The Ukrainian president said the United States had also proposed new trilateral talks in Miami, which he said Ukraine would participate in.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the United States has given Ukraine and Russia a June deadline to reach an agreement to end nearly four years of war.

“The Americans propose that both sides end the war by early this summer and will probably put pressure on the parties exactly in line with this timetable,” Zelensky told reporters in Kiev on Friday, his remarks not made until Saturday.

He added that President Donald Trump’s administration insisted on a clear timetable for all activities and proposed holding the next round of trilateral talks in the United States next week, possibly in Miami. Ukraine has confirmed it will attend.

When Trump took office, he boasted that he would end the war within 24 hours. But more than 12 months later, any peaceful solution remains elusive, with critics accusing Trump of being manipulated by Russian President Vladimir Putin into favoring the Kremlin’s war narrative and maximalist demands.

The new deadline was set after U.S.-brokered trilateral talks between Russia and Ukraine in Abu Dhabi. These talks have yielded results Little progressboth sides insist on opposite demands. Kremlin demands Ukraine withdraw troops from heavily industrialized east donbas The fiercest fighting continues in the region consisting of Donetsk and Luhansk. Kyiv firmly rejected this condition. In addition, Ukraine’s constitution prohibits the cession of eastern territories claimed by Russia.

But both parties agree Transferred 157 prisoners of warOfficials from the Ukrainian and U.S. and Russian defense ministries confirmed that the exchange had taken place on February 5. Zelensky added on Saturday that prisoner exchanges with Russia would continue under the deal.

U.S. envoy Steve Witkopf, who leads the U.S. mediation team with Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, said Thursday that while “there is still a lot of work to be done” in peace talks, the prisoner exchange showed that “continued diplomatic engagement is delivering tangible results and advancing efforts to end the war in Ukraine.”

U.S. officials did not say what action they would take if the deadline is not met.

“Russia attacks Ukraine’s energy sector with drones and missiles”

Although both sides are at the negotiating table, Kiev believes Russia continues to prioritize war.

Zelensky said on Saturday that Russia launched “more than 400 drones and about 40 missiles” overnight, targeting Ukraine’s energy sector.

He said Russia could choose true diplomacy every day but continues to launch new strikes.

“It is vital that all those who support trilateral negotiations respond. Moscow must be denied the ability to use the cold as leverage against Ukraine,” he wrote in a post on X.

Russian negotiator Kirill Dmitriev told state media on Thursday that talks were moving in a “good, positive direction.”

Earlier this week, Ukrainian officials said Russia had attacked energy infrastructure 217 times this year. Minister of Energy of Ukraine, Denis Schmihalsaid 200 emergency personnel were working to restore power to 1,100 buildings in Kiev alone.

Since mid-January, Russia has targeted power stations, gas pipelines and cables, leaving hundreds of thousands without power at various locations.

On January 29, Trump said Putin had agreed to halt attacks on energy infrastructure for a week during cold weather conditions, which the Kremlin confirmed. Nonetheless, on February 3, Russia launched a The largest attacks on Kyiv and Kharkiv, Deploy 71 missiles and 450 drones.

Ukrainian Air Force spokesman Yurii Ihnat said only 38 missiles were shot down because many of them were ballistic missiles. Russia claims it targets drone storage sites as well as defense companies and their energy supplies.