Sarah RinfordBBC correspondent in southeast and eastern Europe

The UK Defense Minister says that the United Kingdom and its allies are ready to support Ukraine before negotiations to end the war as well as to secure a peace agreement in the end.
On the eve of a meeting of the highest level in Paris, John Hilli BBC in Kiev told Kiev that Ukraine’s allies “will help make the sky safe, make the seas safe, and to secure the earth”, as soon as a peace deal was concluded.
But a moment ago, Russian President Vladimir Putin had conveyed a challenging message from China, pledging that his invasion on a large scale could continue.
Healy suggested that there was a Blosster in Putin’s words, insisting that Russia was pressure. He also praised US President Donald Trump, who said he “brought Putin to talks” and “did not close any options”, despite the extensive criticism of the warm welcome that Trump gave the Russian leader last month in Alaska.
Late Tuesday, Trump said he was “disappointed” in Putin, but he said this before. He also threatened to punish the Russian leader for a clear rejection of ending the war – or even the interview of Ukraine President Voludmir Zelinsky of peace talks.
When asked Wednesday if the war in Ukraine could end soon, Putin said, “There is a specific light at the end of the tunnel.”
He said: “It seems to me that if the proper logic prevails, it will be possible to agree to an acceptable solution to end this conflict.”
He continued to tell Russia’s maximum demands as usual – including the authorities in Kiev to end what he called discrimination against Ethnic Russians – one of the allegations mentioned as an excuse for the full invasion of the neighbor in February 2022.
As for Zelinski’s interview, Putin seemed to make fun of the same idea – which Trump said was ready.
“I have never ruled out the possibility of such a meeting. But is there any point? Let’s see,” Putin said in Beijing.
He said that Zelinski can always go to Moscow to see him, an “unacceptable” idea, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine was quick to refer.
Last week, France President Emmanuel Macron suggested that Putin was “playing” Trump.
But John Healy confirmed that the US president “did not rule out any other measure, including economic measures, for greater pressure on Putin.”
“We are in the coalition of those wishing, and countries like the United Kingdom are ready to put additional economic pressure on Putin. We are ready to provide additional assistance to Ukraine so that they can keep the fight.
“For this reason, we passed today to Melille, a billion pounds ($ 1.24 billion) of the seized Russian assets, and recycled it in military aid and the group to Ukraine. If you want, Putin’s dirty money returns with interest.”
On Thursday, Macron will host a meeting of the so -called alleged coalition for those wishing – a group of Ukraine allies, committed to the implementation of any peace agreement.
A source in élysée, Macron’s office, said that the group is now ready to provide security guarantees for Ukraine, just waiting for our assertion that it will be the final back.
The proposed deal includes continuing to train and supply the Ukraine army.
It is also visible that the European forces that are deployed in Ukraine – in unspecified numbers – to deter any future of the Russian aggression – an indication that Ukraine can rely on its allies “full solidarity and … commitment.”
This publishing will need a ceasefire, which is the responsibility that “falls on Americans negotiating with the Russians.”
John Healy refused to provide details, although pressure on him, “because that would make Putin more wise.”
The German government is also reducing the expectations of any major advertisement at a meeting on Thursday.
Currently, like Italy and other coalition members, Berlin has ruled out sending soldiers to Ukraine to the police of any future peace on the ground.
A German government spokesman told the BBC that the priority at the present time is to make Russia agree to a ceasefire – which Putin has constantly rejected.
President Trump pressed Putin for this during their summit in Alaska last month, then he appeared to be martyred under the pretext of Putin that finding a final deal would be a better way to get out of the conflict.

Meanwhile, Russian air attacks intensified in both frequency and scale. On Wednesday night, more than 500 aircraft were launched from 500 Russian and 24 Cruise missiles in Ukraine.
Throughout the country, as civilians are protected on the lower floors or on the metro, the air defense defender went to work.
As usual, the government did not say whether any military targets were damaged, but the influence of civilians is often destroyed.
Last week, a Russian missile achieved a bloc of apartments in Kiev killing 22 people, including four children, in one of the bloodiest strikes since Russia has widely invaded.
There is now a pile of games stuffed in the rubble and photographs.
Among the broken stairs, the population appears with plants reserved with a bowl and bags of dust -covered clothes that somehow survived. A few steps away, others stand and stare in the debris.
A teenage girl said that she left the bombs shelter that morning because she was full of smoke after hitting the first missile. Then she fell again across the road and killed her sister.
Ihor Maharynsky survived because he was outside the city that night. His wife, Natalia, was on her apartment on the fifth floor and did not reach the shelter. He had to get to know her body in the morgue.
“What kind of strategic goal is here?” A student, and I looked around a parking lot and a technical college nearby. “There is nothing.”
At the present time, IHOR sees no possibility at all with Russia.
Like many Ukrainians, he is angry by Donald Trump for the red carpet in Alaska last month for Vladimir Putin.
“Peace speaks with Putin? With this ****?” IHOR wanted to know, with a series of shells. “Peaceful people die.”
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