Russia recently announced that peace talks with Ukraine are currently in a "suspended" state. In this regard, Ukrainian President Zelensky has a clear attitude. He believes that Russian President Putin has always been committed to fully control Ukraine and has a pessimistic stance on the prospect of restarting peace talks.
At the same time, U.S. President Trump issued a warning that his patience with Putin is gradually exhausted.
Just this week, several Russian drones entered Polish airspace and were shot down, an incident further exacerbating tensions in Europe's security situation.
Afterward, NATO announced that it would strengthen its defense deployment on the Eastern Front to deal with potential security threats.
Russia and its core ally Belarus launched a large-scale joint military exercise, an action that has added new obstacles to the regional diplomatic process.
The exercise is extensive, covering not only areas near the border between Poland and Lithuania, but also involves the Baltic Sea and the Barents Sea, which aroused high vigilance from neighboring countries.
Although Trump has been actively promoting face-to-face talks between Russia and Ukraine and even planned to host Putin in Alaska, these efforts have not made substantial progress in ending the war since Russia launched a special military operation against Ukraine in February 2022.
Kremlin spokesman Peskov said in response to the progress of the negotiations: "Our negotiators can still maintain communication through existing channels, but in terms of the current situation, a more accurate statement is that the negotiations have been suspended."
Zelensky called on Western allies to be alert to Putin at a meeting in Kiev, pointing out: "Putin's goal is to control the entire Ukraine. Now that Russia's war machine is in full swing, the war cannot be stopped unless it can be forced to fundamentally change his personal goals."
Previously, although Trump repeatedly threatened to impose further sanctions if Russia did not stop fire, he never fulfilled his promise. This attitude made Ukraine deeply frustrated.
"My patience is exhausted, but negotiations require joint efforts from both sides," Trump said in an interview with Fox TV. "Zelensky was not ready before Putin was willing to take action.
Later Zelensky was ready, and Putin began to hesitate again. Now that Zelensky is ready, Putin is still worried, we must take decisive action. ”
Ukraine made it clear that it would not make concessions on territorial issues to reach a peace agreement, and there were voices in the country urging Zelensky to hold a summit with Putin.
But so far, Putin has refused such meetings and said that any Western country that sends peacekeeping forces to Ukraine without his approval may become a target of Russia.
Regarding the nature of the drone incident, Polish Prime Minister Tusk made it clear that this was by no means an accident and directly refuted Trump's speculation that "this airspace invasion may be an unintentional move."
Russia denied targeting Poland, and said that Poland failed to provide evidence to prove that the drone involved belonged to Russia.
Before the emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council requested by Poland, NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutt announced that NATO will strengthen its defense forces in the east wing, and Denmark, France, Britain and Germany will provide military support to relevant regions in the next few days.
In addition, the UK has announced a new round of sanctions against Russia, targeting Russia's arms suppliers, military equipment manufacturers and the "shadow fleet" used to evade sanctions; the EU has also decided to extend the sanctions on more than 2,500 Russian officials and entities for six months in order to put pressure on Russia.
At present, the joint military exercise between Russia and Belarus has officially started, and heavy combat vehicles, helicopters, naval ships and other equipment have been invested in the exercise.
Russia and Belarus both deny that the exercise poses a threat to other countries, but Poland still decided to deploy about 40,000 soldiers to the Belarusian border during the exercise to strengthen border defense and respond to possible emergencies.
