Volodymyr Zelensky wants war with Russia to end in 2025

Volodymyr Zelensky is in Germany, where he has secured the unconditional support of Chancellor Olaf Scholz. The Ukrainian president also declared that he wanted to end the war in 2025. While Russian strikes killed Ukrainian civilians in the Odessa region last night, Antony Blinken, head of American diplomacy, rubbed shoulders with his Russian counterpart as part of a regional summit in Laos. Le Figaro takes stock of the situation this Friday, October 11.

Zelensky wants to end the war in 2025

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Friday he wanted to see an end to the war with Russia in 2025, and therefore called from Berlin on Germany not to reduce its aid to kyiv as it had planned.

“Ukraine (…) wants a fair and quick end to this war (…) I would like to see this no later than next year, 2025”he said alongside German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, stressing that he is “very important for us that attendance does not drop next year”.

“Our support for Ukraine will not waver”

“Our support for Ukraine will not waver”assured German Chancellor Olaf Scholz while receiving Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday in Berlin.

“We will not accept peace dictated by Russia”also said the chancellor before talks with Mr. Zelensky, visiting the German capital as part of a whirlwind European tour aimed at obtaining more military support for his country in the face of the Russian invasion.

Four people killed in nighttime strikes in Odessa

Russian nighttime strikes in Ukraine killed four people, including a teenager, and injured ten others in the coastal region of Odessa in the south of the country, the regional governor announced Friday. “The enemy attacked the Odessa region with ballistic missiles. Four people were killed, including a teenager.said Oleg Kiper on Telegram. The Russian attack “destroyed a two-story residential building”, “people were trapped under the rubble”lamented the manager.

Among the victims are a 43-year-old woman, a 22-year-old man and a 16-year-old girl, according to Mr. Kiper, who said that nine people were currently hospitalized, including four in critical condition. «grave». A video from the affected site shows rescuers extracting bodies from the rubble, by the light of flashlights.

Russian forces have recently intensified attacks on southern Ukraine, including damaging civilian ships at ports in the Odessa region. On Wednesday, eight people were killed in a Russian strike on a civilian container ship in the region. Ukraine was one of the world’s largest grain exporters before Russia’s February 2022 invasion, but repeated attacks on its ports and storage facilities have sharply reduced its capacity.

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Asean Summit: Blinken “heard nothing new” from Lavrov

American Secretary of State Antony Blinken assured Friday that he did not “heard nothing new” from Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, who like him attended a regional summit in Laos. “I listened to him. I can’t say if he listened to me, but I didn’t hear anything new.”Mr. Blinken told reporters. The head of American diplomacy clarified that he had had no direct contact with his counterpart, in what constituted one of their rare moments shared in the same room.

“I think that every country in this room, without speaking on their own behalf, has made it clear that this aggression must stop, not only because it is an aggression against the Ukrainian people, but also because it is an aggression against the principles which are at the heart of the international system”he developed. “It is striking that so many countries on the other side of the world, in the Indo-Pacific region, are very interested in what is happening in Ukraine, because they know that If a country is allowed to act with impunity and commit acts of aggression, it is a signal to potential aggressors around the world.continued Mr. Blinken.

Despite Mr. Blinken’s remarks about consensus at the summit, Washington is increasingly concerned about China’s support for Russia in the form of high-tech industrial exports that do not constitute direct military support. India, which maintains cordial relations with the United States, has also angered Washington by refusing to join Western sanctions against Moscow.

President Joe Biden and Vice-President Kamala Harris, Democratic candidate for the November presidential election, have promised to sustainably support Ukraine and not to negotiate with Russia behind Kiev’s back. Their position contrasts sharply with that of Republican candidate Donald Trump, who pledged to quickly end the Ukrainian conflict. His aides suggested he was threatening to withhold aid to Ukraine to force it to make territorial concessions.