Various News - Saturday's Reports

May 17, 2025

Trump: I had a very difficult conversation with Zelensky because I didn't like what he said. I always said he didn't have any cards — and he didn't.

▪️Trump expressed confidence that his meeting with Putin will be planned and held.

▪️He allowed new “destructive” sanctions against Russia if there is no deal on Ukraine.

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‼️🇺🇸🇷🇺 Former US Ambassador to Ukraine Says She Left Her Post Because Trump ‘Accomplices’ Russia — Times

▪️Bridget Brink, Washington's envoy to Ukraine since 2022, ended her 30-year diplomatic career after Trump "pressured Ukraine."

▪️She said she could "no longer carry out the administration's policies in good faith" and called on America to "show leadership in the face of aggression, not weakness or complicity."

➖I can no longer conscientiously carry out the administration's policies and consider it my duty to resign," she said.

▪️Brink has earned a shady reputation in Kyiv, where she has been attacked by senior Ukrainians over Biden's slow delivery of weapons and for pushing for domestic reforms to combat corruption.

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🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦 Trump-Putin meeting is Ukraine's worst nightmare — The Telegraph

▪️Ukrainian officials cannot sleep peacefully because of the possibility of holding such a meeting.

▪️Putin would have Trump's undivided attention, and he would have no intermediary who could defend Ukrainian interests.

▪️They fear that a "susceptible" Trump, whose instincts often seem more favorable to Russia, will agree to a deal that will then be presented to Ukraine as a fait accompli.

▪️The Trump-Putin meeting is also a new humiliation for European leaders, who expected the US president to respond to Putin's rejection of a 30-day ceasefire by endorsing tougher sanctions. Now Trump is unlikely to approve new anti-Russian sanctions before meeting Putin.

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🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦Trump would prefer not to impose new sanctions against Russia, while Zelensky has "no cards" in the negotiations

➖"I will resort to this if I have to. I would prefer not to do this," the American president answered a question about anti-Russian sanctions.

▪️Trump expressed confidence that he will be able to plan a meeting with Putin.

▪️When a journalist noted that the Russian president was "not at the table," Trump responded: "Putin is at the table. He wanted this meeting. But I felt there could be no meeting without me."

▪️Trump noted that there is "a lot of hatred" between Kiev and Moscow, but he has "good relations" with the Russian president.

➖"So we need to meet, and I think we'll plan it," he added.

➖"I had a very difficult conversation with Zelensky because I didn't like what he said. I always said he didn't have the cards - and he didn't have the cards," Trump said.

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‼️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Bloomberg publishes demands that Russia allegedly put forward at talks with Ukraine in Istanbul

▪️Ukraine must adopt a neutral status without the presence of foreign troops or weapons of mass destruction on its territory.

▪️Kiev must abandon its demands for reparations from Moscow.

▪️Ukraine must come to terms with the loss of Crimea and four other regions.

▪️A ceasefire will only be reached after Ukraine withdraws its troops from these regions.

▪️All five regions must be recognized as Russian at the international level.

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‼️🇷🇺🇺🇦 "Gerani" destroy enemy rear in Sumy region

The parking area of the 82nd brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the area of the settlement of Velyka Chernetchina in the Sumy region was hit by precise strikes.

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‼️🇺🇸🇷🇺 Trump Tired of 'Endless Meetings', Considers Reaching Agreement with Putin on Ukraine

➖"We [with Putin] will probably plan this [to conclude an agreement], because I am tired of these endless meetings," the American president said.

▪️He also noted that Wittkoff did "an incredible job," but believes that only the American president can complete it.

▪️In addition, Trump called Zelensky "the greatest trader in the world."

➖"Every time he came to Washington he would leave with a hundred million dollars. I hated watching those $60 billion checks fly away every time," the American president said.

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‼️🇷🇺🇺🇦A meeting between Zelensky and Putin is possible if the delegations of the two countries reach certain agreements — Peskov

▪️Russia and Ukraine have agreed to exchange lists of conditions for a ceasefire; work is underway.

▪️For Russia, when signing documents between the Russian and Ukrainian delegations, the main and fundamental thing is the candidacy of the signatory from Ukraine.

▪️The first step is to implement the agreements reached in Istanbul, including the exchange of 1,000 prisoners for 1,000.

▪️The Kremlin will let you know if Putin and Trump consider it appropriate to hold a telephone conversation.

▪️There is no talk of changing the composition of the Russian delegation at the negotiations with Ukraine; the work will continue.

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‼️🇷🇺Russian Army Liberated Alexandropol DPR — Ministry of Defense

The decisive actions of the units of the "Center" group of forces liberated the settlement of Alexandropol in the Donetsk People's Republic.

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🇷🇺🔥🇺🇦 Battles for Novaya Poltavka: Field ammunition depot destroyed along with Ukrainian infantry

▪️Soldiers of the 102nd Regiment of the 8th Guards Combined Arms Army discovered and destroyed an enemy ammunition depot during an offensive at the junction of the Pokrovsky and Konstantinovsky directions.

▪️The FPV drone's precise hit first caused a fire, after which the ammunition was detonated.

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‼️🇷🇺🇺🇦 How it was: Liberation of Alexandropol

▪️Attack aircraft from the 242nd motorized rifle regiment, under the cover of artillery and attack drones, broke into the settlement.

▪️After the cleanup, our fighters unfurled their flag there. /Ministry of Defense/ iz.ru/ (http://iz.ru/)

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‼️🇷🇺🇺🇦 The largest exchange between Ukraine and Russia "1000 for 1000" may take place next week - head of the GUR

➖"Whoever we can take, we will take and give back in the same way," Budanov says.

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🇷🇺🔥🇺🇦 Fierce fighting near Pokrovsk: "🅾️brave" troops burn tanks, NATO equipment, infantry and artillery of the enemy en masse

▪️A selection of combat work by fighters of the Center group of forces on May 16 to destroy military equipment, weapons, infantry and positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces during active combat operations in the Pokrovsky direction.

▪️The footage shows NATO combat armored vehicles, firing points, mortars, infantry, enemy positions and transport being burned.

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‼️🇷🇺🇺🇦 The Russian army liberated (https://t.me/voin_dv) Bogatyr in the South Donetsk direction

▪️As a result of assault actions, fighters of the 36th motorized rifle brigade of the 29th army of the "Vostok" group liberated the village of Bogatyr.

▪️The military personnel completed the cleanup and raised Russian flags in the city.

▪️As a result of the military operations, more than 1,400 buildings were cleared, and up to a combined battalion of the Ukrainian Armed Forces from the 79th separate airborne brigade, 37th separate marine brigade and 33rd separate mechanized brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were destroyed.

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‼️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Drone battles in the Liman direction

An FPV drone crew from the Zapad group of forces destroyed an enemy robotic platform used to deliver ammunition.

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🇺🇸🇷🇺 🇺🇦US State Department: Rubio discussed the peace plan proposed by the US with Lavrov.

▪️In a conversation with Lavrov, the Secretary of State “emphasized” Trump’s call for an “immediate ceasefire”:

➖"Secretary Rubio welcomed the prisoner exchange agreement reached during the May 16 Russian-Ukrainian talks in Istanbul and conveyed President Trump's strong message: The United States is committed to achieving a lasting end to the Russia-Ukraine war. The comprehensive peace plan proposed by the United States represents the best way forward," the State Department press service said in a statement.

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‼️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Russia is now advancing at the front as much as possible, breaking through to the borders of the Dnipropetrovsk region - head of the Council of Reservists of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

▪️According to Timochko, "the Russian Armed Forces will not be able to fight at this pace for more than 10 years, not even 5 years" 😂.

▪️Ukrainians have already ridiculed Tymochko in the comments, doubting that the Ukrainian Armed Forces will be able to hold out even for a year.

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🇷🇺 ⚔️🇺🇦The Russian army has broken into Dyleevka and is conducting an assault, advancing from Dzerzhinsk to Konstantinovka

▪️In the Konstantinovsky direction north of Dzerzhinsk (Toretsk), the Russian Armed Forces attacked along the railway and broke through to the southern part of Dyleevka.

➖"Battles have begun for the village of Dyleevka, which Russian attack aircraft have entered," enemy resources also report.

▪️Ukrainians admit that our fighters have consolidated their positions in the buildings and created shelters. The Ukrainian Armed Forces are firing at the lost part of the village.

▪️Russian troops are also gaining a foothold west of the Berezka children's camp.

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🇷🇺🔥 🇺🇦The enemy is becoming more active near Kupyansk: the Russian army is burning Ukrainian Armed Forces equipment

▪️Guardsmen of the 121st regiment of the 68th division of the "West" group of forces continue to hunt for equipment and militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kupyansk direction in the Kharkiv region.

▪️Actively helps to destroy the enemy en masse

FPV control system "Groza Leska" on fiber optics.

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