Putin ruled out the move, saying he saw “no point” in meeting Zelensky until a possible peace deal had been agreed. The Ukrainian president told Sky News on Sunday evening he had also met with Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich in Kyiv to pass on a message to Putin. “You are fighting against us on our territory,” Zelensky said of his message to Abramovich, who is sanctioned by the UK and European Union over his ties to the Kremlin following Russia’s invasion. “We will not leave
and we will not go out from our territory, no we will not give you victory,” he said, adding he had reiterated his request to meet Putin face-to-face. Kyiv has been asking its Western allies for more ammunition deliveries for its air defences as Ukraine endures daily Russian strikes. Zelensky is seeking ways for the allies to further pressure Russia to end the fighting. Earlier on Sunday, the Ukrainian president wrote on X that he would be meeting with Britain’s King Charles III on Monday.
Read moreUkraine launches fresh drone attack on St. Petersburg region on final day of ‘Russian Davos’ Nuclear site targeted On Sunday, Russia fired waves of drones and other munitions at Ukraine, with one of the attacks damaging a nuclear storage facility near the Chernobyl disaster site, Ukrainian officials said. Radiation levels at the facility remained within normal limits following the attack, although its fuel reception building was “partially destroyed”, according to Ukraine’s nuclear energy operator, Energoatom. Moscow and Kyiv have intensified drone strikes on each
other in recent months, as US-led diplomatic efforts to end the war remain stalled and sidetracked by the conflict in the Middle East. Zelensky, in an earlier online post, said Russia had used an Iranian-designed Shahed drone to “hit one of the buildings of the Centralised Spent Fuel Storage Facility” in the Chernobyl exclusion zone.
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