Kyiv, Ukraine – Russia has launched more than 100 drones of Shahed and Decy in Ukraine in night attacks, Ukrainian Air Force announced on Monday after Kremlin after Kremlin rejected unconditional 30-day truck He caused more than three years ago in the war. In the meantime, there was no answer from Kremlin to the Ukrainian President Challenge Volodymyr Zelenskyy To meet President Vladimir Putin with him for peacetime negotiations face to face in Turkey.

The United States and the European Governments have made a harmonized pressure to stop the fighting, which killed tens of thousands of soldiers on both sides, as well as more than 10,000 Ukrainian civilians. Russian invasive forces They took control of about fifth of Ukraine.

In a bump of diplomatic events over the weekend, Russia has avoided a proposal for a tribute submitted by American and European leaders, but instead offered to talk to Ukraine on Thursday. Kremlin did not say if Putin himself was ready to travel to Turkey to get involved in those conversations.

Ukraine, together with European allies, asked Russia to accept the truce from the beginning on Monday before holding peace negotiations. Moscow effectively rejected the proposal and instead called for direct negotiations in Istanbul.

President Trump insisted that Ukraine accepted the Russian offer. Zelenskyy went one step further and put pressure on Putin, offering a personal meeting between the leaders.

“Ukraine wants to end this war and do everything for it,” Zelenskyy said on Monday at the Telegram. “We expect appropriate steps from Russia.”

Zelenskyy is the first conversation with Pope Leo

The Ukrainian leader said he told Pope Leo XIV about peace efforts during his first telephone conversation with a new pontift.

Ukraine counts on the help of the Vatican in ensuring the return of thousands of children, which the Government of Kiev says has deported Russia, Zelenskyy said, adding that he urged Pope to visit Ukraine.

“Ukraine counts on the help of the Vatican to bring them home to their families,” Zelenskyy said of children in Post on x. “I informed the Pope about the agreement between Ukraine and our partners that, starting today, to start a completely and unconditional truce for at least 30 days. I also confirmed the willingness of Ukraine for further negotiations in any format, including direct conversations – the position we repeatedly emphasized.

In his first Sunday submission to the blessing as the Pope, Leo called true and righteous peace in Ukraine.

“In my heart I carry the suffering of a beloved Ukrainian people,” said the first leader of the Roman Catholic Church born in the US.

In 2022, in the early early months, Zelenskyy repeatedly invited a personal meeting with the Russian president, but was rejected, and eventually brought a decree that declared that negotiations with Putin had become impossible.

Putin and Zelenskyy met only once, in 2019. Mr. Trump says that “deep hatred” between the sides made it difficult to encourage peace efforts forward.