Ukraine war briefing: Trump to skip bilateral with Zelenskyy at G7, drone strikes continue
US President Donald Trump will not hold a bilateral meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the G7 summit, though they will attend a working session together. Meanwhile, Ukrainian drone attacks in Russia and occupied territories continue, and the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant has been reconnected after a nearly three-day outage.
US President Donald Trump will take part in a G7 working session with Volodymyr Zelenskyy in France on Tuesday, but will not hold a bilateral meeting with the Ukrainian leader, a senior US administration official said.
The G7 summit will be held in Evian in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region from 15 to 17 June. Trump is scheduled to hold bilateral meetings on the sidelines with French President Emmanuel Macron, as well as the leaders of Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt and India, the official said.
One of the senior US officials who briefed reporters on condition of anonymity about Trump's trip said Russian gains have "more or less stopped" and added: "We want the war to end as quickly as possible."
A Ukrainian drone attack killed one person and injured three in Russia's southern Krasnodar region on Saturday, local officials said. The governor of Krasnodar, Veniamin Kondratyev, said drone debris sparked a fire at a sea terminal.
Ukraine's general staff did not comment on the Krasnodar strike but said its forces had hit an oil preparation and pumping station overnight in Russia's Volgograd region, as well as Russian-occupied areas in Ukraine's Donetsk and Zaporizhzhia regions.
The attacks came after Zelenskyy said Ukrainian forces had struck several infrastructure sites deep inside Russia, including a military factory that he said supplied components for Russian drones and missiles.
Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant has been reconnected to the grid after repairs carried out under an IAEA-brokered localized ceasefire, the agency said. The outage marked the 19th time the plant has lost off-site power since the start of the war, after an attack on an electrical substation across the Dnipro River disconnected the Ferosplavna back-up power line late on Wednesday. Lasting almost three days, it was one of the site's longest power loss events, forcing the facility to rely on emergency diesel generators for the electricity needed to cool its six shutdown reactors.
