week as Russia intensifies assaults

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy mentioned he would meet U.S. counterpart Donald Trump on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly subsequent week as Russia intensified assaults throughout his nation.

Russia carried out considered one of its largest aerial assaults in a single day, firing 40 missiles and a few 580 drones at Ukraine in a barrage that killed a minimum of three folks and wounded dozens, Mr. Zelenskyy mentioned Saturday (September 20, 2025).

Mr. Zelenskyy mentioned he would maintain “a gathering with the President of the United States”, including he would focus on safety ensures for Ukraine and sanctions on Russia through the talks with Mr. Trump.

Ukraine has insisted on Western-backed safety ensures to forestall future Russian assaults. Russian President Vladimir Putin has in the meantime warned that any Western troops in Ukraine could be unacceptable and legit targets.

A U.S.-led push for a fast finish to the struggle has stalled, and Russia successfully dominated out a gathering between Mr. Putin and Mr. Zelenskyy — one thing that Kyiv says is the one means in direction of peace.

“We count on sanctions if there isn’t any assembly between the leaders or, for instance, no ceasefire,” Mr. Zelenskyy mentioned in feedback launched by the Ukrainian presidency on Saturday (September 20, 2025).

“We are prepared for a gathering with Putin. I’ve spoken about this. Both bilateral and trilateral. He shouldn’t be prepared,” Mr. Zelenskyy added.

In Russia’s newest aerial assault of Ukraine, “a missile with cluster munitions straight struck an residence constructing” within the central metropolis of Dnipro, Mr. Zelenskyy mentioned earlier on social media.

He posted footage of vehicles and a constructing on hearth and rescuers carrying an individual to security amid rubble scattered close by.

In the Dnipropetrovsk area, the strikes killed one individual and wounded 26, with one man in a severe situation, Sergiy Lysak, the pinnacle of regional army administration, mentioned.

‘Intense’ preventing

The strikes come a day after three Russian fighter jets violated the airspace of Estonia — a NATO member on the alliance’s japanese flank — an allegation Moscow denied.

But it triggered fears within the West of a harmful new provocation from Moscow after Poland final week complained that round 20 Russian drones overflew its territory.

Mr. Zelenskyy repeated the decision for “joint options” to shoot down drones over Ukraine “along with different international locations”.

Russia, which has been chipping away at Ukrainian territory for months, introduced on Saturday (September 20, 2025) its troops had captured the village of Berezove within the Dnipropetrovsk area.

In the northeastern Kharkiv area, “intense actions” had been ongoing in the important thing space of Kupiansk, Mr. Zelenskyy mentioned, referring to a rail hub Ukraine recaptured in its 2022 offensive.

Russian officers in the meantime mentioned their forces had repelled “huge” Ukrainian assaults within the Volgograd and Rostov areas, whereas one individual was wounded within the close by area of Saratov.

The governor of Russia’s Samara area mentioned “gas and vitality amenities” had been focused, with out specifying the injury.

The Russian Defence Ministry mentioned on Saturday (September 20, 2025) its air defence alert programs “intercepted and destroyed” 149 Ukrainian drones in a single day, together with 27 over the Saratov area and 15 over the Samara area.

Three rounds of direct peace talks between Russia and Ukraine in Istanbul have did not yield something greater than large-scale prisoner exchanges.

Russia has maintained a collection of hardline calls for, together with that Ukraine totally cedes the japanese Donbas area — components of which it nonetheless controls.

Kyiv has rejected territorial concessions and desires European troops to be deployed to Ukraine as a peacekeeping pressure, one thing Moscow sees as unacceptable.