Washington has set the deadline for Ukraine and Russia to end the nearly four-year-war by June and has offered to host talks between the two countries in Florida next week, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Saturday.
“Americans are proposing the parties end the war by the beginning of this summer and will probably put pressure on the parties precisely according to this schedule,” Zelenskiy told reporters. “They say that they want to do everything by June. And they will do everything to end the war. And they want a clear schedule of all events.”
Zelenskiy explained that if June deadline is not met, the White House will put pressure on both sides. He added that Moscow and Kyiv have confirmed their participation in the US-proposed peace talks to be held in Miami next week. The deadline follows the US-brokered trilateral peace talks between Russia, Ukraine and the US in Abu Dabi in the past weeks. The negotiations failed to yield any tangible results as Russia has reiterated its maximalist demands for Ukraine’s withdrawal from industrial eastern Donbas region, a condition that is rejected by Kyiv.
Zelenskiky’s remarks came after Russian air strikes on energy infrastructure forced nuclear power plants to cut output on Saturday. The attack involving 400 drones and up to 40 missiles, targeted the country’s energy grid, distribution networks and generation facilities, Zelenskiy wrote on X. The attack marked the second largest strike on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure since the start of 2026, the state energy transmission operator Ukrenergo reported. “As a result of missile strikes on key high-voltage substations that ensured the output of nuclear power units, all nuclear power plants in the territories under control were forced to reduce their load,” the company said in a statement.
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