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1585th day. Zelensky said he conveyed the peace proposal to “Putin’s friends.” To whom exactly is unclear. The day before, Putin met with Lukashenko

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Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky said that he had conveyed a new peace proposal to Russia. This follows from his address issued on June 26:

Russia must take this war with it from Ukraine - we do not need war. Ukraine has put forward proposals to key partners, and Putin’s friends have heard from us that a meeting is possible and the end of this war is possible. It is necessary for Russia to take this step towards peace.

Zelensky did not provide more detailed information. It is not entirely clear to whom exactly Ukraine conveyed its proposal. It is known that Vladimir Putin met with Alexander Lukashenko on June 26 at his residence in Valdai. They did not make any statements following the meeting, but the Kremlin reported that the parties, among other things, discussed issues related to regional security.

Lukashenko said on June 25 that he met in Minsk with representatives of Ukraine amid worsening relations with Kiev. Since April, Zelensky has been saying that Russia may try to drag Belarus into the war (The Wall Street Journal also wrote that Moscow has launched a campaign of pressure on Minsk).

In June, Zelensky demanded that Lukashenko remove repeaters along the Belarus-Ukraine border, which he said were being used to correct Russian strikes. He threatened that if Belarus did not do this in a week, then Ukraine itself would do it. By the end of the allotted period, Zelensky announced that the repeaters had stopped working.

Lukashenko said on June 25, commenting on relations with Ukraine, that “there is no need to create dust, there is no need to shout, there is no need to try to punch people in the face in Russian, and so on” - and called for acting “humanly” and reaching an agreement. He added that Belarus has a “peace-loving position” and does not want to fight.

In early June, it became known that Germany, France and Great Britain, together with Ukraine, were developing a plan to organize peace negotiations with Russia. At the same time, Zelensky published an open letter to Vladimir Putin, in which he invited the Russian president to meet in person to agree on ending the war. Putin called Zelensky’s letter “a piece of paper with elements of rudeness” and said that he saw no point in meeting.

At the end of June, Putin said that Russia was ready to negotiate with Ukraine, but on the conditions that he had already put forward. In particular, the Armed Forces of Ukraine must withdraw from territories in the Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson and Zaporozhye regions that the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation have not captured.

War in photographs. Strike at Zaporozhye

Reuters / Scanpix / LETA The Russian Armed Forces regularly attack the city of Zaporozhye. Russian drones once again attacked the city on June 26. According to local authorities, warehouses and an office building were damaged. The State Emergency Service said that a one-story building was partially destroyed, and the roof on an area of 800 square meters caught fire. As a result of the attack, according to rescuers, 15 people were injured, including one child.

Reuters / Scanpix / LETA Firefighters take cover during an air raid while working at the site of a Russian strike in Zaporozhye. The State Emergency Service of Ukraine says that Russian troops often attack rescuers when they are putting out fires.

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Anonymous reader (Bryansk) . Listen, lately I’ve been hearing “Yaroslavna’s cry” from Moscow. I see reports, read comments, my few friends call me with a complaint: look, there are explosions in Moscow!
Guys, really? I've been having explosions for four years. In Kharkov, Chernigov, Sumy, Odessa. Is it necessary?
War likes to return to where it came from. I’m not gloating, I’m surprised that Moscow and the region realize the fucked-up nature of the war in its fifth year.
Greetings from Bryansk.

"Jellyfish"